Contacyphon variabilis (Thunberg 1787)
- Dataset
- New records of beetles from families Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Hydraenidae, Helophoridae, Hydrophilidae, Scirtidae and Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from the North Caucasus
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Scirtidae
- genus
- Contacyphon
- species
- Contacyphon variabilis
distribution
Distribution. Europe, Belarus, Ukraine, European part of Russia, Asian Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, West and East Siberia, Far East of Russia, Japan; Nearctic, Neotropical and Australian regions (introduced) [Bousquet et al., 2013; Klausnitzer, 2016]. In the North Caucasus the species is recorded from Adygea [Nikitsky, Shapovalov, 2010] and Krasnodar Region [Maksimenkov, 1995]. The first records for Kabardino-Balkaria.
materials_examined
Material. 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. S. Sazhnev); 1 ex., Verkhnyaya Balkaria env., Sphagnum peat bog No 2, 43 ° 05 ′ 52 ″ N / 43 ° 28 ′ 41 ″ E, 7.06.2018 (A. A. Prokin); 1 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., same locality, 27.09.2018 (A. A. Sazhnev); 20 ex., “ Ushtulu ” narzan mire, 42 ° 58 ′ 29 ″ N / 43 ° 20 ′ 05 ″ E, 21.09.2018 (A. S. Sazhnev, D. A. Philippov).