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(unpublished data) and Chernihiv Region in Ukraine [43]) possibly indicate the areal
expanding westward and northward due to climate changes. From this point of view our
finding of A. leucaspis in Zakarpattya Region is a part of climate change event. Nevertheless,
further studies are required.
Biogeography. Surprisingly, biogeographical position of A. leucaspis is still unclear.
Multiple authors provide very different views on A. leucaspis biogeography. Zahaykevych
considered that A. leucaspis belongs to Pontic species [51]. Karpiński with colleagues [22]
and Kadyrbekov and Tleppaeva [20] suggested A. leucaspis is West Palearctic polyzonal
species. Pil and Stanković argued that A. leucaspis belong to Ponto-Mediterranean species,
distributed in Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Siberia [31]. Abdurakmanov indicated
A. leucaspis as Euro-Siberian species [3] and Özdikmen similarly nested it within Sibero-
European species [30]. Danilevskaya with colleagues noted that A. leucaspis is an ordinary
Palaearctic species [10]. Georgiev with colleagues classified A. leucaspis to Transpalaearctic
species [15]. Finally, Shapovalov suggested that A. leucaspis belong to Transeurasiatic
polyzonal species [42]. Such uncertainty in A. leucaspis biogeographical view caused by poor
data on its distribution. We conducted comprehensive analysis of available published sources
for reconstruction of the current areal of A. leucaspis (Fig. 2A).
A. leucaspis is known from: Armenia: Armavir marz, Lori marz [6]; Austria:
Burgenland [6, 12]; Azerbaijan: present, administrative region is not specified [11]; Bosnia
and Herzegovina: present, administrative region is not specified [24]; Bulgaria:
Blagoevgrad Province, Burgas Province, Gabrovo Province, Plovdiv Province, Sliven
Province, Smolyan Province [9, 14, 15, 33]; China: North-West China, Inner Mongolia [47];
Croatia: present, administrative region is not specified [8]; Czech Republic: Středočeský
kraj, Zlínský kraj [44, 45]; Georgia: present, administrative region is not specified [11];
Greece: widespread in continental part [32]; Hungary: Bács-Kiskun megye, Budapest, Pest
megye, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye [17, 23, 26]; Iran: ?West Azerbaijan Province [6];
Kazakstan: Almaty Region, East Kazakhstan Region, Jambyl Region, Kostanay Region [7,
19, 20, 22]; Moldova: present, administrative region is not specified [4]; Mongolia: West
Mongolia, Mongolian Plateau, Selenge [27, 47]; North Macedonia: present, administrative
region is not specified [24]; Serbia: Južnobački okrug, Sremski okrug [31]; Slovakia:
Košicky kraj, Nitriansky kraj [35]; Slovenia: ? possibly present [8]; Romania: Bucuresti,
Judetul Constanța, Judetul Ilfov, Judetul Mures, Judetul Sibiu, Judetul Tulcea, Judetul Valcea
[18, 40, 41]; Russia: Adygheya Republic, Altai Krai, Dagestan Republic, Irkutsk Oblast,
Kalmykia Republic, Krasnodar Krai, ?Mordovia Republic, Orenburg oblast, Rostov Oblast,
Saratov Oblast [1, 38, 42, 46, 52]; Tajikistan: Khatlon Viloyati, Republic Regions, Sughd
Viloyati [21]; Turkey: Ankara, Corum, East Thrace [29, 30, 37]; Ukraine: Chernihiv
Region, Cherkasy Region, Crimea Region, Donetsk Region, Zaporizhzha Region,
Zakarpattya Region (current study), Kharkiv Region, Kherson Region, Kyiv (unpublished
data), Luhansk Region, Mykolayiv Region, Odesa Region, [6, 25, 28, 43].
The current areal of A. leucaspis coincides strictly with steppes spreading within Eurasia.
The westernmost boundary of the areal restricted by Central European mountains: Dinaric
Mountains, The Alps, Ore Mountains and The Carpathians. The northern limits of
A. leucaspis spreading coincides with bounds of the steppe biome in Eastern Europe and
North Asia. A. leucaspis reaches The South Ural Mountains and eastward as far as Baikalia.
The eastern border of the areal is unclear. According to Xu and Neng A. leucaspis is
widespread on Mongolian Plateau [47]. We assume that A. leucaspis distribution is bounded