Igor Alexandrowich Belousov

All-Russian Institute for Plant Protection (VIZR) · biological control

A new genus and new species of carabid beetle, Yalongaphaenops erwini gen. et sp. nov. , is described from mountains SW of Mianning City, Sichuan Province, China. This finding, from one side, extends the known distribution of Chinese hypogean trechines, and from another, it raises the upper limit of their vertical distribution to nearly 4000 m. Pho...

The main goal of the present paper is to define the kozlovi-species group of the genus Trechus Clairville, 1806, one of the most species-rich groups of Chinese Trechus and to describe new species of this group from two neighboring areas in Sichuan Province. Description of species groups for Chinese Trechus is a way to get a more consistent view of...

Aim. To present new data on the distribution of Carabid species in Dagestan, Russia. Material and Methods. The paper is based on material collected in the lowland areas of Dagestan. Conventional sampling techniques were used: hand collecting, UV light traps and pitfall traps.Results. The three following species of Carabidae have been found in Dages...

Five new species of the genus Trechus Clairville, 1806 are described from the eastern part of the Tien Shan mountains (China, Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region): T. tsanmensis sp. n. from the Narat Mountain Range, left bank of the Zanma River; T. torgaut sp. n. from the upper course of the Kunges River and Narat Mountain Range (both species belong t...

A new species group of Trechus Clairville, 1806 has been established to include two new rather isolated species of the genus from southern Gansu, China. Both species were collected in the high mountains located WSW of Longnan (= Wudu) City: T. glebisp. n. (from the valley, situated 8–11 km SE of Guazigou Village) and T. rhombussp. n. (from the sour...

Two new species of the tribe Trechini Bonelli, 1810 are described from the Hengduan Mountains in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, China: Agonotrechus spinangulus sp. n. (from the Kangwu Pass, Liziping Town, Muli County, southern Sichuan) and Sinotrechiama yunnanus sp. n. (from the Xiaobaicaoling Pass, Santai Town, Dayao County, Yunnan). A new collecti...

Himalotrechus humeratus gen. n., sp. n. is described from the easternmost portion of the Greater Himalaya in the Arunachal Pradesh State of India. The relationships of this new genus within Trechini are discussed based on the relevant characters in external and genital morphology. Himalotrechus gen. n. is likely to be a member of the Epaphiopsis Co...

Two new species of ground beetles of the genus Uenoites Belousov et Kabak, 2016 (tribe Trechini) are described from mountains of northern Myanmar: U. reuteri sp. n., and U. tibialis sp. n.. There are the first members of the genus found outside Yunnan Province of China. The taxonomic position of the new species within the genus is discussed based o...

The third fossil species of the genus Trechus Clairville, 1806 is described from Baltic amber: Trechusexhibitoriussp. n. Details of external and internal morphology were analysed using X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) and important diagnostic features of the internal male genital sac (endophallus) are described in detail for the first tim...

The genus Kozlovites (Carabidae: Trechini) is revised. A new synonymy is proposed: Kozlovites Jeannel 1935 = Deuveotrechus Uéno, 1995, syn. n. Four new species of the genus Kozlovites are described from Yunnan Province, China: K. major sp. n., K. modestus sp. n., K. niger sp. n., and K. amplipennis sp. n. Two species, Kozlovites yuae Deuve, 1992, c...

The book is the official document containing the data on species and subspecies of animals protected in the territory of the Republic of Crimea. It contains 370 species: 7 species of annelids, 12 species of mollusks, 217 species of arthropods and 134 species of chordates. The description of each species is accompanied by a color illustration and a...

Aim. Carabid species (Coleoptera, Carabidae) are listed for Tshetshen Island in the Caspian Sea, Dagestan. The study is based on examination of 32799 adult carabids belonging to 123 species from 49 genera collected in 2011-1013. One species - Sirdenus grayii (Wollaston, 1862) – is firstly recorded from the territory ofDagestan.Location. Materials f...

New data are given on the distribution of the carabids Clivinopsis conicicollis Reitter and Anaulacus (Aephnidius) ruficornis Chaudoir in the Caspain Lowland . Photographs of both species are provided and their distribution is mapped. C. conicicollis is for the first time recorded for Daghestan while members of the genus Anaulacus were not previous...

