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The Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Mongolian Altai Author(S): Elena V The Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Mongolian Altai Author(s): Elena V. Guskova Source: The Coleopterists Bulletin, 71(1):120-130. Published By: The Coleopterists Society DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.120 URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.120 BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses. Your use of this PDF, the BioOne Web site, and all posted and associated content indicates your acceptance of BioOne’s Terms of Use, available at www.bioone.org/page/ terms_of_use. Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions requests should be directed to the individual publisher as copyright holder. BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 71(1): 120–130. 2017. THE CHRYSOMELINAE (COLEOPTERA:CHRYSOMELIDAE) OF THE MONGOLIAN ALTAI ELENA V. GUSKOVA Altai State University, Lenina 61 Barnaul, RU–656049, RUSSIA [email protected] ABSTRACT An annotated inventory of the 40 species and 12 genera of Chrysomelinae from the Mongolian Altai is presented. Four species of leaf beetles, Chrysolina quadrangulata Motschulsky, 1860, Chrysolina graminis (Linnaeus, 1758), Phratora polaris (Schneider, 1886), and Phratora vulgatissima (Linnaeus, 1758), and one subspecies, Chrysolina perforata simillima Mohr, 1966, are newly recorded for the Mongolian Altai. Three species, Crosita clementzae Jacobson, 1899, Phaedon armoraciae (Linnaeus, 1758), and Entomoscelis adonidis (Pallas, 1771), and one subspecies, Gastrophysa viridula lenta (Weise, 1887), are new records for Bayan-Ulegei aimak. Two species, Chrysolina perforata (Gebler, 1830) and Phaedon concinnus Stephens, 1834, are new records for Gobi-Altai aimak. Key Words: leaf beetles, distribution, checklist, Mongolia, Palearctic DOI.org/10.1649/0010-065X-71.1.120 The Mongolian entomofauna has been extensively MATERIAL AND METHODS investigated since the 1960s by Czechoslovakian, German, Polish, and Hungarian expeditions. Among The current paper is mostly based on a personal the early expeditions, those organized by the collection by the author who participated in the Hungarian entomologist Z. Kaszab during 1963– botanical-zoological expeditions organized by the 1968 deserve particular attention due to the large South Siberian Botanical Garden of Altai State geographic coverage and wealth of collected University in 2007, 2009, and 2010. Expeditions material. In 1969, the joint Soviet-Mongolian were performed in all three aimaks covered by the complex biological expedition began. The prominent Mongolian Altai: Bayan-Ulegei, Hovd, and Gobi- chrysomelid specialist, L. N. Medvedev (Institute of Altai, including localities which had never been Ecology and Evolution named after A. N. Severtzov, visited by entomologists. Collecting was performed Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) participated using standard methods: manual collecting and in the expedition from the beginning and headed it sweeping with a sweep net and night collecting from 1973 to 1979. using ultraviolet lights (light source - tube Philips Despite lengthy research on the insect fauna in TL 8W/05; bulbs - Philips 250; Subaru 750 gener- Mongolia, the country’s territory remained unevenly ator; poison - chloroform). studied; in particular, Western Mongolia and espe- The author also studied material collected dur- cially the Mongolian Altai proved to be the least ing expeditions performed in 2002, 2005, 2011, studied. As everywhere in Central Asia and South 2012, 2013, and 2015. The taxonomic identities Siberia, the main reason was the inaccessibility of of specimens were determined using the key in high mountain ranges. Our recent studies conducted Warchałowski (2010) and also by comparison in the Mongolian Altai significantly supplemented with authoritatively identified specimens in the the data on the leaf beetle fauna of the Mongolian collection of Zoological Institute of the Russian Altai. As a result, we described three species new Academy of Sciences. Acronyms of collections to science. Labidostomis yakovlevi Gus’kova, 2006 from which material was studied are as follows: (Guskova 2006), Chrysolina shapkini Mikhailov and Gus’kova, 2013 (Mikhailov and Guskova ABC Andrzei Bienkowski Collection, 2013a), and Cystocnemis levmedvedevi Mikhailov Zelenograd, Russia and Gus’kova, 2013 (Mikhailov and Guskova DEI Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, 