Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 82. (Budapest 1990)
Angelini, F.: Anisotomini from the Caucasus (Coleoptera, Leiodidae)
ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Tomus82. Budapest, 1990 p. 91-122. Anisotomini from the Caucasus (Coleoptera, Leiodidae) by F. ANGELINI, Francavilla Fontana F. ANGELINI: Anisotomini from the Caucasus (Coleoptera, Leiodidae). - Annls hist.-nat. Mus, natn. hung. 1990, B_2: 91-122. Abstract - 32 species of Anisotomini known from the Caucasus are treated; of these three are new for the region: Amphycillis globiformis SAHLBERG, Aniso- toma humeralis FABRICIUS and Agathidium brisouti REITTER. Six species appear endemic to the Caucasus while five are present only is adjacent Regions (northern Iran, Turkey of the Crimea) out of the Caucasus. A key to the Anisotomini species of the Caucasus is given and the locality data of the material studied are recorded. With 126 figures and 2 tables. INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL NOTES The purpose of the present notes is to submit known data for the Anisotomini from the Caucasus based on the study materials secured at the end of the last century by LEDER and REITTER and, in 1910, by ROUBAL and recently, by Prof. H. C. HERBERT FRANZ, Dr. S. I. G0L0VATCH, Dr. S. M. JABL0K0FFKHNZORIAN and Prof. J. MARTENS as well as to furnish a dichotomous key for easy identification of the species. During this work I have met whit the same difficulties previously encountered by ANGELINI & DE MARZO (1983: 47) and ANGELINI (1988: 11) for North Africa and Japan, respectively. The first 12 species of Anisotomini from the Caucasus were recoraea or described by REITTER (in SCHNEIDER 1877); between 1883 and 1898 he recorded or described 14 species in 5 different works; a few years later ROUBAL (1911) described Agathidium meguignoni ; 30 years later more new records were given by HORION (1949) ( Agathid iürrTnigrinum STURM and A. mandibulare STURM); and more recently HLISNIKOVSKY (1964) described further 7 new species; most recently ANGELINI & DE MARZO (1983) described Agathidium pseudobescidicum which occurs in the Caucasus and previously misidentified by REITTER as A. bescidi- cum . REITTER (in HEYDEN et al. 1891) has not confirmed the presence of A. si- cul um BRISOUT (= A. seminulum LINNAEUS) doubtfully recorded by him previously (REITTER 1888). ANGELINI (1986, 1988) has put in synonymy 6 species described by HLISNIKOVSKY. Considering the new records of Amphycillis globiformis SAHLBERG, Anisotoma humeralis FABRICIUS and Agathidium brisouti REITTER, the tribe Anisotomini known from the Caucasus now totals 32 species representing 4 of the 7 palearctic genera (the genus Ansibaris being included by NEWTON in litt, belongs to another tribe). Contribution to the fauna of the Caucasus, conducted by S. I. G0L0VATCH and J. MARTENS, No. 20. - No. 19.: Senckenbergiana biol., 7_0(4/6), 1990. - Sponsored by Soviet Academy of Sciences (S.I.G., J.M.) and German Research Society (J.M.).
