Ampedini Gistel, 1848

Tribe Ampedini Gistel, 1848

Ampedus (Ampedus) karpathicus (Buysson, 1886) ( Figure 2 View Figures 1–6 )

Studied material. 1 ♀. Katonkaragay Distr., southern Altai, Sarymsakty MtR., KKSNNP, Zhana-Ulga Vill. env., 1200 m a.s.l., 13.VII.2009, A.M. Tleppaeva leg. ( DEUM) .

Distribution. Europe (except southern Europe) ( Cate et al. 2007). In Russia this species is recorded from northern and central European Russia ( Prosvirov & Polumordinov 2023). Recorded from Kazakhstan for the first time. The distribution of this species remains little-known. The present finding extends the known range of A. karpathicus far to the east. It is likely that this species is also distributed in Siberia and other regions adjacent to EKR.

Bionomics. The European populations of A. karpathicus inhabit mainly different types of coniferous forests; the larvae develop in rotten wood of fallen trunks and stumps ( Mertlik 2018). In EKR the species was collected in the mixed forest belt dominated by Betula sp. and Larix sibirica .