Prosoblapsia Skopin & Kaszab, 1978

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 : 152-154

Subgenus Prosoblapsia Skopin & Kaszab, 1978

Type species Blaps allardiana Reitter, 1889 by the original designation ( SKOPIN & KASZAB 1978).

Comments. MEDVEDEV (2001) interpreted the genus Ablapsis Reitter, 1887 as a subgenus of Blaps and some species of Prosoblapsia ( Blaps (Ablapsis) compressipes Reitter, 1887 , B. (A.) berezowskii G. S. Medvedev, 1998 , B. (A.) lucidula G. S. Medvedev, 1998 , B. (A.) znoikoi SEMENOV & BOGATCHEV, 1936 and B. (A.) gentilis gentilis Fairmaire, 1887 ) were included by him in the subgenus Ablapsis . However, further specialists have not accepted this opinion ( LÖBL et al., 2008, REN et al., 2016). The taxonomic position and composition of Ablapsis and Prosoblapsia will be discussed in further works.

Blaps transversimsulcata transversimsulcata Ballion, 1878

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Ballion, 1878: 301; Seidlitz, 1893: 296 (“Turkestan”); Skopin, 1960: 52 (larva); Skopin, 1961: 190 ; Skopin, 1968: 84 ; Skopin, 1977: 149 ; Ren et al., 2016: 196.

Material examined (ZIN). 1 m, 1f, ‘Tian Shan, Musart // coll. N. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics]; 1 m, ‘Ost–Turkestan / Acsu River / 1067 m. / v.1903 / leg. Hauser // coll. N. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics]; 1 m, 1f, ‘ Uzbekistan / Tian Shan / Przhevalsk [Karakol] / 3300 m. / vi.77’ [in Cyrillics]; 1 m, ‘Cat River [tributary of Ili River]/ Dzungarian Region/ leg. Regel’; 1 m, 1f, ‘Env. of Kuldzha / 22.iv.79 / leg. A. Regel // Topotype // Homotype Blaps rudesculpta / det. N. Skopin’.

Comments. Blaps transversimsulcata rudesculpta Semenov Tian-Shansky et Bogatchev, 1936 is a younger synonym of B. t. transversimsulcata ( SKOPIN 1977) , not of Blaps maeander Kraatz, 1885 (mistake in LÖBL et al. 2008).

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

Regional distribution. Talas Ala-Too and Ugam Ranges ( SKOPIN 1968 ).

Blaps transversimsulcata meandroides Skopin, 1977

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Skopin, 1977: 151 .

Type material examined ( ZIN). Holotype: m, ‘Southeast Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / Alma-Ata city suburbs / 19.vi.1957 / leg. N.G. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics] [43°12’12.60”N, 76°50’37.26”E]. Paratypes: 1 m, ‘ Southeast Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / Alma-Ata city / 24.vi.1952 / leg. N.G. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics] [43°12’12.60”N, 76°50’37.26”E] ; 1 m, ‘ Southeast Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / Zailiyskiy Alatau / Khargaly canyon / 12.vii.1969 / leg. K. Nurpeisov’ [in Cyrillics] [43°7’47.74”N, 76°22’30.08”E] ; 1 m, ‘ Southeast Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / Alma-Ata city suburbs / 13.vii.1953 / leg. N.G. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics] [43°12’12.60”N, 76°50’37.26”E] ; 1 m, ‘ Southeast Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / Alma-Ata city suburbs / 23.vi.1957 / leg. N.G. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics] [43°12’12.60”N, 76°50’37.26”E] ; 1 m, ‘ Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata / h = 1400 m / 31.v.1950 / leg. N.G. Skopin’; 1 m, ‘f, ‘ Kyrgyzstan / Bishkek city / 2.vi.1976 / leg. Yanushev’ [in Cyrillics] .

Material examined ( ZIN). 1 m, 6 ff, ‘ Eastern Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / Zailiyskiy Alatau Range / gorge of Uzun-Kargaly River [N43°4’40.23”, E76°24’9.25”] / 31.05– 08. vi.1907 / leg. A. Jakobson’ [in Cyrillics] .

Distribution. Northern, North-East and Central Tian Shan ( Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) ( SKOPIN 1977 ).

Regional distribution. Southeast Kazakhstan ( SKOPIN 1977 ).

Figures

Fig. 40. B. transversimsulcata transversimsulcata, habitus. A, B = m; C = f; A, C = dorsal view; B = ventral view

Fig. 41. B. transversimsulcata meandroides, habitus. A, B = m; C = f; A, C = dorsal view; B = ventral view