A revision of Amarochara of the Holarctic region. III. A new species, a new synonym, and additional records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
Author
Assing, Volker
text
Zootaxa
2007
1411
25
32
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.175615
a0e2f907-04ff-4634-b855-68293bd11a29
1175-5326
175615
Amarochara freyi
(
Bernhauer, 1940
)
,
comb. n.
(
Fig. 19
)
Ocyusa
(
Cousya
)
freyi
Bernhauer, 1940
: 1038
.
Amarochara
(
Mniobates
)
splendens
Jarrige, 1952
: 138
;
syn. n.
Type
material examined.
Holotype
[not dissected]: [
MOROCCO
:
] Azrou, Atlas,
17.4.33
/
Freyi
Brh. Typ. / desiderata /
Freyi
Brh.
Typus
unic.
Ocyusa
/ Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection /
Amarochara freyi Bernhauer
det. V. Assing 2005 (
FMNH
).
Comment.
The original description of
Ocyusa freyi
is explicitly based on a single
holotype
specimen from "Atlas (Azron)" (
Bernhauer 1940
). An examination of the
holotype
(
Fig. 19
), which was found while browsing through the Oxypodini collection at the FMNH, revealed that it refers to the genus
Amarochara
and that it is conspecific with—and consequently the senior synonym of—
A. splendens
Jarrige, 1952
. Since this species is readily distinguished from its congeners by external characters alone, the
holotype
was not dissected. A diagnosis and figures of the genitalia are provided by
Assing (2002a)
.