A revision of the Sunius species of the Western Palaearctic region and Middle Asia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
Author
Assing, V.
Author
A, North
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2008
2008-07-10
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.13133503
0253-116X
13133503
4.51.
Sunius atlasicus
(
COIFFAIT
1970)
(
Figs 122-124
, Map 19)
Hypomedon atlasicum
[sic]
COIFFAIT
1970: 725
.
T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d:
Holotype
3: "
Maroc
, 22.3.68, Col du Zad, H. Coiffait /
Holotype
/
Hypomedon atlasicus Coiff.
, det. H.
Coiffait 1968
/
Sunius atlasicus (Coiffait)
det. V. Assing 2007" (MNHNP).
Paratypes
:
2♀♀
[1 labelled as
allotype
, 1 labelled as
paratype
]: same data as
holotype
(MNHNP).
C o m m e n t: The original description is based on a
holotype
male and
15 paratypes
from "Col du Zad, Moyen Atlas Marocain" and
one paratype
from "Aguelmane Sidi Ali" [
33°04'N
,
05°00'W
] (
COIFFAIT 1970
).
D i a g n o s i s: External morphology as in
S. tuniseus
, except for the slightly larger eyes.
3: sternite VII with weakly concave posterior margin, pubescence not modified; sternite VIII as in
Fig. 124
, with distinct pubescent tubercle; aedeagus as in
Figs 122-123.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: The species has become known only from two localities in the Moyen Atlas,
Morocco
(Map 19).