New species of the genus Glyphobythus Raffray, 1904 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Turkey
Author
Hlaváč, Peter
Author
Brachat, Volker
text
Zootaxa
2015
3904
4
596
599
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3904.4.9
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Glyphobythus
Raffray, 1904
Glyphobythus
Raffray, 1904
: 255
.
Type
species:
Bythinus maritimus
Reitter, 1884
(designated by
Jeannel 1950
:206
).
Glyphobythus
Raffray
:
Jeannel, 1950
: 206
(redescription, key to French species);
Besuchet, 1960
(revision, key to species).
Glyphobythoides
Jeannel, 1950
: 208
.
Type
species
Bythinus gracilipes
Saint-Claire Deville, 1899
, synonymy in
Besuchet (1960: 401)
.
Diagnosis.
Glyphobythus
is readily separated from other genera of
Bythinini
by the following combination of characters: 1) body very small, below
1.4 mm
in length, with distinct sexual dimorphism, 2) males with well-developed eyes, females microphthalmous, 3) head transverse in males, about as wide as pronotum, less transverse in females, 4) palpomere II slender, pipe-shaped, palpomere III small, both lacking pubescence, granulate on external surface, 5) palpomere IV large, subtriangular, with well-defined dorsal fovea in males, 6) scape long, cylindrical, distinctly longer than wide, pedicel spherical, all antennomeres simple in both sexes, lacking male sexual characters, 7) pronotum smooth to punctured, with sparse setation, pronotal antebasal sulcus present, 8) foretibia in males simple or with incision or attenuate.