UKRAINIAN УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ENTOMOLOGICAL JOURNAL ЕНТОМОЛОГІЧНИЙ ЖУРНАЛ ISSN 2226-4272 ISSN 2226-4272 UDC 595.72 © Комароми Н.А., Николенко Н.Ю., Пучков А.В., 2018 2018, № 2 (15): 3–21 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15421/281809 THE FAUNISTIC STRUCTURE OF BEETLES (INSECTA: COLEOPTERA) IN HERPETOBIOS OF URBOCENOSIS OF KHARKIV CITY (UKRAINE) N.A. Komaromi1, N.Yu. Nikolenko1, A.V. Putchkov2 1 H.S. Skovoroda National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine e-mail:
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[email protected] A total of 320 species from 42 families were registered in the herpetobios (stratobiont and epigeobiont beetles) of the urbocenosis of Kharkiv. Among these more than 160 species are recorded for the first time for this metropolis. Four species of ground beetles (Notiophilus germinyi Fauvel, Clivina fossor L., Laemostenus terricola Herbst and Masoreus wetterhali Gyll.) were not listed for Ukraine in the Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. The speciesOmosita japonica Reitter, 1874 (Nitidulidae) is new for Ukranian fauna. Moreover, 93 species from 17 families are the dominant species (at least in one of the urban ecosystems). Among these, eudominants are represented with almost 20 species, but the number of eudomonants did not exceed ten species in separate urban cenoses. Carabidae (80), Staphylinidae (36), Curculionidae (32) and Tenebrionidae (8 species) dominate both, in species composition and abundance. The total part of these groups reached at least 90% of Coleoptera, recorded in urban-cenosis. Separate species of Silphidae, Dermestidae, Elateridae, Chrysomelidae, Leiodidae, Coccinellidae, Nitidulidae, Scarabaeidae, Histeridae and Lucanidae were sporadically usual in most plots.