Distributional notes on Chrysomelidae from Pakistan and Afghanistan

The distributional data concerning 19 species from Pakistan and 9 species from Afghanistan are presented. Eight species are recorded as new for Pakistan: Coptocephala crassipes (Lefevre, 1876), Chloropterus ornatus Lopatin, 1984, Pachnephorus tesselatus Duftschmidt, 1825, Macrocoma sacra (Lopatin, 1983), Macrocoma marquardti (Breit, 1913), Palpoxena pallida (Jacoby, 1896), Aulacophora impressa (Fabricius, 1801), and Chaetocnema belli Jacoby, 1904. One species is recorded as new for Afghanistan: Tituboea heptneri (Medvedev, 1957).


Introduction
The faunistic data on the leaf beetles of Pakistan are still sufficiently incomplete; the majority of species are recorded once for this territory and their distributional pattern is unknown. The only existing summary by Hashmi & Tashfeen (1992), and also Chaudry et al. (1966), as well as identification keys of Abdullah & Qureshi (1968, 1969a, 1969b lack exact geographical data. The leaf beetles of Afghanistan are studied somewhat better (see e.g. Gruev 1988;Lopatin 1962Lopatin , 1983Medvedev 1978Medvedev , 1985, although real distributional data is also fragmentary. The general faunistic records on the Chrysomelidae of Pakistan and Afghanistan are summarized in Löbl & Smetana (2010).
The new findings of leaf beetles presented below supplement data on the ranges of the species and especially their distributional pattern in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It has the special interest in view that both regions are situated at the border between Palaearctic and Oriental zoogeographical regions.

Material and Methods
The identification of material was carried out using works of Maulik (1926Maulik ( , 1936, Medvedev (1962), Abdullah & Qureshi (1968, 1969a, 1969b, Lopatin (1977), Warchałowski (1991Warchałowski ( , 2003. The material from Pakistan treated in this paper was collected by second author and housed in the Natural History Museum, University of Karachi; the material from Afghanistan was collected by O. V. Pak (Donetsk, Ukraine) and stored in the personal collection of the third author.
Tituboea heptneri (Medvedev, 1957) New record: Afghanistan, Kabul Province, 5 km NW Kabul, Kargha locality, 2000 m, 15-16.05.2010, 3 exx.; the same place, 1-2.06.2010, 2 exx. New to Afghanistan. Described from Iran. This species is insufficiently studied and poorly known. The finding of this species in Afghanistan suggests of its larger range. The material examined supplements with data on the variability of colouration of this species: pronotum with or without two blurred piceous spots at basal margin, 4 dark spots on elytron vary in size from medium-sized to small, dot-shaped, legs and last segment of abdomen black or legs entirely yellow.

Labidostomis nuristanica reinecK, 1937
New record: Afghanistan, Kabul Province, 5 km NW Kabul, Kargha locality, 15-16.05.2010, 8 exx. This polytypic species comprises three subspecies including the nominotypical. The differences between them are indistinct including aedeagal. Hence, it is difficult to identify the subspecies of examined material, though the colouration the most resembles Labidostomis nuristanica afghanica L. Medvedev, 1978. All subspecies are distributed mostly in Afghanistan (Löbl & Smetana 2010) which gives objections against their validity; this subspecies also known from Pakistan.

Chloropterus ornatus Lopatin, 1984
Material: E Pakistan, Sindh Province, Umerkot District, Umerkot environs, 15.VI.2009, 1 female. New to Pakistan. The species is described from south-east Iran. The specimen differs from the type series by the absence of an inner spot on the elytra and the somewhat smaller size -4.5 mm.