Leptura aurulenta (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), a new record of a very rare species in Russia

Abstract

The paper presents data on a new record of a very rare insect, Leptura aurulenta (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), in the Mordovia State Nature Reserve (Russia). This is a third reliable registration of this species within Russia. It expands the range of this beetle to 600 km to the east. We have presented an original biotope description, data on distribution and biology of L. aurulenta.Key words: Coleoptera, Leptura aurulenta, Mordovia State Nature Reserve, new record IntroductionThe Mordovia State Nature Reserve is located in the Temnikov district of the Republic of Mordovia. It belongs to the Central Russian subprovince of the Eastern European province of the European broad-leaved forest region on the wooded rightbank of the River Moksha (Gribova et al., 1980). The forest-steppe naturally marks the boundary of the protected area from the south. The climate of the Mordovia Reserve is related to the Atlanticcontinental region of the temperate zone (Gafferberg, 2015). Intensive entomological studies of recent years have shown many new and interesting findings of Coleoptera species in the Mordovia Reserve area (Legalov et al., 2014;Egorov et al., 2015Egorov et al., , 2016Egorov & Shapovalov, 2017;Semenov, 2017).The family of longicorn beetles (Cerambycidae) belongs to one of the most interesting taxonomic groups of Coleoptera. In ecosystems, the species of this family participate, first of all, in the wood biodegradation (at larval stage) and pollination of flowering plants (imago). The longicorn beetles' research is also important for biodiversity study. However, some species of longicorns are very rare and listed in the Red Data Books on federal and regional level. The present report contains information about the discovery of the rarest longicorn beetle in Russia -Leptura aurulenta Fabricius, 1793 in the Mordovia State Nature Reserve. MaterialThe Republic of Mordovia, Temnikov district, 17 km NW from the city of Temnikov, Mordovia State Nature Reserve, forest square 324, 15.07.2017, 1 specimen, A.B. Ruchin (Fig. 1). The specimen was transferred to the collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia). Description of the biotopeThe female L. aurulenta was caught on the western narrow clearing of forest square 324 of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve. The beetle sat on the inflorescence of a plant of the Apiaceae family. This quarter has a developed forest and meadow vegetation. In the south-western and north-western corners of this quarter there are small areas of ripening and ripe lime trees, in the stand of which occur sparsely Quercus robur L., ============ КРАТКИЕ СООБЩЕНИЯ ============ =========== SHORT COMMUNICATIONS ==========89 small areas in the central, eastern and southeastern parts of the forest quarter (Fig. 2). The eastern half of the quarter and part of the western half are occupied by swampy alder (Alnus glutinosa) forest with Padus avium and Humulus lupulus in the undergrowth, and Glyceria maxima (C. Hartm.) Holmb., Carex acuta L., C. riparia Curt. an...

Notes on the fauna of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) adjacent to the territory of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve

“…However, the last 15 years have showed an ever-increasing interest in research (Egorov, Ruchin 2012;Egorov et al 2010;2020b). The studies explore separate families (Feoktistov 2008;Semenov 2015;Ruchin et al 2018;Kovalev, Egorov 2017;Mandelshtam, Egorov 2018; as well as some of the most interesting species (Egorov 2017;Egorov, Shapovalov 2017;Ruchin, Egorov 2018a;2018b;2018c;2018d;2018f;Tomaszewska et al 2018;Kazantsev et al 2019;Ruchin et al , 2019b, including those from the Red Books (Ruchin, Kurmaeva 2010;. To date, according to our data, 2,145 species from 88 Coleoptera families have been recorded from the Mordovia State Nature Reserve (Egorov et al 2020a).…”

Checklist of the Coleoptera of Mordovia State Nature Reserve, Russia

“…Besides these groups, the Coleoptera fauna was hardly studied until the 2000s. More intensive research has been carried out using a variety of methods in the reserve over the past 12 years (Kurmaeva et al 2008, Egorov et al 2010, Feoktistov 2011, Egorov and Ruchin 2012, 2013a, 2013b, 2014, Pavlov and Ruchin 2013, Legalov et al 2014, Egorov et al 2015, Egorov 2017, Sazhnev 2017, Ruchin and Egorov 2018a, 2018d, 2018e, 2019b, Tomaszewska et al 2018, Kazantsev et al 2019, 2019c. There are published data on individual families: Carabidae (Feoktistov 2008, Staphylinidae (Semenov 2014, Kurbatov and Egorov 2014, Semenov 2015, Scydmaenidae (Kurbatov and Egorov 2014), Curculionidae (Scolytinae) (Mandelshtam and Egorov 2017.…”

To robber flies fauna (Diptera: Asilidae) of Mordovia, Russia

“…During the last decade, we studied the biological diversity of various insect groups of the Republic of Mordovia. This allowed us to identify many rare species and make species lists of some families (Ruchin and Kurmaeva 2010;Ruchin and Artaev 2016;Semenov 2016;Ruchin and Egorov 2017a, 2017b, 2018c, 2018dRuchin and Makarkin 2017;Ruchin 2018;Ruchin and Grishutkin 2018;Ruchin and Mikhailenko 2018;Ruchin et al , 2019aRuchin et al , 2019bTomaszewska et al 2018;Ruchin and Antropov 2019). However, Diptera representatives are still underexplored group.…”