The Coleoptera of the southwest of Primorsky Krai, Russian Far East

Study Extent

The data are based on materials collected by us during an 8-year study of ground beetles in the southwestern part of Primorye. During the period of the most intensive study of the fauna in 2019-2022. route and stationary studies covered the vast territory of the Land of the leopard National park and the Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve. In addition to their own collections, the available materials from this territory, collected by other researchers, were studied.

Sampling

When studying the Coleoptera, all available methods of their collection were used: manual collection, collection with an exhauster, soil traps, shaking off the crowns of trees and shrubs, light of electric lamps, trampling vegetation in damp and boggy biotopes, sifting the litter using entomological sieves, mowing on grassy vegetation using an entomological net and others.

Quality Control

All collected specimens of the families Agyrtidae, Anobiidae, Carabidae, Cerambycidae, Coccinellidae, Cucujidae, Decliniidae, Disteniidae, Elmidae, Endomychidae, Erotylidae, Geotrupidae, Helotidae, Kateretidae, Lucanidae, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Monotomidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Ochodaeidae, Pyrochroidae, Rhysodidae, Silphidae, Tenebrionidae, have been identified by the authors of this resource. The species of other families are partially or completely determined by specialists: A.A. Gusakov (Bolboceratidae, Scarabaeidae, Trogidae), S.V. Kazantsev (Cantharidae, Lycidae), A.G. Kirejtshuk (Nitidulidae), B.M. Korotyaev, I.A. Zabaluev (Curculionidae), S.V. Kurbatov (Pselaphidae, Scydmaenidae), I.V. Melnik (Buprestidae, Cleridae, Trogossitidae), Yu.E. Mikhailov, M.E. Sergeev (Chrysomelidae, Megalopodidae), A.A. Petrov (Scolytidae), A.A. Polilov (Ptiliidae), A.A. Prokin (Elmidae), A.S. Sazhnev (Heteroceridae), S.V. Saluk (Latridiidae), O.I. Semionenkov, A.S. Tokareva (Staphylinidae), V.K. Zinchenko (Leiodidae).

Method steps

1. When studying the Coleoptera, all standard methods of their collection were used

1. Coleoptera
   common name: Beetles rank: order

The southwest of Primorsky Krai is located in the extreme southeast of mainland Russia. According to the physical-geographical zoning of the south of the Far East, it occupies the western part of the Khanka-Suifun physical-geographical region.