Allecula rhenana Bach, 1856

Nabozhenko, M. V., 2025, COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS ALLECULA FABRICIUS, 1801 (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE) IN RUSSIA WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES, Far Eastern Entomologist 518, pp. 1-13 : 5

Allecula rhenana Bach, 1856

Figs 13–19

MATERIAL EXAMINED. ( ZIN), Russia: Stavropol Krai, Lermontov env., Beshtau Mt. , light trap, 25–27.VII 2015, 1♂ ( E.N. Terskov); Abkhazia: Tsadripsh near Russian border, 15.VIII 2011, 1♂ ( E.A. Khachikov) .

NOTES. The shape of the aedeagus imaged (outline drawing) in Novák et al. (2011) differs from those in our specimen from Russia and similar to A. olexai dorsally and to European specimens of A. rhenana laterally. This difference is probably due to a slight deformation of the parameres during drying. The photo presented here was taken with the newly dissected aedeagus.

DISTRIBUTION. Widespread in Europe east to the Caucasus and Iran ( Novák, 2023). This species was listed from Transcaucasia ( Dubrovina, 1978; Dubrovina et al., 1979): Abkhazia (Sukhum) and Georgia (Borjomi). In Russia, A. rhenana was known only from Ubinskaya ( Dubrovina, 1978) and Guzeripl’ of Krasnodar Krai ( Nikitsky et al., 2008; Nabozhenko et al., 2010). Beshtau (Western Ciscaucasia) is the easternmost locality of the species in the North Caucasus and Russia.

Figures

Figs 13–19. Allecula rhenana, male habitus and details. 13 – habitus; 14 – head and pronotum; 15 – elytra; 16 – aedeagus ventral; 17 – aedeagus dorsal; 18 – inner sternite and tergite VIII; 19 – spiculum gastrale.