The water beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) of North Ossetia. I. Dytiscidae, Noteridae, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae, Hydrophilidae, Hydrochidae, Spercheidae

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2013] and Dagestan [Brekhov et al., 2013;Brekhov, Ilyina, 2016]. The fauna of Karachay-Cherkessia has also been studied [Brekhov, 2009]. Studies on the fauna of water beetles of such regions as Stavropol Krai and North Ossetia have not been published yet. Moreover, there are only scattered records of species in Chechnya and Ingushetia. This shows the importance of the current study.Several papers present insufficient data on the fauna of the water beetles of

New records of beetles from families Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Hydraenidae, Helophoridae, Hydrophilidae, Scirtidae and Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from the North Caucasus

“…In the North Caucasus the species is recorded from "Tersk. " [Zaitzev, 1927: 38], Adygea [Shapovalov, 2010a], Dagestan [Brekhov et al, 2013] and North Ossetia [Shapovalov et al, 2018]. The first record for Kabardino-Balkaria.…”

“…Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Europe, Belarus, Ukraine, European part of Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Asian Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, West Siberia and Far East of Russia, China (Xinjiang), North America [Fikáček et al, 2015b]. In the North Caucasus the species is recorded from Adygea [Shapovalov, 2010b], Dagestan [Brekhov et al, 2013] and North Ossetia [Shapovalov et al, 2018]. The first record for Kabardino-Balkaria.…”

New records of the Hydrochidae beetle family (Coleoptera) from the Caucasus

“…Опубликованные ранее сведения о жуках-влаголюбах Северо-Западного Кавказа (Краснодарский край и Республика Адыгея), включают данные о 5 видах [Shapovalov, 2010;Shapovalov, Hiryanov, 2014]. Для Центрального Кавказа с территории Северной Осетии указан вид Hydrochus ignicollis Motschulsky, 1860 [Shapovalov et al, 2018]. Для Закавказья из Азербайджана известны виды: Hydrochus nodulifer Reitter, 1897, H. flavipennis Küster, 1852, H. roberti Shatrovskiy, 1993[Shatrovskiy, 1993.…”