The Cephennium fauna of Turkey and the Middle East (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) Author Assing, Volker Author Meybohm, Heinrich text Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 2021 2021-06-30 71 1 1 28 journal article 10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.1.001-028 0005-805X 5743187 3325609F-6C1F-491F-8C48-C07149C0A0E6 Cephennium sicaferum spec. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 7F1029CB-AD9C-42A6-BBAC-5BDC653EBFEC ( Fig. 61 , Map 3 ) Type material : Holotype : “ N37°52'59 E027°53'54 (11), Türkei Aydin Pasayaylasi , 250 m 20.4.2006 , l. Brachat & Meybohm / Holotypus  Cephennium sicaferum sp. n. , det. V . Assing 2020” (cAss). Paratype : “ N37°56'47 E027°53'53 (8), Türkei Aydin Pasayaylasi, 1460 m 20.4.2006 , l. Brachat & Meybohm” (cAss) . Etymology : The specific epithet is an adjective composed of the Latin noun sica (dagger) and the suffix -ferum (carrying). It alludes to the presence of a pair of daggershaped structures in addition to a pair of claw-shaped structures in the internal sac of the aedeagus. Description : Body length 0.9 mm . Eye rudiments minute, composed of three distinct ommatidia without pigmentation. Other external and male secondary sexual characters as in C. unguicum . : aedeagus ( Fig. 61 ) of similar shape as in C. unguicum , but smaller, 0.18 mm long; internal sac with a pair of large and strongly curved claw-shaped structures and additionally with a pair of dagger-shaped structures. Comparative notes : Cephennium sicaferum is distinguished from the geographically close C. unguicum by slightly smaller body size, eye rudiments composed of three distinct ommatidia, and by a smaller aedeagus with a pair of dagger-shaped structures in addition to a pair of smaller and differently shaped claw-shaped structures. The species differs from the externally similar C. deplectens (see below) only by the longer and more slender dagger-shaped structures and the differently shaped claw-shaped structures in the internal sac. Distribution and natural history : The type locality is situated near Paşayaylası, Aydın province , Southwest Anatolia ( Map 3 ). The holotype was sifted from litter on a stream bank with Salix and Rubus at an altitude of 250 m , the paratype was found under stones or sifted near stones near a stand of walnut trees at an altude of 1460 m .