A revision of the Sunius species of the Western Palaearctic region and Middle Asia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
Author
Assing, V.
Author
A, North
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2008
2008-07-10
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.13133503
0253-116X
13133503
4.52.
Sunius montanellus
(BORDONI 1980)
(
Figs 125-127
, Map 19)
Hypomedon montanellus
BORDONI
1980c: 216
.
T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d
Holotype
3: "
Maroc
-
Ht. Atlas
,
Tizi-n-Tichka
(
1600 m
), 1.V.60,
Cl. Besuchet
/
Holotypus
/
Hypomedon montanellus
n. sp.
det.
Bordoni
1980 /
Sunius montanellus (Bordoni)
det.
V. Assing
2007" (
MHNG
).
C o m m e n t: The original description is based on a single
holotype
specimen from "
Marocco
, M.te [sic; recte: H.te]
Atlas
,
Tizi-m-Tichka
" (
BORDONI 1980c
)
.
D i a g n o s i s: External morphology as in
S. tuniseus
, but whole body of uniformly yellowish coloration, abdomen not distinctly darker than forebody, and eyes very small, only about 1/4 the length of postocular region in dorsal view.
3: sternite VII with weakly concave posterior margin, pubescence unmodified; sternite VIII as in
Fig. 127
, with pubescent tubercle, posterior excision very shallow; aedeagus of highly distinctive morphology with long, slender, and straight ventral process, without sclerotised internal structures (
Figs 125-126
).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: The species has become known only from the
type
locality in the Haut Atlas,
Morocco
(Map 19).
Figs 117-127
:
Sunius gourvesi
(
COIFFAIT
)
, holotype (
117-121
),
S. atlasicus
(
COIFFAIT
)
, holotype (
122-124
), and
S. montanellus
(
BORDONI
)
, holotype (
125-127
): (
117-118, 122-123, 125
) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view; (
119
) internal structures of aedeagus in lateral view; (
120, 124, 127
) male sternite VIII in ventral view; (
121
) male sternite VIII in lateral view; (
126
) ventral process of aedeagus in ventral view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.
Figs 128-131
:
Sunius berberus
(
COIFFAIT
)
(
128-129
) and
S. seminiger
(
FAIRMAIRE
)
(
130-131
): (
128, 130
) aedeagus in lateral view; (
129, 131
) male sternite VIII. Scale bars:
0.1 mm
.