Plateumaris sericea subsp. caucasica (Zaitzev 1930)
- Dataset
- New records of beetles from families Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Hydraenidae, Helophoridae, Hydrophilidae, Scirtidae and Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from the North Caucasus
- Rank
- SUBSPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Chrysomelidae
- genus
- Plateumaris
distribution
Distribution. Europe, Belarus, Ukraine, European part of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Asian Kazakhstan, West and East Siberia [Silfverberg, 2010]. This subspecies was described from Stavropol and Khasavyurt (Dagestan), Russia. In the North Caucasus the subspecies is recorded from Adygea [Medvedev et al., 2010], Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia and Krasnodar Region [Bienkowski, Orolva-Bienkowskaja, 2017]. Subspecies affiliation of Transcaucasian material is still not clear. The first records for North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
materials_examined
Material. NOR: 12 ex., Prigorodny Distr., Tarskoye vill. env., “ Tarskoye ” Sphagnum peat bog, 42 ° 57 ′ 47 ″ N / 44 ° 43 ′ 34 ″ E, on Scirpus sylvaticus, 30.05.2018 (A. A. Prokin). KBR, Chereksky Distr.: 1 ex., Verkhnyaya Balkaria env., Sphagnum peat bog No 1, 43 ° 06 ′ 03 ″ N / 43 ° 29 ′ 24 ″ E, 6.06.2018 (A. A. Prokin); 3 ex., Verkhnyaya Balkaria env., Sphagnum peat bog No 3, 43 ° 05 ′ 49 ″ N / 43 ° 28 ′ 44 ″ E, 8.06.2018 (A. A. Prokin); 2 ex., Verkhnyaya Balkaria env., Sphagnum peat bog No 4, 43 ° 06 ′ 16 ″ N / 43 ° 28 ′ 24 ″ E, 8.06.2018 (A. A. Prokin); 18 ex., “ Ushtulu ” narzan mire, 42 ° 58 ′ 29 ″ N / 43 ° 20 ′ 05 ″ E, 9.06.2018 (A. A. Prokin, A. S. Sazhnev). Note. Larvae feeding on Iris pseudacorus, Carex disparata, Scirpus fluviatilis, Oryza sativa; imago feeding on representatives of genera Iris, Carex, Scirpus, Caltha [Bieńkowski, 2015].