A revision of Western Palaearctic Medon. VII. A new species from southern Turkey and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) Author Assing, V. text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2009 2009-12-18 41 2 1253 1268 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5276595 0253-116X 5276595 Medon perniger COIFFAIT 1978 A d d i t i o n a l t y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d M. p. fraudulentus : Holotype 3: Sicilien , Messina, April 43 / leg. Wolfrum / Type / Medon pernigrum fraudulentum H. Coiffait 1978 / Sammlung Dr. Ulbrich ( SMNS ). Paratypes : 1 ex. : same data as holotype ( SMNS ) ; 2 exs. : Sicilien-Messina, 28.II.42 (SMNS); 2 exs. , same data, but 13.12.42 ( SMNS ) ; 2 exs. : same data, but 6.3.43 (SMNS). M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Italy : 1 ex. , Toscana , Piombino ( NHMW ) ; 1 ex. , Calabria , Passo Scalone , 744 m , 31.V.1951 , leg. Busulini (cAss) . C o m m e n t: The Adriato-Mediterranean distribution of M. perniger ranges from Sicily in the south to southeastern France and southern Switzerland in the north ( ASSING 2006 ). Previously, only a paratype of M. perniger fraudulentus COIFFAIT 1978, a junior syonym of M. perniger , was examined ( ASSING 2006 ).