Tshernyshev S.E.1, Sergeev M.E.2 2024. Soft-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea: Malachiidae) of the Sikhote-Alinskii Nature Reserve, the Russian Far East // Euroasian Entomological Journal. Vol.23. No.6: 337–341 [in English].
1 Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Str. 11, Novosibirsk 630091 Russia. E-mail: sch-sch@mail.ru
2 Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity FEB RAS, Prospekt 100-letiya Vladivostoka 159, Vladivostok 690022 Russia. E-mail: eksgauster@inbox.ru
doi 10.15298/euroasentj.23.06.07
ABSTRACT. 14 species from 10 genera and 4 tribes of two subfamilies of the family Malachiidae have been recorded in the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve. This represents almost half of all species known from the Far Eastern region of North Asia and a quarter of the total species diversity of the area. The overwhelming majority of species are of Far Eastern distribution; only one species, Nepachys cardiacae (Linnaeus, 1761), is widespread in the Palaearctic, while two species, Cordylepherus facialis (Gebler, 1832) and Ebaeus (Ebaeus) transbaikalicus Pic, 1912, extend into Eastern Siberia, Mongolia, and Northeast China. The fauna of the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve reflects the specificity of the Far Eastern region and differs significantly from other regions of North Asia.
KEY WORDS: Soft-winged flower beetles, distribution, endemic, Northern Primorie.