New Records of Ground Beetles (Coleo ptera, Carab idae) from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China

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Data on the distribution of 24 species of carabid beetles in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China are presented. Twenty taxa are newly recorded from China: Nebria (Eunebria) psammophila Solsky, 1874, N. (Eunebria) picta Semenov, 1891, Calosoma (Caminara) imbricatum deserticola Semenov, 1897, Carabus (Morphocarabus) henningi henningi Fischer von Waldheim, 1817, Scarites (s. str.) cylindronotus Faldermann, 1836, Apotomus testaceus Dejean, 1825, Pterostichus (Platysma) insignicollis (Tschitschérine, 1893), P. (Platysma) planicollis (Tschitschérine, 1899), P. (Plectes) drescheri (Fischer von Waldheim, 1817), P. (Petrophilus) magus magus (Mannerheim, 1825), Pseudotaphoxenus planicollis (Gebler, 1833), Agonum (Olisares) viduum (Panzer, 1796), Mnuphorus sellatus (Gebler, 1843), Cymindis (Arrhostus) andreae Ménétriés, 1832, C. (Menas) miliaris (Fabricius, 1801), C. (Neomenas) antonowi Semenov, 1891, Lebia (Lamprias) festiva festiva Faldermann, 1836, L. (s. str.) trimaculata (Villers, 1789), Brachinus (s. str.) crepitans (Linnaeus, 1758) and B. (Cnecostolus) cruciatus (Quensel, 1806). Two species are recorded for the first time from Xinjiang: Nebria (Eunebria) przewalskii przewalskii Semenov, 1889 and Lebia (Lamprias) punctata Gebler, 1843. Exact distributional data in China are given for the two species: Scarites (s. str.) salinus Dejean, 1825 and Polistichus connexus (Geoffroy, 1758).