A review of the subgenus Cladoconnus Reitter of the genus Euconnus Thomson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from the Balkan Peninsula, Turkey and Caucasus Author Hlaváč, Peter Author Stevanović, Miroslav text Zootaxa 2013 3646 4 401 425 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3646.4.5 0d308b82-39a9-49be-a5c1-94ba3efcbea0 1175-5326 219466 CECD90F2-218E-40B8-ABB9-9E39BF043FF3 Key to species of the denticornis species group of Cladoconnus of the Balkans, Turkey and Caucasus based on males 1 Antennomere X strongly transverse, 1.4–2.0 as wide as long.................................................. 2 - Antennomere X slightly (1.1) as wide as long, as long as wide or longer than wide................................ 3 2 Large species, body length 2.00– 2.10 mm , antennomere VII and X twice as wide as long, antennomere IX 1.05 times as long as wide, terminal antennomere 2.3 times as long as wide............................. E. (Cladoconnus) similis Weisse - Small species, body length 1.75 mm , antennomere VII about 1.45 times as wide as long, X 1.4 times as wide as long, antenno- mere IX 1.2 times as wide as long, terminal antennomere 1.85 times as long as wide E. (Cladoconnus) pseudorobustus Franz 3 Antennomeres IX and X transverse, IX 1.2 and X 1.15 times as wide as long, body length 1.75–1.85 mm ............................................................................... E. (Cladoconnus) denticornis Müller et Kunze - Antennomeres IX and X always longer than wide........................................................... 4 4 Terminal antennomeres very long, 2.4 times as long as wide, body length 1.95–2.05 mm . E. (Cladoconnus) brachati sp. nov. - Terminal antennomeres shorter, 1.8 – 2.0 times as long as wide................................................. 5 5 Sutural elytral striae very short, just at base of elytra, antennomere IX slightly, 1.05 times as long as wide, body length 2.00 mm.................................................................... E. (Cladoconnus) croaticus sp. nov. - Sutural elytral striae longer, reaching 1/5–1/3 of elytral length, antennomere IX 1.3–1.7 times as long as wide........... 6 6 Antennomere VII subquadrate, body length 2.00– 2.15 mm ..................... E. (Cladoconnus) winneguthi Apfelbeck - Antennomere VII transverse, about 1.3 times as wide as long................................................. 7 7 Antennomere X 1.2 times as long as wide, antennomere VIII 2.1 times as long as wide, body length 1.95 mm .................................................................. E. (Cladoconnus) kiesenwetteri kiesenwetteri Kiesenwetter - Antennomere X about as long as wide, antennomere VIII 1.3–1.7 times as long as wide............................. 8 8 Body length 2.1–2.2 mm , antennomere VIII 1.7 times as long as wide........ E. (Cladoconnus) motschulskii Motschulsky - Body length 1.85–1.90 mm , antennomere VIII 1.3 times as long as wide.............. E. (Cladoconnus) puniceus Reitter