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 corruptum group Species of small size ( 0.9–1.2 mm ), slender habitus, relatively long elytra, and pale colouration (usually reddish-yellow). Eyes composed of 3–5, sometimes weakly defined ommatidia without, or with very weak, pigmentation. Punctation of pronotum often more distinct than that of elytra. Elytra each with a small circular or transversely oval impression with whitish tomentose pubescence anteriorly. Hind wings completely reduced. : protibia without distinct modifications; metaventrite extensively and shallowly impressed, depressed, or unmodified; aedeagus strongly dorso-ventrally depressed and short, much less than twice as long as broad; ventral process short and broad, apically broadly truncate; internal structures weakly to moderately sclerotized, not conspicuously minute, apico-medially with a more or less transverse structure; parameres thin, apically extending to, nearly to, or beyond apex of median lobe, with short and fine apical seta. The species of the C. corruptum group can be assigned to two subgroups, one of them ( C. unguicum subgroup) including five species ( C. unguicum , C. deplectens , C. sicaferum , C. geminum , C. duplum ) from Southwest Anatolia and characterized by the presence of pairs of large spines in the internal sac of the aedeagus. The C. corruptum subgroup, which comprises the remaining ten species, is distributed in central southern Anatolia , Lebanon , and Jordan and lacks such distinct spines. In the study region, the representatives of the C. corruptum group are locally endemic in South and Southwest Turkey (thirteen species), Lebanon (one), and Jordan (one) ( Map 3 ).