Aspidiphorus orbiculatus (Gyllenhal, 1808)

Aspidiphorus orbiculatus (Gyllenhal, 1808)

( Fig. 1 View Figure 1 .)

Material. 2 ex. – 12.08.2024, North Kazakhstan, Akmola oblast, Burabai district, neighborhoods of Shchuchinsk village, N 52°58'10.02" E 70°15'28.69", mixed pine-birch forest, in Mealy oyster Ossicaulis lignatilis (Pers.) Redhead & Ginns on the trunk of European white birch Betula pendula Roth., I.I. Temreshev ; 1 ex. – 14.08.2024, North Kazakhstan, in the same place, in Pale Oyster mushroom Pleurotus pulmonarius (Fr.) Quél. , on the trunk of European white birch B. pendula, I.I. Temreshev ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ).

Remarks. Aspidiphorus orbiculatus is distributed in Europe ( Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica Island, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine), North Africa ( Algeria) and Asia ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, West Siberia, Russian Far East) ( Jacobson 1905 -1915, Kryzhanovsky 1965, Lafer 1992, Krasutsky 2005, Jelinek 2007, Nikitsky et al. 2008, Storozhenko 2009, Alexander & Anderson 2012, Ishkaeva & Grosheva 2013, Królik & Lasoń 2020, Perov & Aleksanov 2022) ( Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ). The records of A. orbiculatus and species from family Sphindidae were absent for Kazakhstan and Central Asia ( Jelinek 2007).

Note. Mushrooms Mealy oyster Ossicaulis lignatilis (Pers.) Redhead & Ginns and Pale Oyster mushroom Pleurotus pulmonarius (Fr.) Quél. were first recorded from Kazakhstan for A. orbiculatus . The species was found along with pleasing fungus beetles ( Erotylidae ) – Dacne bipustulata (Thunberg, 1781) , Triplax aenea (Schaller, 1783) , T. rufipes (Fabricius, 1787) and T. scutellaris Charpentier, 1825 , hairy fungus beetles ( Mycetophagidae ) – Mycetophagus quadripustulatus (Linnaeus, 1761) , M. piceus (Fabricius, 1777) , and cerylonid beetles Cerylon impressum Erichson, 1845 ( Cerylonidae ) for which is also a new distribution records in Kazakhstan ( Temreshev 2019, 2022, 2024a, 2024b, 2025).

Discussion

One species of dry fungus beetles ( Sphindidae ) Aspidiphorus orbiculatus is recorded for Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Previously, representatives of this family were not found in country. Since the species was discovered in North Kazakhstan, it can be assumed that in the future it will be found in the west and north of the country. These regions of the country border with the regions of the Russian Federation in which the was recorded.

Acknowledgements

Author thanks to Ilya Olegovich Kamaev ( Moscow, Russian Federation) and Sergey Alexandrovich Kurbatov ( Moscow, Russian Federation) for the opportunity to work with the collection of the entomological museum of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "All-Russian Center of Plant Quarantine", and anonymous reviewers the valuable comments that improved the manuscript.

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