Tachinus (s.str.) elegans Eppelsheim, 1893

Veselova, Elena, 2011, On the fauna of Tachyporinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the Russian Far East. I. The genus Tachinus Gravenhorst, 1802, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 11 (1), pp. 73-92 : 79-80

Tachinus (s.str.) elegans Eppelsheim, 1893

Tachinus elegans Eppelsheim, 1893 , Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1: 45

Tachinus (s.str.) elegans ; Ullrich, 1975: 103 Tachinus (s.str.) elegans ; Veselova, Ryvkin, 1991, Biological Resources and Biocenoses of the Yenisey Taiga: 184

Tachinus (s.str.) elegans ; Schülke, 1989, Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte, 33(5): 230

Material. AMUR AREA: 1ex: Selemdzhinskiy District, source of Selemdzha River: Deremikan River, 03.08.1 979, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( ZIN).― K HAB AROVSK TERRITORY: 1ex: Badzhalskiy Mt. Ridge, Darya River, 01.09.1965, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( ZIN).―1ex: Amgun River, upper reaches of Marukil River, 20.08.1975, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( ZIN).―4ex: Bureinskiy Mt. Ridge, Kuiuk River, 1500 m a.s.l. 15.07.1976, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( ZIN).― 3 males: Verkhnebureinskiy District, Bureinskiy Nature Reserve, buffer zone, near «Strelka» cordon, left side of Umal’ta-Makit River, 570 m a.s.l., rotten geophilous gill fungi on steep slope, 17.09.2006, AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Verkhnebureinskiy District, Bureinskiy Nature Reserve, Pravaya Bureya River basin, up-stream of Medvezhye winter hut, 880–1050 m a.s.l., mosses, litter, drift on overgrown rocky slope near rill in steep fold: Larix gmelinii , Picea ajanensis , Betula?lanata , B.middendorfii , B.platyphylla, Duschekia sp., Pinus pumila , Hylocomium splendens , Pleurozium schreberi , Ptilium crista-castrensis, Dicranum spp., Polytrichum commune , P. sp., Sphagnum spp. , Vaccinium vitis-idaea , etc, 01.08.2007, AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Verkhnebureinskiy District, Bureinskiy Nature Reserve, Pravaya Bureya River basin, below Medvezhye winter hut, 900 m a.s.l., on a road in a larch forest located on a slope with Picea ajanensis , Vaccinium vitis-idaea , Ledum sp. , etc, 26.07.2007, AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Verkhnebureinskiy District, Bureinskiy Nature Reserve, Pravaya Bureya River basin, road from Medvezhye winter hut to Niman pass, 870–1240 m a.s.l., in geophilous gill fungi, 08.08.2007, AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: same locality and date, in bear excrement on a road, AR leg.

with Maianthemum bifolium , Vaccinium vitis-idaea , Linnaea borealis , Poaceae gen.spp., Equisetum sp. , Pleurozium schreberi , Hylocomium splendens , etc. 10.06.1992. AR leg. ( EV).

Remarks. According to Ullrich (1975), T. elegans has been known from N Scandinavia, E Siberia, the Kamchatka Peninsula and Mongolia, with a range disjunction supposed to be in W Siberia. The species is reported herein from the Amur basin, the N Cisokhotia, and the Sakhalin Island for the first time.