Mycetochara ( Ernocharis ) gracilis (Faldermann, 1837)

Nabozhenko, Maxim V., Martynov, Vladimir V. & Bulysheva, Natalia I., 2025, Two new species of Mycetochara Guérin-Méneville, 1827 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae) from the Northern Cis-Azov region and the Northwestern Caucasus (Russia) with a new synonymy and a key to species of the European part of Russia, Zootaxa 5706 (3), pp. 397-425 : 404

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5706.3.5
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scientific name	Mycetochara ( Ernocharis ) gracilis (Faldermann, 1837)
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Mycetochara ( Ernocharis) gracilis (Faldermann, 1837)

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Material. 1♂ ( ZMMU), Russia, Krasnodar Region, Ubinskaya , 18.v.1975 ( V. Belov) ; 1♀ ( ZMMU), Russia, Stavropol Region, Pyatigorsk , 24.v.1911 ( B. Il’in) ; 1♀ ( ZMMU), Russia, Stavropol Region, Zheleznovodsk, 1913 (collection of Artobolevsky) ; 1♂ ( ZMSFU), same locality, 5.vi.1949 ( A.P. Runich) ; 1♀ ( ZMSFU), same locality, forest, 26.vi.1949 ( A.P. Runich) ; 1♀ ( ZMSFU), Russia, Rostov Region, Rostov-on-Don , 7.vi.1991 ( E.A. Khachikov) .

Notes. All specimens from ZMMU are additionally labeled as “ Holotypus [ Paratypus] Mycetochara ( Ernocharis) ciscaucasica Dubr. ”, but this “taxon” was not described. We compared Armenian specimens of M. gracilis , collected and examined by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1983) ( PCMK) and specimens from the North Caucasus and didn’t find significant differences.

Distribution. The species was described from “Transcaucasia” and occurs in Armenia, Georgia and the Caucasian Black Sea coast ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1983). In Russia, M. gracilis is a very rare species, which is known only by several specimens from the Caucasian Mineral Waters area and Krasnodar Region. One female was collected in Cis-Azov Region (Rostov-on-Don). This specimen can be a result of unintentional invasion of this species from the resorts “Caucasian Mineral Waters” with planting material for landscaping Rostov-on-Don.

Bionomics. The species was collected on maples in Armenia ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1983).