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
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journal article
10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.1.001-028
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Cephennium dolucanum
spec. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
F0BFE9A7-0AE9-40D2-BC5E-49DE875B2A65
(
Figs 16
,
53
,
Map 3
)
Type material
:
Holotype
: “
N37°23'10
E36°40'51
, TR
Kahramanmaras
,
Doluca
1040 m
(49),
40 km
ssw
K.
Maras
/
Steine
,
Büsche
,
4.5.2005
(49), leg.
Brachat
& Meybohm /
Holotypus
Cephennium dolucanum
sp. n.
, det.
V
. Assing 2020” (cAss)
.
Paratypes
: 1 : same data as holotype (cAss); 2 , 1 : “
N37°23'10
E36°40'51
(28), TR
Kahramanmaras
, W Doluca
1040 m
,
40 km
SSW Maras Brachat
&
Meybohm
30.4.2007
” (cAss); 2 , 1
:
same data, but “(28a) ...
2.5.2007
” (cAss)
.
Etymology
: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from Doluca, the populated place in whose environs the
type
locality is situated.
Description
: Habitus as in
Fig. 16
. External and male secondary sexual characters as in
C. marasicum
.
: aedeagus (
Fig. 53
) short, broad, and apically truncate,
0.32 mm
long; internal sac with structures of distinctive shape; paramere apically extending beyond apex of median lobe, with short apical seta.
Comparative notes
:
Cephennium dolucanum
is distinguished from the externally identical and geographically close
C. marasicum
only by the internal structures of the aedeagus.
Distribution and natural history
: The
type
locality is situated near Doluca, some
40 km
to the southwest of
Kahramanmaraş
,
Kahramanmaraş province
, central southern
Anatolia
(
Map 3
). The specimens were found under stones in the transition zone between arable land and a pine forest an altitude of
1040 m
.