SHORT COMMUNICATION hppt/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub: CCA6A6D0-FE86-46F4-ADA9-40989EC38A2B V. S. Yakubovich. FIRST RECORD OF THE DRAGONFLY ORTHETRUM ALBISTYLUM SPECIOSUM (UHLER, 1858) (ODONATA: LIBELLULIDAE) FROM EVREISKAYA AVTONOMNAYA OBLAST, RUSSIAN FAR EAST. – Far Eastern Entomologist. 2013. N 262: 7-8. Summary. The dragonfly Orthetrum albistylum speciosum (Uhler, 1858) is firstly recorded from Evreiskaya avtonomnaya oblast. Key words: Odonata, Libellulidae, dragonflies, fauna, new record, Russia. В. С. Якубович. Первая находка стрекозы Orthetrum albistylum speciosum (Uhler, 1858) (Odonata: Libellulidae) в Еврейской автономной области, Дальний Восток России // Дальневосточный энтомолог. 2013. N 262. С. 7-8. Резюме. Стрекоза Orthetrum albistylum speciosum (Uhler, 1858) впервые обнаружена в Еврейской автономной области. INTRODUCTION The dragonfly Orthetrum albistylum (Selys, 1848) is divided in two subspecies, a nominotypical distributed in Europe, Mediterranean region, Western and Central Asia, and Russia (European part, Southern Siberia, Transbaikalia) and O. albistylum speciosum (Uhler, 1858) known from East Asia. The latter subspecies was recorded in Russia from Amurskaya oblast, south part of Khabarovskii krai, Primorskii krai, and Sakhalin Island (Malikova, 1995, 1997; Ivanov, 2001; Yakubovich, 2010), however, until now it is not found in the Evreiskaya avtonomnaya oblast. NEW RECORD Orthetrum albistylum speciosum (Uhler, 1858) MATERIAL. Russia: Evreiskaya autonomnaya oblast, Oktyabrskii District, vicinity of Soyuznoe village, top of a hill near the Amur River, 6-9.VII 2012, 1  (E.S. Koshkin leg.) DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Amurskaya oblast, Evreiskaya avtonomnaya oblast (new record), Khabarovskii krai, Primorskii krai, Sakhalin Island. – Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan. NOTES. Though this subspecies is widely distributed in the southern part of the Russian Far East, but not numerous and presented by the local populations. REFERENCES Ivanov, P.Yu. 2003. Fauna, taxonomy and distribution of dragonflies (Odonata) in the south of the Russian Far East. Avtoreferat diss… kandidata bilologicheskich nauk. Vladivostok. 24 pp. (In Russian). Malikova, E.I. 1995. Dragonflies (Odonata, Insecta) of the Russian Far East. Avtoreferat diss… kandidata bilologicheskich nauk. Novosibirsk. 25 pp. (In Russian). 7 Malikova, E.I. 1997. The fauna of dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) of the Amurskaya oblast. Problemy ecologii Verkhnego Priamurya. Vypusk 3. Blagovestshensk. P. 109–116. (In Russian). Yakubovich, V.S. 2010. First record of the dragonfly Orthetrum albistylum speciosum (Uhler, 1858) (Odonata: Libellulidae) from Khabarovskii krai. Far Eastern Entomologist. 219: 11–12. Author's address: Department of Biology, Far Eastern Medical University, Murav’ev-Amursky Street 35, Khabarovsk 680000, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] _________________________________________________________________  Far Eastern entomologist (Far East. entomol.) Journal published since October 1994. Editor-in-Chief: S.Yu. Storozhenko Editorial Board: A.S. Lelej, N.V. Kurzenko, M.G. Ponomarenko, E.A. Beljaev, V.A. Mutin, E.A. Makarchenko, T.M. Tiunova, P.G. Nemkov, M.Yu. Proshchalykin, S.A. Shabalin Address: Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 690022, Vladivostok-22, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] web-site: http://www.biosoil.ru/fee