Revision of some types of North American aleocharines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with synonymic notes
Author
Gusarov, Vladimir I.
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Leptusa
(
Adoxopisalia
)
elegans
Blatchley, 1910
(Figs.
755–758 in
Pace 1989
)
Leptusa elegans
Blatchley, 1910: 342
.
Sipalia
(
s. str.
)
fontana
Casey, 1911a: 157
,
syn. nov.
Pasilia virginica
Casey, 1911a: 202
,
syn. nov.
Leptusa
(
s. str.
)
elegans
:
Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926: 554
(as valid species).
Sipalia
(
s. str.
)
fontana
:
Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926: 601
(as valid species).
Leptusa
(
Pasilia
)
virginica
:
Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926: 558
(as valid species).
Leptusa fontana
:
Lohse & Smetana, 1988: 270
(as valid species).
Meronera elegans
:
Pace, 1989: 24
(as valid species).
Leptusa
(
Adoxopisalia
)
virginica
:
Pace, 1989: 132
(as valid species).
Type material.
Lectotype
of
Leptusa elegans
(here designated),
♂
, “TYPE” (red label), “
Pulasky Co.
Ind.
[iana] W. S. B. [Blatchley] 61908 [
19.vi.1908
]”, “Purdue Blatchley Collection”, “
Leptusa elegans
sp. nov.
4890” (
PURC
);
paralectotype
,
♀
, was mounted on the same card as the
lectotype
(
PURC
).
Lectotype
of
Sipalia fontana
(here designated):
♂
, “Buena Vista Spg. [Spring]
Franklin Co.
Pa.
[
Pennsylvania
]”, “
fontana
Csy.
”, “TYPE USNM 39024” (red label), “CASEY bequest 1925” (
NMNH
);
paralectotypes
:
2♀♀
, “Buena Vista Spg. [
Spring
]
Franklin Co.
Pa.
[
Pennsylvania
]”, “
fontana
PARATYPE
USNM 39024” (red label), “CASEY bequest 1925” (
NMNH
).
Lectotype
of
Pasilia virginica
(designated by
Pace (1989))
:
♂
, “Va. [
Virginia, Norfolk
]”, “
Pasilia virginica
Csy.
”, “TYPE USNM 39586” (red label), “CASEY bequest 1925”, “
Leptusa virginica
(Cas.)
det.
R. Pace
1981” (
NMNH
);
paralectotypes
:
3 specimens
, “Va. [
Virginia, Norfolk
]”, “
virginica
PARATYPE
USNM 39586” (red label), “CASEY bequest 1925”, “
vidit
R. Pace
1981” (
NMNH
).
Additional material.
UNITED STATES
:
New Jersey
:
Burlington Co.:
♀
, Pine Barrens, Whitesbog, sifting,
30.v.1999
(A.Berkov) (
SPSU
);
New York
:
Orange Co.:
5 specimens
,
8 km
S New Windsor, Black Rock Forest,
23–25.v.1998
(V.I.Gusarov);
7 specimens
, ditto but
9.v.1998
(
SPSU
);
Pennsylvania
:
Clinton Co.:
12 specimens
,
26 km
SEE Lock Haven,
41º03.23'N
77º09.65'W
,
350m
,
Quercus
,
Tsuga
,
Pinus
,
5.vi.1999
(V.I.Gusarov) (
SPSU
);
Vermont
:
Windsor Co.:
15 specimens
,
8 km
SEE Springfield, Hwy. I91,
43º14.00'N
72º26.81'W
,
250m
, forest litter,
Acer
,
Betula
,
Quercus
,
Tsuga
,
21.ix.1998
(V.I.Gusarov) (
SPSU
).
Diagnosis.
See
Pace (1989)
.
Discussion.
Pace did not have an opportunity to examine the type of
Le.
elegans
. Without any argumentation he (
Pace 1989
) transferred this species to the genus
Meronera
Sharp, 1887
. My examination of the
lectotype
of
Le.
elegans
demonstrated that it belongs to
Leptusa
and is conspecific with
Le.
fontana
and
Le.
virginica
.
Pace (1989)
designated the
lectotype
of
Pasilia virginica
but failed to appropriately label any of the
four types
of this species in the Casey collection. Because only
one specimen
was dissected by
Pace
it seems reasonable to conclude that this specimen represents the
lectotype
illustrated by
Pace in Figs.
756–758. I attached the
lectotype
label to this specimen
.
The female specimen from
Arkansas
illustrated by
Pace (1989
, Fig. 759) belongs to a closely related but different species. This species will be described elsewhere.
Distribution.
Leptusa elegans
is known from
Vermont
,
New York
,
New Jersey
,
Pennsylvania
,
Virginia
and
Indiana
.