title: New data on Apteroloma (Coleoptera: Agyrtidae) of central Asia and the Himalayas with a new synonymy.
abstract: The distribution of Apteroloma anglorossicum (Semenov, 1890), A. harmandi (Portevin, 1903) and A. sillemi Jeannel, 1935 in central Asia and along the Himalayas is summarized, and the collecting circumstances and ecology of all three species from Gilgit District, Pakistan are described in detail. Revised diagnoses of all three species are provided, habitus and important morphological structures are illustrated, and available types have been examined. Apteroloma jankovskii Semenov and Znojko in Semenov, 1932 is confirmed as junior subjective synonym of A. anglorossicum. Apteroloma heinzi Schawaller, 1991 is newly treated as a junior subjective synonym of A. harmandi.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, CZ-165 21 Praha 6, Czech Republic.; Email: ruzickajan@fzp.czu.cz.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Růžička
authors.affiliation: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Verona, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9, I-37129 Verona, Italy.; Email: leonardo.latella@comune.verona.it.
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Latella
authors.affiliation: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany.; Email: wolfgang.schawaller@smns-bw.de.
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schawaller
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D001209:Asia, Central; D049628:Body Size; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000254:growth & development; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size