Coleoptera (Insecta) from Ashgabat City and Köýtendag Nature Reserve, with nine first records for Turkmenistan

A list of 60 species group taxa of 15 families of the order Coleoptera collected at Ashgabat City and in Lebap Province (Turkmenistan) is presented. Nine species are reported for the first time for the country: Bembidion aeneum Germar, 1823, Chlaenius extensus Mannerheim, 1825, Gyrinus distinctus Aubé, 1838, Bisnius piochardi (Fauvel, 1875), Gabrius hissaricus Schillhammer, 2003, Quedius novus Eppelsheim, 1892, Thinodromus behnei Gildenkov, 2000, Trichophya pilicornis (Gyllenhal, 1810) and Galeruca jucunda (Faldermann, 1836).


Introduction
We give a list of beetles collected from two regions of Turkmenistan in May 2015. The first site is the Botanic Gardens in the Ashgabat City and the second one is the Köýtendag Nature Reserve, Köýtendag Mts., south-eastern Turkmenistan. All material was collected by Prof. Pavel Stoev from the National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, during a Rapid Environmental Assessment survey carried out by an international team of zoologists in the Köýtendag Mts.
The new faunistic information is presented concerning the recent data for the distribution of the Palaearctic beetles (see the sources in part "Material and methods"), thus previous faunistic studies in the region are not considered.

Material and methods
The present study is based on the identification of 245 specimens belonging to 15 families of the order Coleo ptera. The arrangement of the families and statuses of the taxa follow the recent editions of the catalogues of the Palaearctic Coleoptera (volumes 4-8, Löbl & Smetana, 2007 and volumes 1 and 3, Löbl & Löbl, 2016-2017. The names of authors who identified the species are given with their shortened first name and full surname at each family (in the part "List of taxa").    (Schülke & Smetana, 2015).
Trichophya pilicornis (Gyllenhal, 1810). Material examined: № 13 (2 specimens, NMNHS, 1 specimen SCH). Distribution: whole Palaearctic region (Canary Islands and Spain in the west to east Siberia and the Russian Far East), also adventive in the Nearctic region (Schülke & Smetana, 2015). Records from the eastern part of the Palaearctic and from the Himalaya (Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh) require confirmation. The species lives in leaf litter and under bark. It has also been reported from old mines, where it was probably transported with pit wood. Notes: First record from Turkmenistan.

Family Hybosoridae (det. D. Král & B. Guéorguiev)
Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853. Material examined: № 15 (1 ♀, NMNHS). Distribution: Subcosmopolitan (species with an extremely wide distribution, extending from south parts of Europe to India and South Africa including Madagascar; it has been also introduced to large parts of the Nearctic and Neotropical Regions. Widely distributed in Turkmenistan (Nikolajev, 1987).