A revison of the Lithocharis species of the Palaearctic, Oriental and Australian regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Medonina) Author Assing, Volker text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2015 2015-12-30 47 2 1133 1178 journal article 68941 10.5281/zenodo.5184182 dcb37aba-9f9f-402a-91db-c1c6e310d61c 0253-116X 5184182 7F05EEC9-77C2-4592-A593-EE0139FE94FE Lithocharis subochracea COIFFAIT , 1966 ( Figs 8-13 ) Lithocharis subochracea COIFFAIT, 1966: 346 f. Type material examined Holotype ♂ [dissected prior to present study; aedeagus missing]: " Mauritanie , Tagant Fogh , Mateu 9.3.58 / Préparation microscopique / Holotype / Lithocharis subochracea Coiff. , H. Coiffait det. 1966" ( MNHNP ). Additional material examined: Yemen : 7 exs. , Socotra Island, Zemhon area , 12°31'N , 54°07'E , 270-350 m , 3.-4.II.2010 , leg. Purchart & Vybíral ( NMP , cAss) ; 1♂, Socotra , Firmihin, 12°28'N , 54°01'E , 400-500 m , at light, 6.-7.II.2010 , leg. Purchart & Vybíral (cAss). Figs 1-7 : Lithocharis mateui COIFFAIT , holotype: ( 1 ) habitus; ( 2 ) male sternite VII; ( 3 ) male sternite VIII; ( 4 ) posterior portion of male sternite VIII; ( 5-6 ) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view; ( 7 ) basal portion of ventral process in ventral view. Scale bars: 1: 1.0 mm; 2-6: 0.2 mm; 7: 0.1 mm. Figs 8-16 : Lithocharis subochracea COIFFAIT ( 8-13 ; 8-11: holotype; 12-13: male from Yemen) and L. mauretanica COIFFAIT , holotype ( 14-16 ): ( 8 ) habitus; ( 9, 14 ) male sternite VII; ( 10, 15 ) posteromedian portion of male sternite VII; ( 11, 16 ) male sternite VIII; ( 12-13 ) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view. Scale bars: 8: 1.0 mm; 9, 11-14, 16: 0.2 mm; 10, 15: 0.1 mm. Comment: The original description is based on a unique male from " Mauritanie , Tagant Fogh" ( COIFFAIT 1966 ). The species was subsequently recorded from the Canary Islands ( ASSING 2008 ). The above specimens from the Yeminitic island Socotra represent a new country record and considerably expand the known distribution of this species. The habitus and the male sexual characters are illustrated in Figs 8-13 .