Geotrupes sp

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Mikhail F. Bagaturov, 21.02.2007 19:26

Hello everyone
Here is a beetle of the genus Geotrupes.
The story is as follows.
During the Soviet era, this geotrup was driven in large quantities "to the west" from Talysh (where it is not uncommon) like G. caspius (which, by the way, it doesn't look like, but nevertheless).
After some time, comrades "there" calculated this case and described it as a type of Geotrupes fausti.
Due to the lapse in time, I can't check at the moment whether it's G. fausti or something else right now.
And if not, what, and what is Geotrupes caucasicus now and where does it live?
Thank you in advance.

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Comments

22.05.2007 12:25, Archypus

Here is the information on G. molestus kindly provided by A. Gusakov:
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The museum's collection contains only three specimens of Geotrupes molestus Faldermann, 1835 from the territory of the USSR.

1) Female. "Caucasus. Armen. Geb. Leder. Reitter." Geb. (=German Gebirge) - means mountains. That is, a beetle from mountainous Armenia. By the way, this may be Turkish Armenia, i.e. not the USSR at all. "Leder. Reitter. " – the names of the collectors, although only Leder collected them, and Reutter financed the trips and processed the collected material.

2) Male. Adjara, Arsinsky ridge, near the Gavderz pass, 13. 08. 1969, T. Kalinina.

3) Male. Georgia, Khochataur district, Bakhmaro resort, 07. 07. 1980, A. Seryapin.

In the new Palearctic catalog of Geotrupinae (Loebl; Nikolajev; Kral, 2006), this species is assigned to the subgenus Glyptogeotrupes .