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
71
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journal article
10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.1.001-028
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Cephennium spinigerum
spec. nov.
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Type material examined
:
Holotype
: “
N41°28'08
E32°35'52
(21), TR
Bartin
30.4.2014
, Bahcedik
3 km
s
510 m
, Brachat & Meybohm /
Holotypus
Cephennium spinigerum
sp. n.
, det.
V
. Assing 2020” (cAss).
Etymology
: The specific epithet (Latin, adjective: spinose) alludes to the numerous spines in the internal sac of the aedeagus.
Description
: Body length
1.4 mm
. Habitus as in
Fig. 11
. Colouration: body dark-reddish. Antennae with antennomeres VIII–X moderately transverse, other external characters as in
C. varispinosum
.
: protibia subapically not curved, but somewhat flattened on inner side in apical portion; aedeagus (
Figs 42–43
)
0.38 mm
long; ventral process apically of triangular shape in ventral view; internal sac with numerous rather stout spines; parameres thin, not sinuate, extending to apical third of ventral process.
Comparative notes
: This species is distinguished from the similar and geographically close
C. victrix
only by the shape and internal structures of the aedeagus.
Distribution and natural history
: The type locality is situated in
Bartin province
, Northwest
Anatolia
(
Map 2
). The
holotype
was sifted from litter near old trees in a beech forest with rhododendron undergrowth at an altitude of
510 m
.