SHORT COMMUNICATION V. S. Yakubovich1), D. Yu. Rogatnykh2). DISTRIBUTION OF THE PANA- GAEUS ROBUSTUS A. MORAWITZ, 1862 (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE) IN KHABAROVSKII KRAI. – Far Eastern Entomologist. 2012. N 243: 15-16. Summary. The ground beetle Panagaeus robustus is widely distributed in the basin of Amur River in Khabarovskii krai (from Khabarovsk to Nikolaevsk-on-Amur). Key words: Coleoptera, Carabidae, fauna, new record, Russian Far East. В. С. Якубович, Д. Ю. Рогатных. О распространении Panagaeus robustus A. Morawitz, 1862 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) в Хабаровском крае // Дальне- восточный энтомолог. 2012. N 243. С. 15-16. Резюме. Жужелица Panagaeus robustus широко распространена в Хабаровском крае по долине Амура от Хабаровска до Николевска-на-Амуре. INTRODUCTION Previously the ground beetle Panagaeus robustus was recorded from North China, Korea, Japan and Russia (Primorskii krai) (Lafer, 1989), though Krivolutskaya (1973) reported it from South Kuril Islands. Later P. robustus was recorded from Amurskaya oblast (Rogatnykh, 2007) and the mouth of Amur River in Khabarovskii krai (Kurenshchikov & Yakubovich, 2007). The study of additional material shows that this species is widely distributed in the south part of Khabarovskii krai. Family Carabidae Subfamily Panagaeinae Panagaeus robustus A. Morawitz, 1862 Fig. 1 MATERIAL. Russia: Khabarovskii krai, 5 spe- cimens: Ulchskii District, 6 km N mouth of Amgun River, meadow, 30.VI 2006; Nikolaevskii District, between Lake Orel’ and Lake Chlya, meadow, 2.VII 2006; vicinity of Khabarovsk, Korfovskii settlement, dirt road, 21.VI 2008; vicinity of Khabarovsk, Bychi- kha village, 29.V 2009 and 19.VI 2009 (Yakubovich leg.). Fig. 1. Panagaeus robustus (original) 15 REFERENCES Kurenshchikov, D. K. & Yakubovich, V.S. 2007. New data concerning the fauna of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of the Amur valley. In: Streltsov, A.N. (Ed.). The animal world of the Far East: collection of scientific works. Blagoveshchensk. P. 6. (In Russian). Krivolutskaya, G.O. 1973. Entomofauna of the Kuril Islands: Principal Features and Origin. Leningrad: Nauka. 315 p. (In Russian). Lafer, G.Sh. 1989. Family Carabidae. In: Krivolutskaya, G.O., Egorov, A.B., Lafer, G.Sh. & Azarova, N.A. (Eds). Key to the insects of Soviet Far East. Vol. III. Coleoptera, Pt. 1. Leningrad: Nauka. P. 71–222. (In Russian). Rogatnykh, D.Yu. 2007. New records of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Amur Region. Euroasian Entomological Journal, 6(4): 493–495. Author's addresses: 1) Department of Biology, Far Eastern Medical University, Murav’ev-Amursky Street 35, Khabarovsk 680000, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 2) Amur Branch of Botanical Garden-Institute FEB RAS, 2nd km Ignatevskoye road, Blagoveshensk, 675004, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Far Eastern entomologist (Far East. entomol.) Journal published since October 1994. Editor-in-Chief: S.Yu. Storozhenko Editorial Board: A.S. Lelej, N.V. Kurzenko, M.G. Ponomarenko, E.A. Beljaev, V.A. Mutin, E.A. Makarchenko, T.M. Tiunova, P.G. Nemkov, M.Yu. Proshchalykin, S.A. Shabalin Address: Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 690022, Vladivostok-22, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] web-site: http://www.biosoil.ru/fee .