Myrmoecia urartu (IABLOKOFF-KHNZORIAN, 1962) (Figs 1, 79, Map 1) Zyras urartu IABLOKOFF-KHNZORIAN, 1962, 111 f. Type material: Holotype: “ Erevan. 10.4.55, Nor-Aresh, N. N. Akramovski / Typus / Zyras urartu Khnj, Khnzorian det. / Holotype / Myrmoecia urartu (Iablokoff-Khnzorian), det. V. Assing 2018” (IZAY). Additional material examined: Israel: 1, Sede Boqer range, 30°51'N, 34°46'E, 500 m, 24.II.2011, leg. Drees (cAss); 1, Upper Galilee, Biriya env., 32°59'N, 35°29'E, flight trap, 17.V.–4.VI.2007, leg. Buse (cFel); 1, same data, but without date (cFel); 1, Upper Galilee, Meron, 33°00'N, 35°26'E, flight trap, 5–25.VI.2007, leg. Buse (cFel). Jordan: 1, Ma’an, N Wadi Musa, 30°24'N, 35°30'E, 1670 m, 29.II.2015, leg. Meybohm (cAss). Iran: 1, Esfahan Province, 10 km E Zefreh, Mt. Marshenan, 32°56'N, 52°22'E, 2490 m, 16.V.2007, leg. Frisch & Serri (cAss). Comment: The original description is based on a unique specimen from Armenia (IABLOKOFF-KHNZORIAN 1962). The holotype is a female and illustrated in Figs 1, 79. The species was originally assigned to Zyras STEPHENS, 1835 and subsequently moved to Myrmoecia by MARUYAMA (2006). The above records represent the first records since the original description and the first records from Israel, Jordan, and Iran. The currently known distribution is illustrated in Map 1.

Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2019, On the Lomechusini fauna of the Palaearctic and Oriental regions. XXVI. New species, a new synonymy, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 33-70 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.69.1.033-070, http://zenodo.org/record/5742766