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<taxonomicName id="E9595CD61A3EC8A5B93F5408463643D1" ID-CoL="4R2VC" authority="Luze, 1904" authorityName="Luze" authorityYear="1904" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Quedius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Quedius (Microsaurus) solskyi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="solskyi" subGenus="Microsaurus">Quedius (Microsaurus) solskyi Luze, 1904</taxonomicName>
Figs 9, 10
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<taxonomicName id="CACE0CE5AFD9F62F54D4DC29E2C93BF0" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Quedius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Quedius asiaticus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="asiaticus">Quedius asiaticus</taxonomicName>
Bernhauer, 1918, syn. n.
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<taxonomicName id="BCC97EDACD415CBF32643B12AC41EBD5" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Quedius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Quedius solskyi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="solskyi">Quedius solskyi</taxonomicName>
Luze, 1904, 99 (original description);
<bibRefCitation id="C6521DDFECFE9ED99CA77F14BC1FAD6F" author="Gridelli, E" journalOrPublisher="Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana" pageId="25" pageNumber="142" pagination="5 - 180" title="Studi sul genere Quedius Steph. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Secondo contributo. Specie della regione paleartica." volume="3" year="1924">Gridelli 1924</bibRefCitation>
, 72 (characteres, notes);
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<taxonomicName id="A84B730C2DE679268023C0794236DC8D" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Quedius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Quedius asiaticus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="asiaticus">Quedius asiaticus</taxonomicName>
Bernhauer, 1918, 92 (original desription);
<bibRefCitation id="F5837886C50DF50047912B9825F4C465" author="Gridelli, E" journalOrPublisher="Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana" pageId="25" pageNumber="142" pagination="5 - 180" title="Studi sul genere Quedius Steph. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Secondo contributo. Specie della regione paleartica." volume="3" year="1924">Gridelli 1924</bibRefCitation>
, 57 (characters);
<bibRefCitation id="50835E9605D3C407B83ED9C3E930319A" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Coiffait 1978</bibRefCitation>
, 183 (characters);
<bibRefCitation id="91C77621306781D5E8A72BFF4929D6D5" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Kascheev 2002</bibRefCitation>
, 181 (distribution records).
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<paragraph id="BE3703B673FADB9B7D94454C31C47957" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6D83AA2F674CC067A5F87CEAA91943AB" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Type material: Quedius solskyi: Tajikistan: Lectotype (here designated): ♂, &quot;♂/ Trkst. Jagnob Schach-Sara, Glasunov 1892 [printed]/ Type solskyi Luze [handwritten]/ ex. coll. Luze/ ex. coll. Scheerpeltz [printed]/ Typus Quedius solskyi Luze [pre-printed] &quot; (Fig. 9E) (NMW);</paragraph>
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Quedius asiaticus: Tajikistan or Uzbekistan: Lectotype (here designated): ♂ &quot;Ost. Buchara Rickmers. [handwritten] / Mus. Bremen [handwritten]/ asiaticus Bernh. Typus [handwritten]/ Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection [printed]
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; paralectotype: 1 ♂ &quot;abietum [illegible word] [handwritten]/ asiaticus Bernh. Cotypus. [handwritten]/ Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection [printed]
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(Fig. 10G, H) (FMHN),
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<paragraph id="2D7BAC39B33781D98610F71774EF696E" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Additional material.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="5ED9B40949882029EAC818CE0D3F4692" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Tajikistan: 1 ♂, Ramid [Ramit], Kafirnigan River, 27.VII.1939, A. Romanov leg. (ZMMU).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B044287F86DC4BAD82052B5D51B2EB99" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Comments on taxonomy, lectotype designation and new synonymy.</paragraph>
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In the original description of
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,
<bibRefCitation id="E563A55A8D0628B118DEE7EA6B265252" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Luze (1904)</bibRefCitation>
did not specify the number of specimens he studied, but provided characters for both sexes and the locality &quot;Jagnob: Kol,
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[Tajikistan, Yaghnob river, Sughd Distr.]. Therefore, a male from NMW with the locality label
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Trkst. Jagnob
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is considered a syntype. We could not locate other syntypes.
