Silpha tristis Illiger, 1798 (Figs 17, 45) Material examined. Turkey: Erzurum: 1 spec., Aşkale, Kükürtlü village, 39°51'21.98"N / 40°35'30.96"E, 1940 m, 25.VI.2011, D. Çiftçi & A. Hasbenli leg. (MAZMGU); Bitlis: 1 female; Tatvan env., Nemrut Dağı, Güroymak, ca. 38°36'N 042°02'E, 1600 m, 14.V.2005, K. Orszulik leg. (KORC); Kars: 1 male, Susuz env., Doyumlu, 40.8390°N / 033.0321°E, 1400 m, 4.–7.V.2011, S. Murzin leg. (JRUC). Distribution in Turkey. Artvin (Háva et al. 1998); İzmir (Tezcan and Háva 2001; Tezcan et al. 2010). Remarks. A widely distributed European species, also known from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran and Turkey (Růžička 2015). In central Europe, it prefers wet open habitats (Růžička 1994). In Turkey, recorded only from a few scattered records (Fig. 45). Here reported for the first time from Bitlis, Çankırı and Erzurum Provinces.

Published as part of Çiftçi, Derya, Růžička, Jan, Hasbenli, Abdullah & Şahin, Ülfet, 2018, The large carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Turkey: a review with a new species record, pp. 555-591 in Zootaxa 4441 (3) on page 582, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/1301572