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Issue 98
GENERAL BIOLOGY
UDK: 595.767.29(470+471.6)
NOTES ON THE LITTLE-KNOWN CAUCASIAN COMB-CLAWED BEETLE MYCETOCHARA HIRSUTA PIC, 1925 COLEOPTERA: (TENEBRIONIDAE: ALLECULINAE)
NABOZHENKO Maxim V.
A redescription of a male and female of the rare Caucasian comb-clawed beetle Mycetochara hirsuta Pic, 1925 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae) is presented. This taxon was originally described from Borjomi (Georgia) as a Transcaucasian variety of the widespread European M. maura (Fabricius, 1792). Later it was synonymized with the latter and recently resurrected as a valid species. The species is known from Georgia and Abkhazia and most similar to the North-Caucasian M. ingushetica Nabozhenko et Gadaborsheva, 2024. High qualitative images of a female (holotype) and a male are presented as well as comparative diagnosis.
Pages: 6 - 10
Date: 30.11.2025