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, similarly to the case with
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, based his notes about
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only on
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description, without checking type material. And as with other species of
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described by
<bibRefCitation id="DA5411F7E615581FAE48DB1312AFCE1C" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Luze (1904)</bibRefCitation>
,
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is missing in the monograph of
<bibRefCitation id="26C9174E07DCCEE20D6123B5947F2D25" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Coiffait (1978)</bibRefCitation>
. Under the circumstances of uncertain identity of other syntypes, we designate the only available male syntype as a lectotype to unambigiously fix the identity of
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="5122784F6EF679AD659A420D0182A383" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">
<bibRefCitation id="E3E49AA1A50604E4A9E5465EA95AC499" author="Bernhauer, M" journalOrPublisher="zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien" pageId="25" pageNumber="142" pagination="92 - 96" title="Neue Quedius Arten der palaearktischen Fauna. Verhandlungen der k. k." url="http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/VZBG_68_0092-0096.pdf" volume="68" year="1918">Bernhauer (1918)</bibRefCitation>
described
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from
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Ost.
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and compared it with
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distributed in southern Europe.
<bibRefCitation id="F54954975751F9DCCDC9CA4C459283DF" author="Bernhauer, M" journalOrPublisher="zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien" pageId="25" pageNumber="142" pagination="92 - 96" title="Neue Quedius Arten der palaearktischen Fauna. Verhandlungen der k. k." url="http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/VZBG_68_0092-0096.pdf" volume="68" year="1918">Bernhauer (1918)</bibRefCitation>
did not even mention
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, even though his description matches the latter species. Both examined syntypes of
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are clearly conspecific in morphology. In order to fix the identity of the species, we designate here one better preserved male syntype (Fig. 10A, B) with the locality label &quot;Ost. Buchara&quot; exactly matching the data from the original description and the identification label &quot;
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Bernh. Typus&quot; hand written by Bernhauer as a lectotype.
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<paragraph id="BE2DC4EBF8DB9CE72FFEC0F963EF2F50" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">
Our examination of the mentioned types of both
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and
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undoubtedly reveal they are conspecific. Thus we place
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Bernhauer, 1918 in synonymy with
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Luze, 1904 and provide a redescription with the first illustration of the aedeagus of this poorly known species.
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<paragraph id="B84DB3EBFE02C5E67F95525ADA3EF096" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Redescription.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="75EDF5DB61FCECDDAA47C2B494728AD6" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Measurements and ratios (arithmetic mean = 4): HL: 1.4-1.6 (1.5); HW: 1.7-1.9 (1.9); PL: 1.6-1.8 (1.7); PW: 1.9-2.1 (2.1); EL: 2.0-2.2 (2.1); EW: 1.9-2.1 (2.0); FB: 5.1-5.6 (5.3); TL: 8.1-9.7 (9.1); HL/HW: 0.7-0.8 (0.8); PL/PW: 0.8-0.9 (0.9); EL/EW: 1.0-1.1 (1.1).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="0D7BCF7ED8EB12D4B2D95F9C97034298" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">
Body dark brown to brown; apical margin of abdominal tergites vaguely paler; elytra reddish; maxillary and labial palpi, as well as antennae dark-brownish; body glossy (Figs 9A, 10
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).
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<paragraph id="2FEAF7EC22CAFE87776D1E72D70782F4" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Head wider than long HL/HW: 0.7-0.8 (0.8), eyes very small, not convex; temples more than two times as long as longitudinal diameter of eye; posterior frontal puncture in the middle between anterior puncture and posterior margin of head; temporal puncture closer to posterior margin of head than to posterior margin of eye; two vertical punctures arranged in almost straight line between posterior frontal puncture and neck; microsculpture with transverse waves. Antennae long: antennal segments: 3rd longer than 2nd; 4th-10th slightly widening towards apex of antenna.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="49C31E1C99DEAD8F9B6177E7728E0B85" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Pronotum slightly wider than long PL/PW: 0.8-0.9 (0.9), widest at its middle, slightly narrowing anteriad; hind angles rounded, barely distinct; dorsal and sublateral rows each with three punctures; microsculpture with transverse waves similar to that on posterior part of head. Scutellum impunctate, with microsculpture as on pronotum. Elytra parallel-sided, as long as or longer than wide, narrower and longer than pronotum; punctation dense, setation brownish, interspaces shiny and with distinct minute irregularities.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="1FF6C2FA4929B4EF7F579D91635BA293" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Abdomen: punctation fine and moderately dense; interspaces with vaguely distinct minute irregularities; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="9761F8B9B3B4171E946A79419B06E946" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">
Male: head wider than long, larger than in females and with longer temples (
<bibRefCitation id="97EBE06A4DC5F8991B7C6F20A985DAD3" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Luze 1904</bibRefCitation>
). Aedeagus (Figs 9
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, 10C, D, E, F): Median lobe (in parameral view) parallel-sided along most of its length with obtusely pointed apex, with tooth located near apex (Figs 9B, 10C, E). Paramere parallel-sided, its apex almost reaching apex of median lobe; with two pairs of apical setae and two pairs of lateral setae below apex; underside with pair of peg setae close to apical margin on each side of medial emargination (Figs 9C, 10D, F).
