Colobicus hirtus (Rossi, 1790)

Colobicus hirtus (Rossi, 1790)

Fig. 1.

Material. 1 ex. – 30.07.2015, South-East Kazakhstan, Almaty Oblast, State Natural National Park «Ile-Alatau», Ile-Alatau ridge, Butakovka gorge, mixed aspen-birch forest, 43°10'38.12"N 77°5'42.06"E, under bark of aspen Populus tremula L., I.I. Temreshev; 2 ex. – 10.08.2022, North Kazakhstan, Kostanai Oblast, Fyodorov d., nei. Koskol lake, 53°55'0.58"N 62°46'26.21"E, birch grove, under the bark of the dead European white birch Betula pendula Roth., I.I. Temreshev ; 3 ex. – 12.08.2024, North Kazakhstan, Akmola oblast, Burabay district, neighborhoods of Shchuchinsk village, mixed pine-birch forest, 52°58'10.02"N 70°15'28.69"E, under bark of dead B. pendula , infected by the Violet-Toothed Polypore Trichaptum biforme (Fr.) Ryvarden, 1972 , I.I. Temreshev ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 ).

Remarks. C. hirtus is distributed in Europe ( Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica Island, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Ukraine), North Africa ( Algeria), Asia ( Afghanistan, China, Russian Far East, Iran, Japan, Korea, Turkey, West Siberia) ( Grosso-Silva & Serrano 2000; Ślipinśki & Schuh 2008; Lee, Kim and Lim 2017; Samin et al. 2018; Otero & Ghahari 2020; Schuh 2020; Sürgüt 2022; Bacal 2023; Sürgüt & Varli 2023) ( Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ). The records of C. hirtus were absent for Kazakhstan ( Ślipinśki & Schuh 2008; Schuh 2020).

Note. The species was found along with pleasing fungus beetles ( Erotylidae ) – Dacne bipustulata (Thunberg, 1781) , Triplax aenea (Schaller, 1783) , T. rufipes (Fabricius, 1787) , T. scutellaris Charpentier, 1825 and Combocerus glaber (Schaller, 1783) , hairy fungus beetles ( Mycetophagidae ) – Mycetophagus quadripustulatus (Linnaeus, 1761) , M. piceus (Fabricius, 1777) , cerylonid beetles Cerylon impressum Erichson, 1845 ( Cerylonidae ) and dry fungus beetles ( Sphindidae ) Aspidiphorus orbiculatus (Gyllenhal, 1808) for which is also a new distribution records in Kazakhstan ( Temreshev 2019, 2022, 2024a, 2024b, 2025a, b, c).