Abstract
New data on the distribution, occurrence and ecology of 19 rare and little-known species of Caraboidea from 14 genera were obtained in the result of research at Steppe zone of Ukraine. Herein, Parophonus hirsutulus is given for the fauna of Ukraine for the first time, while Cicindela sylvatica and Carabus coriaceus are recorded for the first time in the Steppe zone. The species Poecilus nitens, Carterus angustipennis lutschniki and Eucarterus sparsutus are registered for the first time in mainland Ukraine, and Acinopus ammophilus is newly found at the steppe of Left-bank Ukraine. The distribution of six rare species in the Steppe zone of Ukraine is specified, namely Calathus mollis, Ophonus minimus, Parophonus planicollis, Ditomus calidonius oriens, Masoreus wetterhallii, and Mastax thermarum. The seasonal occurrence of subspecies Cephalota deserticola sivashensis and Carabus sibiricus errans in biotopes is analyzed. New data on four species of ground beetles protected by the Red Data Book of Ukraine (Cephalota besseri, Carabus hungaricus, Parazuphium chevrolatii, Carterus dama) is provided.
Highlights
The areals’ boundaries of coleopteran species, among which the ground beetles (Caraboidea) are one of the dominant groups, are constantly specified
New localities are found for three species protected by the Red Data Book of Ukraine (2009)
The southern distributional border of C. sylvatica in Ukraine had been previously known as passing along the line: Carpathians – Podolia – Dnieper Uplandy – Poltava – Kharkiv. This species is recorded in the Steppe zone of Ukraine, at the northern part of Donetsk Region, where the forests areas penetrate into the steppe areas along the basin of the Siverskyi Donets River: the species’ areal is expanded for almost 100 km southwards
Summary
The areals’ boundaries of coleopteran species, among which the ground beetles (Caraboidea) are one of the dominant groups, are constantly specified This is important for compiling the faunistic catalogues and Red Data Books of different geographical territories. A number of new records for some ground beetles in separate geographic zones or subzones have been published over the past decades. Some of these species were not given for Ukraine both in some checklists (Kryzhanovskij et al, 1995; Putchkov, 2018) and in the Catalogue of the suborder Adephaga of the Palearctic (Catalogue..., 2017). The authors of Catalogue that worked on Caraboidea lacked some literature, especially those published as small regional summaries on ground beetles (abstracts, for example)
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