Anthracus consputus (DUFTSCHMID, 1812)

Material examined Tadzhikistan STadzhikistan, TigrovayaBalka,31.7- 8.VIII.2000, V. Perepechaenko (1♀ - SIZK); same data, but 1-8.VIII.2000, O.V. Pak (1 - SIZK) .

Widely distributed in the western part of the Palaearctic from North West Africa and the Iberian Peninsula to West Siberia and East Kazakhstan. In Middle Asia, the species was known from Kyrgyzstan (OVCHINNIKOV 1996: 104), Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan (JAEGER & KATAEV 2003: 399). The species is recorded here for Tadzhikistan for the first time.