Puertrechus gen. n., related to both Dactylotrechus and Quiennectrechus Deuve, 1992 is established to accommodate two new trechine species: P. mengsaensis sp. n. (type species of the genus, type locality: Mountains East of Mengsa City, Lincang Prefecture, Yunnan, China) and P. daxueshanicus sp. n. (type locality: Daxueshan Mount, the same prefectur...

Six new species of the genus Junnanotrechus Uéno & Yin, 1993 are described from Yunnan Province, southern China: J. wrasei sp. n. (from the Diancang Shan Mt. R.), J. triporus sp. n. (from the mountains east of Weishan), J. schuelkei sp. n. (from the Ailao Shan Mountain Range), J. elegantulus sp. n. (from the Daxueshan Mount east of Mengsa Town), J....

Pachytrechodes brevis Belousov & Nyundo, new species, is described from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. This species is the first member of the genus found outside of the Uluguru Mountains. A key to the four currently known species of Pachytrechodes is included, based on Uéno's (1987) key. The distribution of all species is mapped.

Based on the information stored in the system of database management, biodiversity indices with special accent on measures of species richness are comparatively studied for Carabid beetles in various areas of the East Caucasus. Biodiversity indices are shown to be dependent on sampling or collecting techniques, sample size, geographic localization...

A new species of the genus Cimmerites Jeannel, 1928, C. maximovitchi sp. nov., is described from the Akhunskaya Cave and Labirintovaya Cave, both located in the Akhun Karst Massif on the Black Sea Coast of the West Caucasus (Krasnodar Territory, Russia). The new species is rather isolated within the genus Cimmerites and occupies an intermediate pos...

A new cave-dwelling species of the genus Cimmerites Jeannel, 1928 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini) from the West Caucasus Новый пещерный вид рода Cimmerites Jeannel, 1928

Amerizus teles n. sp. is described from the vicinity of the Teletskoe Lake (Altai Mountains). Surprisingly, the first known member of the genus recorded from the territory of Russia turned out to belong to the North American subgenus Amerizus ChauDoIr, 1868 and not to the Himalayan-Tibetan subgenus Tiruka anDrewes, 1935. For the time being, the Alt...

Meganophthalmus medvedevi Belousov et Koval, sp. n. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini), is described from eastern Abkhazia (type locality Golova Otapa Cave). Surprisingly, the new species turned out to be more closely related to Meganophthalmus kravetzi Komarov, 1993 from Kabardino-Balkaria than to the geographically neighboring Meganophthalmus mira...

Five new taxa of the genus Sinozolus Deuve are described: S. lopatini sp.n. and S. ovalis sp.n. from southern Gansu, S. micrangulus sp.n., S. micrangulus nigricornis ssp.n. and S. setosus sp.n. from different parts of Sichuan Province, southwestern China. Members of the genus are illustrated and keyed. The most important features of the genus, morp...

In the present work, 8 new species of the genus Queinnectrechus Deuve (Q. angusticollis sp.n.,Q. brevis sp.n., Q. guttula sp.n., Q. humeralis sp.n., Q. incisus sp.n., Q. janatai sp.n., Q. micrangulus sp.n. and Q. miroslavi sp.n.), 2 new species and one new subspecies of the genus Sinotrechiama Ueno (S. pilifer sp.n., S. pilifer discicollis ssp.n. a...

15 new species of the genus Epaphiopsis Uéno are described from the southern part of Sichuan Province, China. 10 species belong to the subgenus Epaphiama Jeannel: E. polita sp.n., E. similata sp.n. and E. intermedia sp.n. from the mountains southwest of the Bijishan village; E. laticolle sp.n. and E. inconspiqua sp.n. from the vicinity of Mount Yua...

Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, tribe Trechini

A new species of the genus Duvalius Delarouze, 1859 and 12 new species and a new subspecies of the genus Trechus Clairville, 1806 are described from China: Duvalius naratensis sp. n. from the Narat Mountain Range, Trechus inexspedatus sp. n. and T. bogdoensis sp. n. from the Bogda Shan Mountain Range, T. karlykensis sp. n. from the Karlyktag Mounta...

A new species of the genus Duvalius Delarouze, 1859 and 12 new species and a new subspecies of the genus Trechus Clairville, 1806 are described from China: Duvalius naratensis sp. n. from the Narat Mountain Range, Trechus inexspedatus sp. n. and T. bogdoensis sp. n. from the Bogda Shan Mountain Range, T. karlykensis sp. n. from the Karlyktag Mounta...

A New Species of the Genus Leistus (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from China. Belousov I. A., Kabak I. I. — Leistus (Evanoleistus) nanshanicus sp. n. from the Qilian Shan Mountain Range (China, prov. Gansu) is described. Its comparision with L. farkaci Sciaky is given.

Twelve new species of the genus Trechus Clairv. are decribed from central provinces of China; T. bogdani sp. n. from Zoige (Sichuan), T. boleslavisp. n. from Yuzhong (Gansu), T. labrangensis sp. n. from Labrang (Gansu), T. kurbatovi sp. n. from Xiling Mt. (Sichuan), T. janatai sp. n. from Labrang (Gansu), T. luquensis sp. n. from Luqu (Gansu), T. k...

A new species and a new subspecies of the genus Trechus were collected by the junior author in Turkestan mountain ridge in 1997. Both these taxa are described below. The morphometric characters used here follow those of Belousov & Kabak (1991, 1998). A total of 25 mesures was made for each specimen. To provide an exact information concerning the el...

A new species of the subgenus Cechenochilus Motschulsky (genus Carabus Linnaeus), C. lazorum n. sp., is described from the Lazistan Mt. Range, NE Turkey. The features distinguishing it from the closest Caucasian congener, C. boeberi Adams, are discussed, and the zoogeographical importance of the first find of Cechenochilus Motschulsky in Turkey is...

Duvalius putshkovi sp. n. is described from Kazakhstan (Western Tien-Shan, Ugam Mountain Range). The species belongs to the same species group as the most other representa­tives of the genus Duvalius Delar. from Middle Asia and is very closely related to Duvalius alexeevi Belousov, 1991 from Sary-Tshelek Reservation (western Tien-Shan. Chatkal Mou...

Five new species and one subspecies of the genus Trechus are desribed from the Altai Mountains : Trechus zintchenkoi, T. tesnensis, T. incisipenis, T. markakolensis, T. pulvinipenis spp.n. and T. pulvinipenis ivanensis subsp.n.

A new species of the genus Meganophthalmus Kurnakov, M. irinae sp. n., from the West Caucasus is described. The new species is easily recognizable by peculiar shape of pronotum with completely lacking marginal border. In some respects it is more similar to M. kravetzi Komarov from the Central Caucasus (Kabardino-Balkaria), in other to M. mirabilis...

The Nannotrechus complex appears to be a group of seven trechine genera restricted to the Caucasus, the Crimea, and Turkey. At least for the time being, the Caucasus harbors the bulk of subgeneric and specific diversity. No fewer than 39 species and 4 subspecies are described as new to science: Alanorites enigmaticus sp. n., A. labensis sp. n., A....

The second species of the genus Aepiblemus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) is described from Dzhungar Alatau (Kazakhstan)

A taxonomical review, based on re-examination of the types and extensive original materi­als of the Caucasian species of the subgenus Peryphanes Jeannel, 1941 (Coleptera: Carabidae: Bembidion Latreille, 1802) is given. Altogether, 8 species are recognized as valid within the area in question, three of them being new to science: Bembidion imereticum...

Twenty new species and four new subspecies of the genus Trechus CLAIRVILLE are described from the for­mer USSR: Trechus terskeiensis ukokensis ssp.n.(Kyrghyzstan) and T. suluk sp.n. (Kyrghyzstan), both from the T.terskeiensis species group; T. larisae sp.n.(Kyrghyzstan), T. aksuensis sp.n., T. tentek sp.n., T. kimak sp.n., T. mitjaevi sp.n., T. k...

A new species of the genus Duvalius Delarouzée, Duvalius miroshnikovi n.sp., from the West Caucasus is described. It seems to be strictly troglobitic and is easily distinguishable from the Caucasian congeners by strongly reduced elytral striae and aphenopsoid appearance.

