Anthobium unicolor ( Marsham, 1802 )

Shavrin, Alexey V., 2024, Review of the genus Anthobium Leach, 1819 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) of Western Palaearctic region, Zootaxa 5537 (4), pp. 451-474 : 468-469

Anthobium unicolor ( Marsham, 1802)

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Silpha unicolor Marsham, 1802: 127 .

Anthobium unicolor : Stephens 1834: 343; Assing 2004: 667, 2005: 57; Assing & Schülke 2019: 98.

Lathrimaeum unicolor : Stephens 1839: 426, Fauvel 1871 a: 119 [= 1872: 93], Ganglbauer 1895: 722, Luze 1905: 61, Reitter 1909: 188, Johansen 1914: 596, Portevin 1929: 441, Palm 1948: 101, Lohse 1964: 52, Coiffait 1978: 275, Tóth, 1982: 80.

Olophrum unicolor : Stephens, 1839: 427.

Lathrimaeum (Lathrimaeum) unicolor : Scheerpeltz, 1961: 81.

Anthobium assimile Stephens, 1834: 342 .

Lathrimaeum luteum Erichson, 1840: 869 ; G. Waterhouse, 1858: 31.

Lathrimaeum diabolicum Luze, 1905: 61 .

Lathrimaeum roubali Luze, 1911: 293 ; Roubal 1911: 2.

Lathrimaeum laterale Luze, 1911: 294 .

Lathrimaeum deinekini Roubal, 1913: 479 syn. n.

Other references see in Herman (2001).

Type material examined. Holotype of Lathrimaeum laterale Luze, 1911 ♂ ( Fig. 22 ; left antennomeres 10–11 missing): ‘ ♂ ’ <printed>, ‘Caucasus occ. | КраснаЯ ПолЯна | Roubal VII. 1910 ’ <blue, printed>, ‘Type. | laterale m. | Luze’ <handwritten>, ‘ex. coll. | Luze’ <yellow, printed>, ‘TYPUS [printed] | Lathrimaeum | laterale | Luze.’ <red, handwritten>, ‘ Holotypus | Lathrimaeum | laterale Luze | rev. V. Assing 2004 ’ <printed>, ‘ Anthobium | unicolor | (Marsham) | det. V. Assing 2004 ’ ( NMW).

Paralectotype of Lathrimaeum roubali Luze, 1911 ♂: ‘Caucasus occ. | КраснаЯ ПолЯна [Krasnaya Polyana] Roubal VII. 1910 ’ <blue, printed>, ‘Type | Lathri- | maeum Roubali Luze’ <red, printed> ( SNMB) .

Lectotype (here designated) of Lathrimaeum deinekini Roubal, 1913 ♂: ‘Caucasus bor. | Teberda’ <printed>, ‘ Lathrimaeum | deineckini Roub.’ <handwritten>, ‘ LECTOTYPE | Lathrimaeum | deinekini Roubal, 1913 | Shavrin A.V. des. 2014’ <red, printed>, ‘ Anthobium | unicolor ( Marsham, 1802) | Shavrin A.V. det. 2024’ ( NMPC). Paralectotypes: 2 ♀♀: ‘Ca. b. Teberda | VI. 912 Roubal’ <yellow, printed>, ‘Cotypus’ <handwritten>, ‘deinekini [handwritten] Roubal det’ <printed> ( NMPC); 1 ♂: ‘Ca. b. Teberda VI. 912 Roubal’ <printed>, ‘ Lathrimaeum Deinekini type Roubal det.’ <handwritten>, ‘Syntype’ <red, printed> ( ZIN); 1 ex.: ‘Ca. b. Teberda VI. 912 Roubal’ <printed>, ‘TYPUS’ <yellow, printed>, ‘Deineckini Roub.’ <handwritten>, ‘Coll. Dr. Lgocki’ <printed> ( ZIN). One paralectotype deposited in the collection of MACN, Buenos Aires ( Bachmann et al. 2017); photographs of the habitus and labels as in Figs 14–15 in Bachmann et al. (2017).

Additional material examined. SPAIN: HUESCA: 1 ♀: Barranco de Izas. 1580 m a.s.l.. 19.06.2005. A. Anichtchenko leg. (cSh) ; RUSSIA: KRASNODAR TERRITORY: 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀: Temnolesskoye. 04.05.1999. V. Grebennikov leg. (cKh, cSh); 1 ex.: Aderbievka, Ostraya Mt. 20.04.1952. K. Arnol`di leg. ( ZIN); ADYGEA: 1 ex.: Azovskaya. 11.04.1950. K. Arnol`di leg. ( ZIN); 1 ♂: Lagonaki. D. Fominykh leg. (cSh); 4 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀: Abadzekhskaya St. , “Lesnaya Skazka”. 05.2009. V. Bibin leg. (cKh, cSh); KARACHAY-CHERKESSIA: 2 ♂: Teberda State Nature Biosphere Reserve , Dombay. 1700 m, pebble bank of Amanaus River , near edge of forest. 31.05.1985. P. K. Yeremin leg. (cSh); GEORGIA: SHIDA KARTLI: 1 ♀: Surami (=Ricoti) pass, ca 100 m a.s.l., forest with Fagus , Alnus , Castanea , Rhododendron , litter and under stones. 14.04, 17.05.1983. S.I. Golovatch leg. ( ZMM); KAKHETI: 1 ♀: Mariandjvari State Reserve , NNE Sagarejo. 1150-1250 m a.s.l., forest with Fagus , Carpinus , Acer , Pinus etc. 13- 14.05.1987. S.I. Golovatch & K.Yu. Es`kov leg. (cSh) .

Remarks. Lathrimaeum roubali and L. laterale were originally described from “Kaukasus occid. (Krasnaja Poljana)”. Assing (2004, 2005) synonymized both species with A. unicolor . The holotype of A. laterale as in Fig. 22 . Based on an unspecified number of syntypes, Roubal (1913) described L. deinekini from “Teberda”. The male from NMPC I designate here as the lectotype. During the study of specimens of A. deinekini , I didn`t find morphological differences between them and studied specimens of A. unicolor from different regions. Thus, A. deinekini was synonymized with the latter species. Anthobium unicolor is widely distributed in Europe ( Herman 2001), including Caucasus. It is here recorded from Georgia for the first time.

Figures

FIGURES 19–23. Habitus of Lathrimaeum (types) and Anthobium: 19–L. moczarskii (holotype), 20–L. metallicum (holotype), 21–L. tenue (lectotype), 22–L. laterale (holotype), 23–A. ganglbaueri (Turkey, Ulu Dað). Scale bar: 1.0 mm.

FIGURES 13–17. Aedeagus of Anthobium (Figs 13–14: A. longicorne (Algeria, Tikjida), Fig. 15: L. longicorne (Algeria, Babor Mt.), Figs 16–17: A. metallicum (Turkey, Isparta): 13, 15–16–parameral view, 14, 17–lateral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm.