Melanotini Candèze, 1859

Gabdullina, Aliya U. & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, First records of six species of click beetles (Coleoptera, Elateridae) from Kazakhstan, Ecologica Montenegrina 88, pp. 27-36 : 30

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scientific name	Melanotini Candèze, 1859
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Tribe Melanotini Candèze, 1859 (1848)

Melanotus (Melanotus) castanipes castanipes (Paykull, 1800) ( Figures 3 View Figures 1–6 , 10 View Figures 7–14 , 16 View Figures 15–20 , 21 View Figures 21 )

? Melanotus rufipes auct. nec Herbst, 1784: Cherepanov 1957: 247 (the records for Abay Region and EKR). Melanotus rufipes auct. nec Herbst, 1784: Gabdullina 2016: 65; Ormanova 2017: 27 (the records for EKR).

Studied material. 6 ♂♂, 1 ♀. Katonkaragay Distr., southern Altai, KKSNNP: Katon-Karagay Basin, Katonkaragay Vill. , 49°10'23.0"N, 85°36'35.0"E, 1055 m a.s.l., 27. V GoogleMaps .2015, A.U. Gabdullina leg. (1 ♂; DEUM); ibid., 31. V GoogleMaps .2006, A.U. Gabdullina leg. (1 ♂; KKNP); ibid., 31. V GoogleMaps .2006, R GoogleMaps . N. Krykbaeva leg. (1 ♂; KKNP); ibid., 15. VI GoogleMaps .2018, R GoogleMaps . A. Chelysheva leg. (1 ♂; DEUM); Sarymsakty MtR., Sad Landscape Unit , 49°08'43.0"N, 85°38'38.0"E, 1227 m a.s.l., 22. VI GoogleMaps .2006, A.S. Kusekova leg. (1 ♀; KKNP); Sarymsakty MtR., Zhana-Ulgo Vill. env., 11.VII.2009 , A.M. Tleppaeva leg. (1 ♂; KKNP); ibid., 1100 m a.s.l., 16.VII.2009, R . K. Kadyrbekov, A.M. Tleppaeva leg. (1 ♂; KKNP) .

Distribution. Europe; Russia (from European Russia to the Far East); Transcaucasia; Middle East; China; Pakistan; northern India; Southeast Asia; North America ( Platia & Schimmel 2001; Cate et al. 2007). Recorded from Kazakhstan for the first time. Although this species is widely distributed in the Palearctic, it has not been recorded from Kazakhstan earlier. However, the records of M. rufipes (= M. villosus Geoffroy, 1785 ) from eastern Kazakhstan in the study of Cherepanov (1957) may refer to M. castanipes . Part of the specimens of M. castanipes examined in our work were previously erroneously reported from EKR as M. rufipes ( Gabdullina 2016; Ormanova 2017); the other records of M. villosus from Kazakhstan also need in verification.

Bionomics. The species inhabits different types of forests ( Medvedev 2005). In EKR it was collected in the mixed forest belt (Sad Landscape Unit and environs of Zhana-Ulgo Vill.) ( Figure 16 View Figures 15–20 ) and at farmlands (Katonkaragay Vill.).