Mycetochara ( Ernocharis ) angustifrons Reitter, 1899

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 : 401

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scientific name	Mycetochara ( Ernocharis ) angustifrons Reitter, 1899
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Mycetochara ( Ernocharis) angustifrons Reitter, 1899

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= Mycetochara ( Ernocharis) seidlitzi Reitter, 1899 , synonymized by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1983: 129)

Material. 1♀ ( ZIN), Russia, Krasnodar Region, Kamyshanova glade, 1200 m, Fagus and Abies , 21.vi.1982 (B.A. Korotyaev); 1♀ ( ZMSFU), Russia, Krasnodar Region, Mzymta valley, Engelmanova glade, 28.vii.1997 (M.V. Nabozhenko); 1♀ ( ZMSFU), Russia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Arkasara mountain range, 3.viii.1996 (D.G. Kasatkin); 2♂♂, 5♀♀ ( ZIN, PCMN), Russia, Karachay-Cherkessiya, Zakan, 15– 19.06.2025 (M.V. & S.V. Nabozhenko). 1♂, 4♀♀ ( PCMN), Georgia, Abkhazia, Amzhular natural boundary, 18–19.vi.2019, 1600–2000 m (A. Zubov).

Distribution. The species is distributed in the Western Caucasus. It is known from Russia ( Krasnodar Region, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Adygea), Georgia: Svanetia ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1983, Nikitsky et al. 2008, Nabozhenko et al. 2010; Novák 2020a; ZIN, ZMMU, PCMN) and Abkhazia (new record).

Notes. The name Mycetochara seidlitzi Reitter, 1899 was correctly synonymized with M. angustifrons Reitter, 1899 ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1983), but this synonymy was missed in the catalogue ( Novák 2020b). Mycetochara seidlitzi was described based on two females from Uch-Dere (now in Krasnodar Region, Russia) ( Reitter 1899), the same type locality as for M. angustifrons (was described by one male) ( Novák 2020a). The female syntype from HNHM (photograph was kindly provided by Vladimír Novák) is conspecific to those of M. angustifrons females.