Acmaeodera (Acmaeodera) lopatini sp. n. – New Species of Buprestidae from Kyrgyzstan 357 Konstantinov, Tishechkin, Penev (eds.) 2005 Contributions to Systematics and Biology of Beetles Papers Celebrating the 80 th Birthday of Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin, pp. 357-363 © PENSOFT Publishers Sofia – Moscow Acmaeodera (Acmaeodera) lopatini sp. n. – New Species of Buprestidae (Coleoptera) from Kyrgyzstan M. G. Volkovitsh Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 Sankt-Petersburg, Russia E-mail: polycest@zin.ru ABSTRACT Acmaeodera (Acmaeodera) lopatini n. sp. from Naryn Valley, Central Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan, is de- scribed and illustrated. The new species is closely related to A. lata Heyden from adjacent areas of Tien-Shan. Diagnostic characters are given to distinguish A. lopatini from A. lata and A. bilyi Volko- vitsh (Fergana Valley) and a distributional map for all three species is provided. KEY WORDS Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Acmaeodera (Acmaeodera) lopatini, new species, Central Tien-Shan, Naryn Valley, Kyrgyzstan. INTRODUCTION During a field trip to Northern and Central (Inner) Tien-Shan in June 1989, several specimens of a species preliminarily identified as Acmaeodera (Acmaeodera) lata Heyden, 1885 were collected in the foothills of the Moldotau Mountains in the deeply isolated Naryn Valley not far from the town of Kazarman (Kyrgyzstan). One specimen was collected in the same valley at a rather long distance from the first locality. One more specimen was received from Naturkundesmuseum (Erfurt, Germany) for identification. Detailed examination of all above mentioned specimens has shown that they actually belong to a previously unknown species. Its description and diagno- sis are given below. The new species is named after Professor Igor K. Lopatin who has contrib- uted significantly to coleopteran faunal investigations and the zoogeography of Middle and Cen- tral Asia, and in honor of many years of friendship. The following acronyms are used throughout the text: NMEG - Naturkundesmuseum (Erfurt, Germany); ZIN - Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Peters- burg, Russia).