Idiomelas (Egaploa) fulvipes himalayensis DELLA BEFFA, 1931

Jaeger, Bernd & Ahmed, Zubair, 2017, Preliminary Checklist of the Stenolophina species of Pakistan (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini, Stenolophina), Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (1), pp. 609-617 : 612

Idiomelas (Egaploa) fulvipes himalayensis DELLA BEFFA, 1931

E x a m i n e d m a t e r i a l: Sindh: Noshehroferozearea , at light, 13.V.2014, Z. Ahmed (433, ♀♀ - cZAP, cJAE) ; Tando Muhammad Khan , 11.VII.2016, Z. Ahmed (433, ♀♀ - cZAP, cJAE), Tando Muhammad Khan, village Sheikh Bhirkio, 26.VI.2016, Z. Ahmed (3 ex. - cZAP) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n: According to KATAEV (1997, 2013) and JAEGER et al. (2016) Idiomelas fulvipes (ERICHSON, 1843) is widely distributed in the Afrotropical region and in southern Asia, and comprises three subspecies. The nominotypical subspecies is widely distributed in the Afrotropical region (including Cabo Verde Islands, Madagascar and the Seychelles), the Arabian Peninsula ( Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman) and in Iraq; the subspecies I. fulvipes himalayensis DELLA BEFFA, 1931 occurs east of this area in Pakistan and NW India (New Dehli and Rajasthan); and finally, the ssp. I. fulvipes indus KATAEV, 1997 occurs further east in southern and eastern India, Nepal and Myanmar.

D i s t r i b u t i o n i n P a k i s t a n: The subspecies I. fulvipes himalayensis was originally described from "Hispar" in the Gilgit-Baltistan region and was subsequently recorded by KATAEV (2013: 761) from the Islamabad territory (Islamabad, National Forest Park) and from the Azad Jammu and Kashmir region (env. Naran NW of Junkar). This subspecies is here also recorded from the Sindh province.