New records of the little known Palaearctic tenebrionid Arthromacra pretiosa Reiche from Caucasus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Abstract. Arthromacra pretiosa Reiche was described from Anatolia and because of its scarcity in nature and museum collections its distribution still remains poorly known. The paper deals with a recent record and information on distribution taken from the specimens deposited in the collections of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Zoological Museum at the Moscow State University. The range of this species according to new data includes Turkey, Georgia and Dagestan (Russia).