2013b). In addition, Guskova (2016) presented a Müncheberg, Germany full review of the leaf beetles of the subfamilies EGC Elena Guskova Collection, Barnaul, Alticinae and Cassidinae for the Mongolian Altai. Russia The present study provides a detailed overview of the LMC Lev Medvedev Collection, Moscow, Russia leaf beetles of the subfamily Chrysomelinae in the YuMC Yuriy Evgenievich Mikhailov Collec- Mongolian Altai. tion, Ekaterinburg, Russia 120 THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 71(1), 2017 121 ZIN Zoological Institute of the Russian Acad- 4) Altai (BU): 20 km W Altai, 2,850–2,950 m, emy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia 46°53′ N91°06′ E. 5) Dzhelty-Ula: 20 km NW Altai, Dzhelty- Collecting sites in the three aimaks of the Ula Mt., 2,850–2900 m, 47°01″ N 90°59′ E. Mongolian Altai are listed here and their locations 6) Khara-Nuur: 20 km WNW Altai, Lake indicated in Fig. 1. Khara-Nuur, 2,560 m, 47°04′ N 90°57′ E. 7) Middle Bulgan-gol: Middle stream of BAYAN-ULEGEJ AIMAK: Bulgan-gol River, 1,800 m, 46°44′ N 91°18′ E. 8) Turgen-Gol: 2,300–2,250 m, 50°10′ N 1) Elt-Gol: Middle stream of Elt-Gol River 91°26′ E. (Kara-Irtys basin), Khorabajn-Salaa Valley, 9) Tolbo-Nuur: Tolbo-Nuur Lake, 2,100 m, 2,100–2,300 m, 48°07′ N89°11′ E. 48°31′ N 90°06′ E. 2) Tsengel: Kobdo-gol Valley, 20 km SW 10) Tolbo: 45 km S Tolbo, 2,800 m, 48°04′ N Tsengel, (between Bor-Burgas-Gol and 90°15′ E. Mukharyn-Gol Rivers), 1,900–2,200 m, 11) Buyant: Sagsaj River Valley, 12 km SSW 48°49′ N 88°59′ E. Buyant, 2,100 m, 48°35′ N 89°33′ E. 3) Tal-Nuur: Pass, 9 km ESE Tal-Nuur 12) Sagsaj: 30 km SSE Altai, Sagsaj Valley, Lake, 2,800 m, 48°00′ N 90°20′ E. 2,350 m, 48°36′ N 89°48′ E. Fig. 1. Collecting localities for Chrysomelidae during expeditions of South-Siberian Botanical Garden of Altai State University in the Mongolian Altai. 122 THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 71(1), 2017 13) Ikh-Dhargalantyn-Gol: Ikh-Dhargalantyn- 32) Gushoot-Shineetijn-Gol: Bajtag-Bogd- Gol, 20 km NW Bulgan, 47°02′ N 90°45′ E. Uul Mts., Gushoot-Shineetijn-Gol River 14) Usvajn-Davaa: 50 km SE Altai, Usvajn- Valley, 2,000 m, 45°15′ N 91°03′ E. Davaa Pass, 2,850 m, 48°05′ N 90°18′ E. 33) 55 km NE Altai: 55 km NE Altai, 2,000 m; 15) Shine-Davaa: 27 km S Zagan-Nuur Lake, Hovd aimak, Great Lakes Valley, near Shine-Davaa Pass, 2,700 m, 49°13′ N Dariv, 1,450 m, 46°55′ N93°41′ E. 89°46′ E. 34) Mankhan: 50 km S Mankhan, 2,200 m, 16) Zagan-Nuur: 20 km E Zagan-Nuur 47°02′ N 92°14′ E. Lake, Zagan-Nuryn-Gol Valley, 49°36′ N 35) Dzhun-Zhargalant-Hajirkhan: 35 km 90°08′ E. NE Mankhan, western slope of Dzhun- Zhargalant-Hajirkhan Mts., 1,900 m, HOVD AIMAK: 47°40′ N92°30′ E. 36) Must: 38 km S Must, Dayanpangijn- 17) Bulgan: Dzhungarian Gobi Desert, Bulgan Davaa Pass, 2,800 m, 46°33′ N 92°46′E. somon, 1,100–1,400 m, 45°59′ N 91°31′ E. 37) Myangat: 15 km NNE Myangat, 48°16′ N 18) 25 km N Bulgan: 25 km N Bulgan, 91°40′ E. Ulyastajn-Gol Valley, 1,500 m, 46°31′ N 38) Munkh-Khairkhan: Munkh-Khairkhan 91°29′ E. Mts., 45°13′ N 90°56′ E. 19) Bulgan-Gol Valley: Middle stream of 39) Bodgony-Hutel: Between Bodgony-Hutel Bulgan-Gol Valley, 45 km N of Bulgan, and Khara-Belchir-Daba Pass, 2,400 m, 1,500 m, 46°33′ N 91°22′ E. 46°45′ N 92°31′ E. 20) Dod-Naryin-gol: 40 km N Bulgan, Bulgan-gol 40) Dzegijn-Ama: Dzegijn-Ama Gorge, east- Basin, middle stream of Dod-Naryin-gol ern Ikh-Khavtgijn-Nuruu Mts., 45°02′ N River, Shara-Nuruu Mts., 1,400–1,700 m, 92°31′ E. 46°29′ N91°29′ E. 21) Darkhijn-Shurag-Gol: Under stream of GOBI-ALTAI AIMAK: Darkhijn-Shurag-Gol River, near Erdene- Buren-Somon, 1,400 m, 48°18′ N91°18′ E. 41) Hara-Adzragyn-Nuru: Hara-Adzragyn- 22) Barangijn-Shara-Nuruu: Dzhungarian Nuru Mts., Najtvaryn-Sajr River Valley Gobi Desert, Barangijn-Shara-Nuruu Mts., (under stream), 1,700–2,000 m, 45°52′ N 15 km S Bulgan somon, 1,300 m, 45°53′ N 95°30′ E. 91°19′ E. 42) Alag-Nuur: Dzhungarian Gobi Desert, 23) Arshantyn-Nuruu: Bulgan-gol Basin, Alag-Nuur Lake (near Ajlyn-Tsagan- Arshantyn-Nuruu Mts., Bayan-gol Basin, Khuduk), 1,300 m, 45°09′ N94°30′ E. middle stream of Ulyastain-Sala River, 43) Bidzh-Altai: 30 km ENE Bidzh-Altai, 1,700–2,300 m, 46°19′ N91°07′ E. Alag-Hajirkhan Mt., 2,200–2,300 m, 24) Arshantyn-Nuruu (N): Arshantyn- 45°33′ N94°04′ E. Nuruu Mts. (northern slopes), 1.700 m, 44) Zhargalan: Khasagt-Khairkhan Mts., 17 km 46°22′08″ N91°13′52″ E. SSW Zhargalan, 2,500–2,900 m, 46°48′ N 25) Uench: Uenchin-Gol River, 25 km NNW 95°49′ E.
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