Chlaenius (Agostenus) alutaceus Gebler, 1829

Kabak, I. I. & Liang, H. - B., 2021, An annotated list of the genus Chlaenius Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, Far Eastern Entomologist 429, pp. 12-28 : 14

Chlaenius (Agostenus) alutaceus Gebler, 1829

Chlaenius (Agostenus) alutaceus: Kabak, 2016: 191 [“ CH, Xinjiang, Kara-Irtysh (=

Ertix) River, Burqin Town”].

Chlaenius (Agostenus) alutaceus: Kirschenhofer, 2017: 484 [“ Xinjiang ”].

MATERIAL EXAMINED. China: Xinjiang, Kara-Irtysh (= Ertix) River, Burqin Town,

47°41'35"N, 86°51'54"E, h= 410 m, 31.VII 2015, 1 ♀, leg. I.I. Kabak (cBK); Xinjiang, 10 km

W Beitun, 47.367°N, 87.666° E, h= 511 m, 27.VII 2007, 1 ♀, leg. Chengli Zhang & Xinpu

Wang ( IOZ); Xinjiang, Tacheng , 46.744°N, 83.115°E, h= 594 m, 24. VII 1955, 1 ♂, leg.

Shijun Ma & Yonglin Chen ( IOZ); Xinjiang, Ili, VIII 1982, 1 ♀ ( IOZ) .

DISTRIBUTION. The species is widespread over South-Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia,

Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Iran, Siberia, Mongolia, Russian Far East, Korea and Japan (Mandl,

1983; Kirschenhofer, 2017). In China it is recorded from Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang,

Liaoning, Hebei, Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu. In Xinjiang Ch. alutaceus inhabits the plains of the Dzhungarian Basin (= Jonggar Pendi): Tacheng City and Ertix River, as well as the Ili valley .

HABITAT. Chlaenius alutaceus inhabits the banks of slowly floating rivers on plains.