Blaps granulata Gebler, 1825

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 : 123

Blaps granulata Gebler, 1825

SKOPIN (1966, 1968) presented keys to adults for subspecies of Blaps granulata . Multiple subspecies (seven described, two scheduled for description) of B. granulata raises doubts. The validity of these taxa requires careful analysis using molecular-genetic methods; keys of Skopin , based on the elytral granulation, is unclear and difficult to use in identification of the taxa. In this paper, we present material on four Kazakhstanian subspecies of B. granulata (material on B. granulata stackelbergi Bogatchev, 1952 was not studied), but only the nominotypical subspecies is included in our key.