Aleochara (Xenochara) nigerrima KRAATZ , 1856

Assing, V., 2009, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Aleochara species of the subgenera Xenochara M & R and Rheochara M & R (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1), pp. 33-101 : 83

Aleochara (Xenochara) nigerrima KRAATZ, 1856 ( Fig. 176)

Aleochara nigerrima KRAATZ, 1856: 104 .

Type material examined:

Syntype ♀: "6 / 56 / nigerrima mihi, Hisp. Hdschh. / coll. Kraatz / Syntypus / coll. DEI Müncheberg / Syntypus ♀ Aleochara nigerrima Kraatz , rev. V. Assing 2009 / Aleochara nigerrima Kraatz , det. V. Assing 2009" ( SDEI) .

Additional material examined:

Spain: A ♀, Andalucía, Cádiz, Zahara de los Atunes , 14.-21.III.1990, leg. Matern (cAss) .

Comment:

The original description is based on an unspecified number of syntypes collected "von Handschuch [sic] in Spanien " ( KRAATZ 1856). One - most likely the only - syntype, a female, was located in the Kraatz collection at the SDEI. Its spermatheca is illustrated in Fig. 176 .

The species has been recorded only from Spain and Algeria ( SMETANA 2004). It somewhat resembles a very large specimen of A. laevigata , but is distinguished from that species by distinctly longer and more slender antennae, much sparser and finer punctation of the abdomen, very large and well-defined reddish-yellow elytral spots, and a spermatheca of completely different shape.