Blaps virgo Seidlitz, 1893

Chigray, Ivan & Ivanov, Alexander, 2020, A Review Of The Genus Blaps (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Of Central And South Kazakhstan With Description Of Two New Species, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 66 (2), pp. 111-162 : 151-152

Blaps virgo Seidlitz, 1893

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Seidlitz, 1893: 307; Skopin, 1961: 190 ; Ren et al. 2000; 27; Ren et al., 2016: 178.

Material examined. NHM. 1 m, ‘Haberhauer / Turkestan / 89 // Blaps akinina All // sagitta // Cotypus / Blaps sagitta Seidl. / N. Skopin design. / 1978’. ZIN. 1 m, 4 ff, ‘Naryn mountains / Semirechye Region / 6.vi.1905. / leg. Nezhivov’ [in Cyrillics]; 1 m, ‘Naryn mountains / Semirechye Region / 8.vi.1905. / leg. Nezhivov’ [in Cyrillics]; 2 ff, ‘Naryn mountains / Semirechye Region / 11.vi.1905. / leg. Nezhivov’ [in Cyrillics]; 1 m, Przhevalsk [Karakol] / 28.vi.04 / leg. Nezhivov’ [in Cyrillics]; 2 ff, ‘Naryn mountains / 9.vii.1904 / leg. Nezhivov’ [in Cyrillics]; 3 ff, ‘Naryn town / 10.vii.1904 // leg. Herz’; 1 f, ‘Naryn town / 11.vii.1904 ’; 1 f, ‘Naryn town / 20.vi.04 / leg. Nezhivov’ [in Cyrillics]; 3 mm, 1 f, ‘Southeast Kazakhstan / Dzungarian Alatau / 1.vi.1968 / leg. N.G. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics]; 1 m, 1 f, ‘Dzungarian Alatau / 5 km N Bien River / 22.v.1968 / leg. N.G. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics].

Comments. A population of B. virgo with short mucro (1–1,5 mm) occurs near Bien River (Alma-Ata Region).

Distribution. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China (Xinjiang Region) ( LÖBL et al. 2008, REN et al. 2016).

Regional distribution. Northern slopes of Terskey Alatau Range (Narynkol Region).

Figures

Fig. 39. B. virgo, habitus. A, B = m; C = f; A, C = dorsal view; B = ventral view