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Наукові записки Державного природознавчого музею. Випуск 38 (Львів, 2022)
Proceedings of the State Natural History Museum. Issue 38 (Lviv, 2022)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36885/nzdpm.2022.38.183-188

UDC 595.763.33

Glotov S.V.

A REVIEW OF THE GENUS AMISCHA THOMSON, 1858 (COLEOPTERA,
STAPHYLINIDAE: ALEOCHARINAE) OF UKRAINE

The work summarizes information about the finds of species of the genus Amischa based
on the study of collections stored on the territory of the country, collected in different
administrative regions of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. As a result of the
research, it was established that the genus Amischa is represented in Ukraine by four species
(A. analis, A. bifoveolata, A. decipiens, A. nigrofusca). Data on ecological features and
distribution of the identified species are presented. The obtained results can be used to solve a
number of theoretical issues of fauna, zoogeography and ecology, as well as in the preparation
of the fauna cadastre of Ukraine, for comparative faunal studies, analysis of the distribution of
species, biogeographic structures, study of faunogenesis, ecological monitoring and
forecasting of the consequences of human activity on the natural ecosystems of the region.
Key words: rove beetles, subfamily Aleocharinae, genus Amischa, fauna, Ukraine.

Introduction. Amischa Thomson, 1858 is a widespread genus, which, based on a set of
morphological features, belongs to the tribe Athetini Casey, 1910, subfamily Aleocharinae
Fleming, 1821, family Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802 (Muona, 1993).
Information about findings of representatives of the genus is fragmentary and does not
often make it into faunal summaries from different regions of Ukraine. Special studies on the
distribution and biological features of representatives of the genus Amischa in Ukraine have
not been conducted before. The largest number of findings is known from the southeastern
regions of Ukraine (Luhansk and Donetsk regions), as well as the western regions (Ivano-
Frankivsk, Lviv, Transcarpathian regions) and the Ukrainian Carpathians. There is
fragmentary information about findings of species in the Crimea and southern Ukraine. The
most studied is the widespread A. analis. In the latest edition of the “Catalogue of Palaearctic
Coleoptera” three species are listed for Ukraine (Schülke, Smetana, 2015). Thus, there is an
urgency to summarize all known data on findings of species of the genus Amischa in the
fauna of Ukraine. This paper is a continuation of the series of reviews of the genera and
species of the tribe Athetini of the fauna of Ukraine started by the author (Glotov, 2021).
Material and methods. The paper is based on the collection of the author which have
been formed over many years and are currently deposited in the State Museum of Natural
History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (CGL, deposited in SMNH), as well
as all materials which are stored in the reserve collections of: State Museum of Natural
History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv (SMNH); I. I. Schmalhausen
Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv (SIZK); National
Science and Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
(NMNH); Zoological Museum of Donetsk National University, Donetsk (ZMDОNU);
Zoological Museum of Luhansk National University, Luhansk (ZMLG); Zoological Museum
of Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv (ZMTSNU). Acronyms for Zoological
Collections of Ukraine follow Zagorodniuk & Shydlovskyy (2014). In addition, materials
from the personal collections of fellow entomologists were processed: V. Chumak