Homaeotarsus koltzei ( EPPELSHEIM 1886) Assing, 2009

Assing, V., 2009, On the Western Palaearctic and Middle Asian species of Ochthephilum STEPHENS, with notes on Cryptobium koltzei EPPELSHEIM (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Cryptobiina), Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (1), pp. 397-426 : 422

Homaeotarsus koltzei ( EPPELSHEIM 1886) , nov.comb. ( Figs 54-57 )

Cryptobium koltzei EPPELSHEIM 1886: 40 f.

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d Holotype ♀: "Ch / 12. / Koltzei mihi, Chabarofka, Amur, ded. Koltze / collect. Eppelsh. / Koltzei Epp., Deutsch. ent. Zt. 1886. p. 40. / Typus / Holotypus ♀ Cryptobium koltzei Eppelsheim , rev. V. Assing 2008 / Homaeotarsus koltzei (Eppelsheim) , det. V. Assing 2008 (NHMW).

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Russia: 1♀, Primorskiy Kray, Ussuri region , 28.V.1958 ( NHMW) ; 13, Primorskiy Kray, Ussuriysk ["Nikolsk Ussurijsk"; 43°47'N, 131°54'E], leg. Mandl (cAss). China: 13, Harbin, Manshukuo, 5.VIII.1939, leg. Alin ( NHMW) .

C o m m e n t: The original description is based on "ein einziges ♀ von Chabarofka" ( EPPELSHEIM 1886). An examination of the type specimen and additional material from the collections of the NHMW revealed that the species refers to the genus Homaeotarsus HOCHHUTH 1851 . The male sexual characters are illustated in Figs 54-57 .

According to SMETANA (2004), H. koltzei is widespread and has been reported from eastern Siberia, the Russian Far East, North Corea, Mongolia, and the Northwest Territory of China.

Figures

Figs 54-65: Homaeotarsus koltzei (EPPELSHEIM) (54-57) and H. denticulatus nov.sp., holotype (58-65): (54, 60) male sternite VII; (55, 61) male sternite VIII; (56-57, 62-63) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view; (58) habitus; (59) forebody; (64) base of ventral process of aedeagus in lateral view; (65) ventral process of aedeagus in ventral view. Scale bars: 58-59: 1.0 mm; 54-57, 60-63: 0.5 mm; 64-65: 0.1 mm.