Microdera deserta deserta ( Tauscher, 1812 )

Microdera deserta deserta ( Tauscher, 1812)

( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 )

Tentyria deserta Tauscher, 1812: 38 .

= Tentyria deplanata Gebler, 1841: 373 .

Type material examined. Tentyria deplanata ( Fig. 6A, E, F View FIGURE 6 ). Lectotype (ZIN), ♂, hereby designated: goldish square, “Camp. Kirg or.” (the first two words are printed, the third is handwritten; east of Kirghiz steppes = central and eastern Kazakhstan), “ deplanata Gebl. St. Kirg. or.” (handwritten), “ Lectotypus Tentyria deplanata Gebler, 1841 des. M. Nabozhenko, 2024”. Paralectotype (ZIN), sex unknown: goldish square, “Camp. Kirg. or.”. The second paralectotype (as a syntype) from Zoological Museum of Moscow State University was mentioned by Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko (2011). References and synonymy were indicated in Nabozhenko & Kalashian (2022).

Material examined. 1 ♀ ( ZIN): Tashkent , 5.vi.1915 (T.E.S. = Turkestan Entomological Station) ( Fig. 6B–D View FIGURE 6 ) .

Distribution. European part of Russia: Caspian depression ( Nabozhenko & Kalashian 2022), Kazakhstan: from Caspian Depression across Aral sands to Ili valley and Alakol Lake ( Skopin 1961a), Uzbekistan: Tashkent (new record for the country), China: Ili valley ( Skopin 1961a). The second subspecies Microdera deserta skopini Kaszab, 1966 was described from SE Kazakhstan and it is probably a good species, because distinctly differs from M. deserta s. str. in the shape of the pronotum.