On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Aleochara species of the subgenera Xenochara M & R and Rheochara M & R (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
Author
Assing, V.
text
Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology
2009
2009-07-15
59
1
33
101
journal article
0005-805X
Aleochara (Xenochara) kaszabi
LIKOVSKÝ
, 1968
(
Figs 184-186
)
Aleochara
(
Polychara
)
kaszabi
LIKOVSKÝ, 1968:
164
f.
Type material examined:
Holotype
♂
[dissected prior to present study; aedeagus flattened, somewhat deformed]: "
Mongolia
,
Central
aimak,
126 km
N v. Ulan-Baator, am
Wege
,
Exp. Dr. Z. Kaszab
, 1964 / Nr. 290,
9.VII.1964
/
Holotypus
1966,
Aleochara Kaszabi Likovsky
[curator label] /
Holotypus
Aleochara ultima
m.,
Zb. Likovský
det. 1966 /
Holotypus
/
Aleochara kaszabi Likovský
, det.
V. Assing
2009" (
HNHM
).
Comment:
This species has never been recorded since its original description, which is based on a single
holotype
male from "
Mongolia
: Central aimak,
126 km
N von Ulan-Baator" (
LIKOVSKY 1968
). An examination of the
holotype
revealed that the aedeagus is deformed (probably squeezed in the course of microscopic preparation). In external characters, the general morphology of the aedeagus, in particular the shape of the ventral process and the internal structures (
Figs 184-186
),
A. kaszabi
is highly similar to
A. sanguinea
and
A. villosa
MANNERHEIM, 1839
. It is separated from both species by the denser punctation of the elytra and the abdomen, as well as by the different shape of the apical internal structures of the aedeagus.