</paragraph>
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Figure 9.
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, lectotype. A, habitus.
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, aedeagus: B, lateral view; C, paramere, underside. D, median lobe, ventral view. E, labels. Scale bars: 1 mm.
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<paragraph id="126E7572023C8942538D57B7AA085B0E" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Comparison.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2770A95ECFAE79FB1753654DE9148FF9" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">
<taxonomicName id="A3E3DE12276F6FA8BD7ED69C76AC41A2" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Quedius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Quedius solskyi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="solskyi">Quedius solskyi</taxonomicName>
is similar to
<taxonomicName id="E7E3BDD547BE255EA9BB8AAB3794E3F1" lsidName="Q. fusicornis" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" rank="species" species="fusicornis">Q. fusicornis</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4F1BB1588B35FE5C73FDAF170026FD52" lsidName="Q. ochripennis" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" rank="species" species="ochripennis">Q. ochripennis</taxonomicName>
, but it can be externally distinguished from both by the larger body size, distinctly elongated elytra and smaller eyes with their diameter two times as short as tempora. In the structure of the aedeagus
<taxonomicName id="4829146E357634C2BCF7EF3652F43B15" lsidName="Q. solskyi" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" rank="species" species="solskyi">Q. solskyi</taxonomicName>
is more similar to
<taxonomicName id="931EE0F97D7EC69BC28BF2737555019C" lsidName="Q. fusicornis" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" rank="species" species="fusicornis">Q. fusicornis</taxonomicName>
but differs from the latter by the paramere with incised apex and two pairs of sensory peg setae. The aedeagi of
<taxonomicName id="DA8F761B51257DACB0D23366B42FDC67" lsidName="Q. solskyi" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" rank="species" species="solskyi">Q. solskyi</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="3FBC3414B7DAF228C2B51C166C90E197" lsidName="Q. ochripennis" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" rank="species" species="ochripennis">Q. ochripennis</taxonomicName>
differ in many ways.
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<subSubSection id="F4AAFFBA9FA9CB48ACFFDA5A030AABC6" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="D936C0AB29C8D7949E0788ABE5FDCF91" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C7C3B608D2B7F15FBF299BDD759AC784" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">
Vaguely recorded type localities for
<taxonomicName id="3F4C009B1F83C0C60EFD9F5F34CFCD49" lsidName="Q. solskyi" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" rank="species" species="solskyi">Q. solskyi</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="80AA2CC279CB203DE3993D516D94DFD9" lsidName="Q. asiaticus" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" rank="species" species="asiaticus">Q. asiaticus</taxonomicName>
are located somewhere in northern Tajikistan and in eastern Uzbekistan or western Tajikistan. The only additional and better georeferenced specimen examined here comes from western Tajikistan: Ramid, Kafirnigan River.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="1B0E75206A24D96D2E0156300D359398" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" type="bionomics">
<paragraph id="0BC8A371FD405AAE4B2CB42ABABF48BA" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Bionomics.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D35B664EFDD326AD2F14E6BBDAD43D6D" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">Unknown.</paragraph>
<caption id="5238A59A898954625CC98EBDC8246084" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">
<paragraph id="849F06021568130C7549581D479E6B51" pageId="9" pageNumber="126">
Figure 10.
<taxonomicName id="23EC48435830AB684B0A23A6961F938E" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Quedius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Quedius asiaticus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="asiaticus">Quedius asiaticus</taxonomicName>
(new synonym of
<taxonomicName id="175A3AD64A75A9B33C02C345BA864034" lsidName="Q. solskyi" pageId="9" pageNumber="126" rank="species" species="solskyi">Q. solskyi</taxonomicName>
), syntypes. A, B, habitus.
<normalizedToken id="550B20FF02D126DBE3E1979775590417" originalValue="CF">C-F</normalizedToken>
, aedeagus. C, E, median lobe, lateral view; D, F, paramere, underside. G, H, labels. Scale bars: 1 mm.
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</caption>
</subSubSection>
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