Distribution: Western Europe, Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Iran, N India: Kashmir, Kyrghyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu. Introduced into Iceland, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand. Russia: European part, N Caucasus, Siberia, Amur basin, Primorye, Southern Sakhalin, Southern Kuriles: Iturup, Kunashir (Tobias, 1978; Kurzenko, 1995; Dubatolov, 1998). Additional information on the site of Prof. J.Kojima.

Localities from collections of SZMN, ZIN, and literature: Russia: Orenburg Province (not shown on map!): Izobil'noe (Sol'-Iletsk District; by courtesy of V.A.Nemkov); Donskoe (Belyaevka District); Ekaterinburg Province: Sazhina village (Achit District in the European part); Orenburg Province: Orenburg (ZIN collection); Kurgan Province: Kamyshnoe (Lebyazh'e district), Temlyakovo (Ketovo district), Pes'yanoe (Kurtamysh district); Tyumen Province: Tyumen vic., Turba river (65 km SSW Tobolsk), Kholonapskie Yurty on river Ob' in Tobolsk District (ZIN collection); Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Province: Oktyabr’skoe; Nature Reserve “Yuganskii”; Tomsk Province: Tomsk, 60 km SSW of Kozhevnikovo; Novosibirsk Province: Serogvka on the Om' river and Novodubrovka (Kuibyshevo district), the Kargat river mouth (Lake Chany), Boyarka (Kolyvan district), Novosibirsk, Linevo, Mallyanino; Altaiskii Krai: Barnaul (ZIN collection), Kalmanka, Soldatovo (Petropavlovskoe district); Altai Republic: Gorno-Altaisk, Chemal, Katanda, Kurai, Artybash (Teletskoe Lake); Kemerovo Province: Tyazhin vic.; Khakasia: Abaza; Evenkiya: Baikit (ZIN collection); Krasnoyarsk province: Balakhta near Achinsk (ZIN collection), Krasnoyarsk (ZIN collection), Nature Reserve Stolby, Eniseisk (ZIN collection), Taseevo (ZIN collection), river Podkamennaya Tunguska mouth (ZIN collection), Tiny (now - Tinskaya, Aginskoe District, ZIN collection); Tuva: Kyzyl, Khundurgun pass (Tannu-Ola Mts., Khandagaity district); Irkutsk Prov.: Usol'e (ZIN collection), Irkutsk (Sk.Yamane, Wagner, S.Yamane, 1980), incl. Mel'nikovo (ZIN collection), 12 km upflow from Kirensk (ZIN collection); Buryatia: Cape Kotel'nikovskii on NW Baikal (ZIN collection), Arshan (ZIN collection), Nature Reserve Baikal’skii, Dogarskaya Hollow, Taezhnyi and Lake Shchuch'e (Gusinoozersk district), Kokorino (Ulan-Ude district), Chikoi vic. (Kyakhta district); Chita Province: Chita, Nature Reserve Sokhondinskii, Nizhnii Tsasuchei, Zun-Torei Lake (Nature Reserve Daurskii), Kurort Koltomoi in river Nercha basin (ZIN collection), Budyumkan village, 10 km S from Uryupino; Aginskii Buryat Autonomous District: Alkhanai (ZIN collection); Yakutia: river Pilka, river Algama headwater, Kochegarovo in 100 km SW from Olekminsk along the Lena river (ZIN collection), Olekminsk (ZIN collection), Kresty near Olekminsk (ZIN collection), river Aldan at river Timpton mouth (ZIN collection), Tabaga in 28 km upflow from Yakutsk (ZIN collection), 33 km upflow from Yakutsk (ZIN collection), Yakutsk, Is. Oiun-Ary in 20 km downflow from Yakutsk (ZIN collection), Low Kandalas in 35 km downflow from Yakutsk (ZIN collection), "Verkhoyanskii Trakt" at river Aldan (~120 km E from river Aldan mouth, ZIN collection), 232 km of the road from Khandyga to Magadan; 40 km low from Srednekolymsk; Chukotka: Markovo (ZIN collection), Anadyr' (ZIN collection); Kamchatka: "Kamtchatk." (ZIN collection, not shown); Amur Province: Zeya Nature Reserve, Blagoveshchensk, Malaya Sazanka (12 km SSW from Svobodnyi), Svobodnyi, Korfovo (Tambovka district), Nature Reserve Khinganskii (Kurzenko, 1992); Jewish Province: Bastak Nature Reserve; Khabarovsk Province: river Tanchi between Ayan and Nel'kan (ZIN collection), Upper Bureya District: rivers Umalta and Bureya headwaters, Khabarovsk vic., Kiselevka, Arkhangelskoe (Amur river mouth), river Botchi (ZIN collection); Primorskii Krai: Chernigovka (ZIN collection), 20 km N from Chernyshevka, Vladivostok; Sakhalin: Horo (Dudino), Konuma (Novoaleksandrovsk), Taranai, Tarandomari (Zavety Il'icha) (Sk.Yamane, Wagner, S.Yamane, 1980), Sokol, Ozerskii, Dolinsk, Pokrovka in the Dolinsk District, Lake Tunaicha in 18 km from Pikhtovyi, Voskresenovka on the river Tym', Poronaisk (Kurzenko, 2004), Kirillovo, Solov'evka, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk; Kunashir: Tyatino (Kuwayama, 1967), Nikishiro (Lagunnoe), Lake Yambetsu (Yamane, Wagner, Yamane, 1980); Iturup: between Kuibyshevo and Kasatka, Kasatka (Kuwayama, 1967). Kazakhstan: Kokchetau Province: Borovoe (ZIN collection). Mongolia: Central aimak: Sutszukte neat Mt. Noen-Ula (ZIN collection), 24 km SW from Ulan-Baator, 11 km ESE from Bajancogt (Giordani Soika, 1970); 5-10 km N from Ulan-Baator (Giordani Soika, 1976). Japan: Hokkaido: Abashiri district: Shirataki, Maruseppu; Kushiro district: Akan; Tokachi district: Obihiro; Sorachi district: Mt. Yûbari; Ishikari district: Sapporo; Hiyama Pref.: Mt. Kariba; etc. Honshu: Aomori Pref.: Mt. Hakkôda; Akita Pref.: Goshogake Spa, Hachimantai; etc. (Sk.Yamane, Wagner, S.Yamane, 1980).

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