On some species of Oxypoda MANNERHEIM from Turkey and adjacent regions (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae Aleocharinae)
Author
Assing, V.
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2006
2006-07-21
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5432984
0253-116X
5432984
Oxypoda
(
Thliboptera
)
infissa
sp.n.
(
Figs 121-131
)
Holotype
3: GR.
Thessalia
[4], Ossa
Oros, NE
Spilia,
1450 m
, N-slope,
39°48'27N
,
22°40'45E
,
22.VII.2004
,
V
. Assing
/
Holotypus
3
Oxypoda infissa
sp. n.
det.
V
.
Assing 2006
(cAss).
Paratypes
:
1♀
: same data as holotype (cAss)
;
2♀♀
: GR.
Evritania, Nr.
3, 15 km SSW
Karpenisi
,
Mt. Kaliakouda
,
1500 m
,
38°48'12N
, 21°46'08'E,
14.IV.2000
,
V
. Assing (cAss)
.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Habitus as in
Fig. 121
. Based on external morphology, indistinguishable from
O. fissa
(
Figs 122-125
).
3: sternite VIII distinctly oblong (
Fig. 126
); median lobe of aedeagus of similar general morphology as that of
O. fissa
, but with internal structures of slightly different shape and with apically unincised ventral process (
Figs 128-129
); apical lobe of paramere as in
Fig. 130
.
♀
: sternite VIII approximately as wide as long, its posterior margin convex (
Fig. 127
); spermatheca similar to that of
O. fissa
, with rather long duct (
Fig. 131
).
E t y m o l o g y: The name (Lat., adj.: split) refers to the unincised ventral process of the aedeagus.
C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The species is highly similar to and apparently the adelphotaxon of
O. fissa
, from which it is reliably separated only by the morphology of the median lobe of the aedeagus, especially by the apically unincised ventral process. From the only other dark Greek species of
Thliboptera
,
O. micans
, it is readily distinguished by the relatively smaller head, by the shorter and much more slender antennae, the more convex (cross-section) and more distinctly punctate pronotum, the more densely and distinctly punctate elytra, by the more oblong tergite and sternite VIII, by the completely different morphology of the aedeagus (see also
Fig. 108
), and by the longer duct of the spermatheca.
D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d b i o n o m i c s: The species is known only from the Ossa Oros,
Thessalia
, and from the Kaliakouda Oros, Evritania,
Greece
, where the
types
were sifted from litter of
Abies
, fern, and grass at altitudes of 1450 and
1500 m
.