Sphaeridium lunatum Fabricius, 1792

Prokin, A. A. & Sazhnev, A. S., 2019, New records of beetles from families Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Hydraenidae, Helophoridae, Hydrophilidae, Scirtidae and Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from the North Caucasus, Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15 (1), pp. 49-53 : 51

Sphaeridium lunatum Fabricius, 1792

Material. NOR: 1 ex., Irafskiy Distr. , “Chifandzar” Sphagnum peat bog, 42°55′08″N / 43°30′50″E, ground trap, 18– 19.09.2018 (A.S. Sazhnev) .

Distribution. Algeria, Europe, Belarus, Ukraine, north and center of the European part of Russia, Armenia, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Asian Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Northwest China, Mongolia, West Siberia and Far East of Russia; North America (introduced) [ Fikáček et al., 2015b]. In the North Caucasus the species is recorded from Adygea [ Shapovalov, 2010b]. The first record for North Ossetia.