Mikhailov Yu.E. 2025. Rare and endemic for the South Urals species of coleopterans (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Chrysomelidae): new records from Mashak and Zigalga mountain ranges, Russia // Euroasian Entomological Journal. Vol.24. No.6: 327–334 [in English].
Ural State Forest Engineering University, Sibirsky Trakt 37, Yekaterinburg 620100 Russia; Ural Federal University, Mira Str.19, Yekaterinburg 620062 Russia. E-mail: yum_66@mail.ru
doi 10.15298/euroasentj.24.06.06
ABSTRACT. In 2024 and 2025 in the State Nature Reserve «Yuzhno-Uralskii» species composition of herpetobiont coleopterans was first surveyed at the highest summit of Zigalga Mountain Range and previously completely unexplored Mashak Mountain Range. Carabus (Morphocarabus) karpinskii Kryzhanovskij et Matveev, 1993, the only endemic species for the Urals from this genus, was found in alpine tundra of Bolshoi Shelom Mountain (Zigalga Mountain Range) and three surveyed summits of Mashak Mountain Range, namely: Medvezh’ya Mountain, Shirokaya Mountain and Kobeya Mountain. Along with C. karpinskii one more species of the genus, C. (Oreocarabus) glabratus Paykull, 1780, was recorded at the southern sector of Medvezh’ya Mountain, this is the first finding of this species in the alpine zone of the South Urals. The endemic ground beetle of the South Urals Nebria (Boreonebria) uralensis Glasunov, 1901 was found at Shirokaya Mountain. The leaf beetle Chrysolina (Pleurosticha) lagunovi Mikhailov, 2007, previously known in the Republic of Bashkortostan only from the Iremel Massif, was newly registered for alpine tundra of Medvezh’ya and Shirokaya mountains. However, breeding in cages showed that Chrysolina lagunovi from Mashak Mountain Range didn’t feed on Anemonastrum biarmiense (Juz.) Holub, the main host plant of this species in all previously known locations. The leaf beetle Chrysolina (Arctolina) poretzkyi (Jacobson, 1897) was firstly collected in the tall herbage meadows of Kharitonova Mountain and Yagodnaya Mountain.
KEY WORDS: Carabidae, Chrysomelidae, Carabus karpinskii, Nebria uralensis, Chrysolina lagunovi, Chrysolina poretzkyi, endemics, new record, alpine tundra, South Urals.