Scopaeus chalcodactylus Kolenati, 1846 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), a new species of rove beetles for the fauna of Russia

Abstract

The rove beetle Scopaeus chalcodactylus (Kolenati, 1846) is for the first time recorded for the territory of the North Caucasus (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic), this finding moreover constitutes the first record of the species for the Greater Caucasus and Russia. The related, allopatric S. pusillus Kiesenwetter, 1843, which in the Greater Caucasus was known from Azerbaijan (Ganja) only, is recorded for the western Greater Caucasus (Krasnodar Province). The total range of S. chalcodactylus and the Middle Eastern and Caucasian distribution of S. pusillus are mapped and discussed as well as the habitat requirements of S. chalcodactylus and the chorology of its Central Caucasian populations. Diagnostic characters of S. chalcodactylus and S. pusillus are presented including figures of the aedeagi.

Keywords

• Coleoptera
• Staphylinidae
• Paederinae
• Scopaeus chalcodactylus
• distribution
• fauna
• Central Caucasus
• Russia