A revision of Palaearctic and Oriental Pseudolathra. V. Two new species from Cambodia and Thailand, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
Author
Assing, Volker
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Pseudolathra fissa
ASSING
,
2013
(
Figs 7-8
)
Pseudolathra ceylonica
ROUGEMONT, 2015: 1792
;
nov.syn.
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d:
India
:
20 exs.
[partly more or less distinctly teneral],
Tamil Nadu
,
Vilupparam District, Auroville, Discipline vill.,
12°0.7'N
,
79°47.97'E
,
1.XI.-31.XII.2013
(NME,
cAss).
C o m m e n t: The original description of
P. fissa
is based on material from two localities in Tamil Nadu (
ASSING 2013a
), that of
P. ceylonica
on two males and four females from
Sri Lanka
(
ROUGEMONT 2015
). According to
ROUGEMONT (2015)
,
P. ceylonica
is distinguished from
P. fissa
by slight differences in the apical structures of the aedeagus and by the shape of the ventral process. However, the apical structures of the aedeagus are subject to some intraspecific variation and the illustrations provided by
ROUGEMONT (2015
: figures 10al2, 10av 2) do not show any differences in the shape of the ventral process. For comparison, the aedeagus of one of the non-type specimens listed above is illustrated in
Figs 7-8
. In consequence, the
type
material of
P. ceylonica
is undoubtedly conspecific with that of
P. fissa
. Some of the above specimens are teneral.