Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 111-113 (2018) This journal is available online at: www.biotaxa.org/em

On distribution of Lampyris noctiluca (Linnaeus, 1767) (Coleoptera, Lampyridae) in the Amur region

VITALY G. BEZBORODOV1* & EVGENY S. KOSHKIN2

1Amur Branch of Botanical Garden-Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2-d km of Ignatevskoye road, Blagoveshchensk, 675000, Russia, 2Institute of Water and Ecology Problems of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dikopoltsev St. 56, Khabarovsk, 680000, Russia; State Nature Reserve «Bureinskii», Zelenaya Str. 3, Chegdomyn, Khabarovskii Krai, 682030, Russia. Corresponding author: Vitaly G. Bezborodov; e-mail: [email protected]

Received: 7 February 2018│ Accepted by V. Pešić: 28 February 2018 │ Published online: 2 March 2018.

Lampyris noctiluca (Linnaeus, 1767) (Coleoptera, Lampyridae) covers an extensive transpalaearctic range (Medvedev & Ryvkin 1992; Geisthardt & Sato 2007; Kazantsev 2010, 2011) with unclear boundaries of distribution on the periphery. The eastern sector of the range has been studied the least. Until recently, from the Amur region (within the borders of the Amurskaya oblast' and Khabarovskii krai of Russia) three points of collection of L. noctiluca were known. However, this which does not give a detailed idea of the range of the species in this region (Kazantsev 2010) (Fig. 1). Our research provided material from the basins of the Amur and Uda rivers, which significantly clarifies the northern boundary of distribution in the eastern sector of the range of Lampyris noctiluca. Lampyris noctiluca is also firstly recorded for the Heilongjiang province in China and the Evreiskaya avtonomnaya oblast' in Russia. Our results establish that Lampyris noctiluca is widely distributed in the Amur basin. The northeastern border of the range is located in the zone of the southern taiga in the upper reaches of the Zeya, Selemdzha and Bureya rivers. The northernmost point in the eastern part of the range is located in the basin of the Uda River (entry of Shevli River).

Material examined: The material used in the work was collected by the authors at night on the light system and using air nets (males), as well as manually from surface ground and plants (females and larvae). Some specimens was donated by local collectors.

Lampyris noctiluca (Linnaeus, 1767), Fig. 1. RUSSIA: Amurskaya oblast': Skovorodinskii district: Dzhalinda, 11.VII.2003, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 female; Urusha, 17.VII.2003, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 male; Never, 29.VII.2004, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 female; Zeyskii Nature Reserve, Bol`shaya Erakingra River, cordon “52nd kilometer”, 20.VI 2017, leg. A.A. Kuzmin, 1 female; Selemdzhinskii district: Ekimchan, 10–11.VIII.2007, leg. V.G. Bezborodov & O.V. Zhilin, 1 male; Tyndinskii district: Gilui River, entry of Malyi Djeltulak River, 31.VII.2008, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 female;

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Figure 1. Distribution of Lampyris noctiluca in the basins of the Amur and Uda rivers

Zeyskii district: Soktakhan Mountain Range, Bekel`deul` River, 25.VIII.2003, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 male; Magdagachinskii district: Sivaki, 20.VIII.2003, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 female; Blagoveshchensk, Mokhovaya Pad`, 08–13.VI.1995, V.G. Bezborodov, 1 male, 4 female; Blagoveshchenskii district: Prizeyskaya, 11–12.VII.1996, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 male; Belogorskii district: Belogorsk, 16.VI.1996, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 male, 1 female; Vozzhayevka, 10.VII 1997, leg. A. Manukov, 1 male; Svobodnenskii district: Svobodnyi, 1–6.VII.1991, leg. D. Gritsenko, 1 male; Shimanovskii district: Shimanovsk, 24.VI.2005, leg. O.V. Zhilin, 1 female; Mazanovskii district: Novokievskii Uval, 04.VII.1996, leg. Yu. Strecha, 2 male; Romnenskii district: Znamenka, 9–13.VI.2004, leg. V.A. Yamkovoi, 1 female; Zavitinskii district: Zavitinsk, 03-05.VI.2002, leg. O. Reshetnyov, 1 female; Tambovskii district: Tambovka, 29.VI.2002, leg. O. Reshetnyov, 1 female; Konstantinovskii district: Konstantinovka, 9–11.VII 2005, leg. N. Panina, 1 female; Bureyskii district: Talakan, 13–15.VI.2002, leg. T.A. Polyakova, 1 female; Arkharinskii district: Arkhara, 21–22.VI.2002, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 male; Innokentyevka, 23.VI.2002, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 female; Kundur, 8–13.VI.1998, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 2 male, 3 female; Uril, 21.VI.2001, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 male; Evreiskaya avtonomnaya oblast': Obluchenskii district: Obluchye, 15.VI.1996, leg. A.A. Kuzmin, 1 male; Oktyabr’skii district: Soyuznoe, 5–8.VII.2012, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 3 male, 1 female; Birobidzhanskii district: Birobidzhan, 16.VI.2005, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 male; Bastak Nature Reserve, cordon “Zaimka Ivakina”, 21.VI.2005, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 2 female; Khabarovskii krai: Tuguro-Chumikanskii district: Uda River, entry of Shevli River, 23– 25.VI.2008, leg. S.A. Golub`, 2 female;

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Verkhnebureinskii district: Bureinskii Nature Reserve, Pravaya Bureya River, cordon “Novyi Medvezhii”, 52°07´ N, 134°17´ E, 880 m, 5.VII.2016, leg. E.S. Koshkin, 1 male; Bureya River, entry of Usman’ River, 51°32´ N, 133°59´ E, 495 m, 19.V.2010, 1 mature larva (E.S. Koshkin leg.); Chegdomyn, 20–21.VI.2009, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 1 male; 10 km E Chegdomyn, El’gandzha River, 51°07´ N, 133°09´ E, 476 m, 14–16.VI.2011, leg. E.S. Koshkin, 1 male; Lazo district: 25 km SE Durmin village, Durmin River, 47°54´N, 136°02´E, 205 m, 23.VI.2017, leg. E.S. Koshkin, 1 male; Khabarovskii district: Matveevka, 6.VII.2017, leg. E.V. Adnagulov, 1 female; Bolshekhekhtsirskii Nature Reserve, cordon “Odyr”, 23–29.VI.2014, leg. V.G. Bezborodov, 13 male. CHINA: Heilongjiang province: Heihe city, lake Uonyukhu, 19.VII.2009, leg. V.G. Bezborodov & O.V. Zhilin leg, 2 female. Distribution: Europe; Russia: European part, North Caucasus, Southern Ural, Southern Siberia, Amurskaya oblast', Evreiskaya avtonomnaya oblast', Khabarovskii krai, Primorskii krai, Sakhalin, Southern Kuriles Azerbaidzhan; Mongolia; China: Heilongjiang (Heihe), Jilin (Chanbaishan); North Korea (Medvedev & Ryvkin, 1992; Tyler, 2002; Li & al., 2003; Geisthardt & Sato, 2007; Kazantsev, 2010, 2011).

In east sector of an area of Lampyris noctiluca gets into subzones of the southern and middle boreal forests where it is widespread in inundated ecosystems. Sporadic distribution of a species in high latitudes is possibly bound to secondary expansion of an area in the Holocene.

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