Your question is no clear. Why are you  interested in this species ?? sorry but I do not give data to anonymous researchers because poachers and wildlife traffickers are targeting newly discovered species of value to sell them on the black market. This is the reality and all of us should be aware of this situation that is happening in social networks. And I have the evidence in this link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Podalgus-nazarovi-A1-pair-PARATYPUS-described-2016-year-Dynastinae/161983737955?_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D35694%26meid%3Dedc06e0f42914def9beb14a382b99bed%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D281925484246

Thank you sir for your kind information.

    One of my students who is working with the diversity of butterflies in Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, India has come up with these pictures and requested me to help her in identification. Since I was not able to identify those species with the information with me, I have posted here. I have requested her to come up with the complete details like where she has collected and the nature of habitat, etc. If it may be the correct information let me contact you for further clarification?

    I have few books with which I was not able to identify the species.

       Further may I request you to help me in the conformation of some of the butterflies she has collected during the study?

Thank you

 Hello, thanks for your answer, I learned that a new species of Podalgus had been discovered in Iran. As some of my friends are preparing a scientific expedition in those places, I wanted to know on what scientific journal the new species had been described, to know the place of collection. I am not a trader, and never use animals for profit.

Hello Ugo,  Thank you for your answer and clarification.  Podalgus nazarovi Gusakov, 2016 is a new species described this year so it has not yet been published.  I can ask Gusakov for a reprint and gladly I will share with you. Despite that this species has not yet been published  the insect traders and traffickers are alredy offering this species in internet in this link. Incredible.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Podalgus-nazarovi-A1-pair-PARATYPUS-described-2016-year-Dynastinae/161983737955?_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D35694%26meid%3Dedc06e0f42914def9beb14a382b99bed%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D281925484246

Hello Luis Miguel. Thank you very much for your news. I wait anxiously the reprint. Sorry for the delay, but since it is only recently that I joined, I have not yet learned well to use this forum. However if you want to know something more about me, here is a link:

http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/UBosia.html

Kindest regards

Hello Ugo:

I tried to contact Aleksei A. Gusakov at the Zoological Museum of Moscow University, Moscow but I did not get answer at  http://zmmu.msu.ru/en/about-muzeum/divisions/entomology/section-staff. As I told you the name Podalgus nazarovi is not available yet.

I recomend you to contact Dr. Nikolay B. Nikitsky who Works with Aleksei Gusakov at the Zoological Museum of Moscow, His e-mail is [email protected]

If is not possibly then try with Dr. Marek Bunalski, University of Dabrowskiego, Poznan, Poland. e-mail: [email protected] They collected scarab beetles in the Golestan province, northern Iran last year and he may know about this species.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268503034_Contributions_to_the_knowledge_the_scarab_beetles_of_Golestan_province_Northern_Iran_with_checklist_of_Iranian_Scarabaeoidea_Coleoptera

Good luck,

Luis Miguel

Article Contributions to the knowledge the scarab beetles of Golesta...

Many thanks!

I'll wait for the exit of the paper in object, then i'll contact these persons

I'll let you know.

Best regards

Ugo