Microdera campestris ( Steven, 1828 )

Bekchanov, Norbek Kh., Nabozhenko, Maxim V., Bekchanov, Khudaybergan U. & Bekchanova, Mokhira Kh., 2025, A review of the genus Microdera Eschscholtz, 1831 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Uzbekistan, Zootaxa 5590 (4), pp. 451-480 : 456

Microdera campestris ( Steven, 1828)

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Tentyria campestris Steven 1828: 93 .

= Microdera gracilis Eschscholtz 1831: 6 ; Pirnazarov, 1973: 15.

= Rostrax menetriesii Fischer von Waldheim 1844: 68.

= Microdera macrops Reitter 1915: 93 .

= Microdera campestris karanogaica Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko 2011: 183 .

Type material examined. See in Nabozhenko & Kalashian (2022).

Notes. We didn’t collect this species. Our images are based on the specimens from supralittoral sand of the Aral Sea on the former Barsakelmes Island in Kazakhstan (very close area to the western coast of former Aral). The synonymy was proposed and argued in details by Nabozhenko & Kalashian (2022).

Distribution. European part of Russia: Caspian depression ( Nabozhenko & Kalashian 2022), Kazakhstan (from the Caspian Depression across Aral sands to middle reaches of the Syr Darya: Kyzylorda), Uzbekistan: sandy supralittoral zone of the western coast of the Aral Sea ( Pirnazarov 1973).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Microdera campestris, habitus, details. A = male, dorsally; B = epistome; C = head and pronotum; D = prothorax ventro-laterally; E = mesoventrite; F = abdominal ventrite 5, strictly horizontally; G = apex of abdominal ventrite 5, posterior view; H = metatibia, extensor side.