A study on the genus Chrysolina MOTSCHULSKY, 1860, with a ...

118 ANDRZEJ BIEÑKOWSKI
MATERIAL
Ch. marginata: Bering Sea, Gulf of Anadyr, Providence Bay, 31.8.1910: 4
males, 2 females, STAROKAD leg.
19. Ch. marginata borealis is found at Taimyr Peninsula for the first time:
Taimyr: Tareia, 8.8.1966: 1 male, Yu. I. CHERNOV leg.
20. I compared the original description and figures of aedeagus of
Ch. elbursica with the specimens of Ch. tesari and found these two species to be
morphologically very close. Ch. elbursica differs from Ch. tesari only in the
larger body and blackish bronze elytra bearing narrower rufous lateral stripe.
Recently, I found Ch. elbursica from Western Turkmenistan (BIEÑKOWSKI 1997,
determined as Ch. tesari). Ch. tesari and Ch. elbursica have adjoing allopatric
areas, are rather close externally and have identical aedeagi, so I believe that
Ch. elbursica should be considered as a subspecies of Ch. tesari.
MATERIAL
Ch. tesari tesari: Russia: Ingushia: Salgi, 29.7.1927: 1 female, KIRICHENKO
leg., North-Ossetia: Alagir canyon, Unal, Tragakantniki, 1100 m, 15.9.1988: 1
male, N.A. SHEVCHENKO leg; Azerbaijan: Lenkoran, 6.7.1901: 1 male, ZAVADSKY leg.
Ch. tesari elbursica: Turkmenistan: Bolshoi Balkhan ridge, N slope, 8.5.1976:
1 male, 3 females, G.S. MEDVEDEV leg.; „Trans Caspi. Eylandt [leg.]”: 1 male;
„Transcaspia, in montibus prope Germab”: 1 female, V. PELTZ leg.
21. KONTKANEN (1957), MOHR (1966a), and LOPATIN (1970, 1977) considered
Ch. unicolor as a member of the subgenus Pezocrosita. However, this species has
wholly developed hind wings and thrice curved aedeagus with bottle-shaped
apex (Fig. 9). These characters permit me to transfer Ch. unicolor to the subgenus
Chalcoidea.
MATERIAL
Ch. unicolor: Kyrghyzstan: Issyk Kul, At-Bashyr, 2600 m, 18.9.1969: 1
male, 1 female; Issyk Kul, Kadzi-Sai, 11.7.1994: 1 female, D.A. MILKO leg.;
Naryn, 7-18.7.1923: 1 female, B. KUSIN leg.; Sarydzhas river, envir. Kensu,
7.1962: 1 male, KULIKOV leg.; Kirghizskii Mount., envir. Talas, 1600 m, 27.7.1988:
1 female; Kazakhstan: Alma-Ata reg., Khorgos, 29.5.1965: 2 females, E. SOKOLOV
leg.
22. MEDVEDEV (1976) transferred Crosita alaschanica and C. przewalskyi to
the genus Chrysolina, but did not include them in any subgenus. I think that these
species belong to the subgenus Chrysocrosita because of the following combination
of characters: last segment of maxillary palpus broader than long, transversely
truncate, not sexually dimorphic; pronotum bears convex lateral callus