Kazantsev S.V. 2025. A new species of Malthodes Kiesenwetter, 1852 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from the Greater Caucasus // Euroasian Entomological Journal. Vol.24. No.5: 267–271 [in English].
Insect Centre, Donetskaya 13-326, Moscow 109651 Russia. E-mail: kazantss@mail.ru https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6982-3337
doi 10.15298/euroasentj.24.05.08
ABSTRACT. A new species of the genus Malthodes Kiesenwetter, 1852, M. samegreloensis Kazantsev sp.n., is described from the Greater Caucasus (Samegrelo-Upper Svaneti province in northwestern Georgia). The new species somewhat resembles another Caucasian species, M. circassicus Švihla, 1980, as well as M. debilis Kiesenwetter, 1852, from the adjacent plains to the north. The ultimate abdominal segments of males of the three species and their aedeagi are illustrated by colour photographs, and their distribution is presented on a map.
KEY WORDS: Coleoptera, Cantharidae, Malthininae, Malthodes, new species, Caucasus, Palaearctic.