Mycetochara ( Pterna ) auricoma (Reitter, 1884)

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 : 420

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5706.3.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17883358
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scientific name	Mycetochara ( Pterna ) auricoma (Reitter, 1884)
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Mycetochara ( Pterna) auricoma (Reitter, 1884)

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Material. We examined more than 20 specimens in the collection of ZMMU (Crimea, Lower Volga region, W Kazakhstan), listed by Dubrovina (1976).

10 specimens ( ZIN), Russia, Stavropol Region, Divnoe , 19.v.1953 ( O.L. Kryzhanovskij) ; 1♂, 1♀ ( ZIN), Russia, Krasnodar Region, Taman Peninsula, Volna , marine coast, 23. v. and 21.vi.1979 ( B.A. Korotyaev) ; 1♀ ( ZIN), Russia, Krasnodar Region, Taman Peninsula, Taman , 27.v.1979 ( B.A. Korotyaev) ; 2♂♂, 3♀♀ ( ZMSFU), Russia, Kalmykia, Lysyy Liman Lake , 8.vi.1977 ( Kuznetsova) ; 1♀ ( ZMSFU), Russia, Rostov Region, Rostov State Reserve, Manych-Gudilo Lake, Vodny island , 2.vi.2017 ( E.A. Khachikov) ; 1♀ ( PCEK), Russia, Volgograd Region, Volgograd, Sovetsky District , 3.5 km NE of Vodny village, 48°36’52.54”N, 44°13’7.13”E, five-year fallow, soil trap, 13.vi.2024 ( E.V. Komarov) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Widely distributed in steppes (usually saline habitats) from mouth of the Danube in Odessa Region of Ukraine through Crimean and Taman peninsulas, Rostov, Stavropol and Volgograd regions, Kalmykia to Western Kazakhstan (Zhanybek) in the east ( Dubrovina 1976).