The Cephennium fauna of Turkey and the Middle East (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
Author
Assing, Volker
Author
Meybohm, Heinrich
text
Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology
2021
2021-06-30
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journal article
10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.1.001-028
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Cephennium unguicum
spec. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
92FD91A3-6A6F-4EBB-BBBF-2CA222D6FD14
(
Figs 22
,
59
,
Map 3
)
Type material
:
Holotype
: “
N37°41'26
E027°13'43
(24),
Türkei
Aydin
Dilek Dagi
, s
Güzelcamli
410 m
28.4.2006
, l. Brachat & Meybohm /
Holotypus
Cephennium unguicum
sp. n.
, det.
V
. Assing 2020” (cAss)
.
Paratypes
: 3 , 2 : same data as holotype (cAss); 1 : “
N37°40'19
E027°10'41
(2),
Türkei
Aydin
Dilek Dagi
, s
Kanyon
670 m
17.4.2006
, l. Brachat & Meybohm” (cAss)
.
Fig. 71
: Type locality of
Cephennium jordanicum
. Ajlun Castle is visible in the background.
Etymology
: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from the Latin noun unguis (claw) and alludes to the conspicuous pair of claw-shaped structures in the internal sac of the aedeagus.
Description
: Body length 1.0–
1.1 mm
. Habitus as in
Fig. 22
. Punctation of pronotum more distinct than that of elytra. Eye rudiments minute, composed of three or four weakly defined ommatidia without pigmentation. Other external and male secondary sexual characters as in
C. marasicum
and
C. corruptum
, except as follows: : metaventrite not impressed, only indistinctly depressed in the middle at most; aedeagus (
Fig. 59
) small, broad, and apically truncate,
0.23-0.25 mm
long; internal sac with a pair of large and strongly curved claw-shaped structures; paramere apically extending to apex of median lobe, with short apical seta.
Comparative notes
:
Cephennium unguicum
is distinguished from the species of the
C. corruptum
subgroup by the presence of claw-shaped spines in the internal sac of the aedeagus. For characters separating it from other species of the
C. unguicum
subgroup see the comparative notes in the following sections.
Distribution and natural history
: The
type
locality is situated in Dilek Dağı (in the peninsula close to the Greek island Samos),
Aydın province
, Southwest
Anatolia
(
Map 3
). The specimens were collected at an altitude of
410 m
.