Tetartopeus scutellaris (NORDMANN 1837)

Assing, V., 2008, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Paederinae and Xantholinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2), pp. 1237-1294 : 1263

Tetartopeus scutellaris (NORDMANN 1837)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Bulgaria: 1 ex., coast of Black Sea, Roppotamo National Park, 25.V.1988, leg. A. Pütz (cWun).

C o m m e n t: The known distribution of T. scutellaris extends from Russia, the Caucasus region, Turkey, and the Balkans in the east and southeast to eastern Central Europe ( Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) in the west and northwest. The above specimen represents the first record from Bulgaria. According to SMETANA (2004), the vicariant species T. angustatus (LACORDAIRE 1835) occurs in Bulgaria. However, there is little doubt that this record is based on a confusion with the externally similar T. scutellaris . Tetartopeus angustatus has an Atlanto-Mediterranean distribution, which extends westwards into Central Europe. Previous records of this species from Poland and the Czech Republic are similarly doubtful.