Taniatrechus setosus,a new genus and species of highly specialized troglobiotic trechine carabids, is described from Abkhazia, western Caucasus. This aphaenopsoid species is similar in some characters of chaetotaxy to the Balkan genus Pheggomisetes Knirsch, but strongly differs from it in other characters. The new genus is assumed to be placed in t...

This study is based on extensive materials deriving mainly from the Inner and North Tien-Shan, and Dzhungarian Alatau Moun­tains .Altogether, 16 speciesand 6 subspecies belonging to the terskeiensis, adustus, and pavlovskii groups are introduced into science as new: T.merenicus sp.n. from Susamyr Mt. Range; T.alajensis sp.n. from Kitshik-Alai, T.tu...

Based on extensive material from the Caucasus and adjacent territories borrowed from Russian Museums and private collections (more than 3240 specimens) all Caucasian species of the subgenus Bembidionetolitzkya are treated and reviewed. As a result four new species of Bembidionetolitzkya are described: B. mingrelicum, B. motzfeldi, and B. pseudocyan...

Upon an examination of extensive materials deriving from collections housed at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg and those of the Berliner Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat as well as from several private collections, a taxonomic review of the species of the sectio Pantophyrtus Thieme of the...

Two species and three subspecies of the genus Carabus L. from the Caucasus are described as new: C. (Tribax) circassicus koshtanensis n.ssp. (Kabar­dino-Balkaria), C. (Tribax) onerosus n.sp. (W Georgia), C. (Tribax) apschuanus galianus n.ssp. (E. Abkhazia), C. ( Archiplectes) shtcburovin.sp. (Kabardino-Balkaria) and C. (Archiplectes) satyrus napra...

Six nouveaux taxa sont décrits du Tian-Chan: Trechus ferghanicus n. sp., T. batyr n. sp., T. goliath ashutorensis n. ssp., T. dulat n. sp., Leistus terskeiensis n. sp. Brachinus kryzhanovskii n. sp. Trechus medvedevi Jeannel est déplacé dans le genre Oroblemites Uéno et Pawlowski. Oroblemites tianshanicus Ueno et Palowski est mis en synonymie avec...

New species of the genus Carabus L. from the Caucasus (Coleoptera, Cara­bidae) - The following species and subspecies of the genus Carabus L. new to science are described, all from the Caucasus: C. (Archiplectes) faunus aisrrensis n. ssp., C.(Archiplectes) heikertingeri okumicus n. ssp., C. (Archiplectes) protensoides olegi n. ssp., C. (Archiplecte...

A new species of Agonum Bon. most closely related to A. willbergi (Rtt. 1891) has been described from the Fergansky Mt. Range, Soviet Middle Asia: A. ferghanicum sp. n.

В результате обработки многолетних сборов автора, богатых сборов Г. Э. Да- видяна, А. Г. Коваля, И. М. Соколова (все — Ленинград), С. К. Алексеева, В. В. Белова, А. Б. Рывкина (все — Москва), А. С. Замотайлова (Краснодар) и Е. В. Комарова (Волгоград), а также коллекций Зоологического института АН СССР (Ленинград) обнаружено 18 новых видов и оди...

Bembidion sevanense n. sp. is described from South-Azerbaidzhan (Transcaucasus); B. sevanense asiorum n. sbsp. occurs in the Great Caucasus. The new species belongs to the subgenus Ocyturanes in the relationship of the B. tauricum-group.

Bembidion avaricum sp.n. from central and eastern Caucasus is described. For Caucasian form of B. terminale Heer the taxonomic rank is re-established and the valid name for this form is the senior synonym B. pulcherrimum Mots. B. kirgisorum Net. is also treated as a distinct species, not a subspecies of B. terminale Heer

При анализе коллекций Зоологического института АН СССР (ЗИН АН СССР), Зоологического музея Московского государственного университета (МГУ), сборов автора и любезно переданных на изучение сборов Б. М. Катаева и А. Г. Коваля было обнаружено 8 новых видов рода Trechus Clairv. группы Т. liopleums Chd. в понимании Жаннеля (Jeannel, 1960). К этой группе...