Sphaeritidae (Coleoptera, Histeroidea) – a new beetle family to the fauna of Kazakhstan

Abstract

False clown beetle Sphaerites glabratus (Fabricius, 1792) is firstly recorded from Kazakhstan. The records of the beetles from family Sphaeritidae were absent for Kazakhstan. The spider Philodromus poecilus (Thorell, 1872) is cited for the first time as a natural enemy of this species.

Keywords

• sphaerites glabratus
• false clown beetles
• new records
• central kazakhstan