Oxypoda judaea SAULCY 1865

Assing, V., 2006, On some species of Oxypoda MANNERHEIM from Turkey and adjacent regions (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1), pp. 277-331 : 286-287

Oxypoda judaea SAULCY 1865 (Figs 53-64, Map 4 )

Oxypoda judaea SAULCY 1865: 634 .

Type material examined: Lectotype 3 [dissected prior to present study], here designated: Jerusalem / Ox. Judaea / Ox. judaea Scy. typi unici / Lectotype M. Tronquet déterm. 1998 / Muséum Paris Coll. Abeille de Perrin / Ocyusa [sic] judaea Saulcy M. Tronquet dét. 1998 / Lectotypus 3 Oxypoda judaea Saulcy desig. V. Assing 2006 / Oxypoda judaea Saulcy det. V. Assing 2006 ( MNHNP). Paralectotype ♀: Jerusalem, Ox. judaea / Ox. judaea Scy. typi unici (copia) / Paralectotype M. Tronquet déterm. 1998 / Muséum Paris Coll. Abeille de Perrin / Ocyusa [sic] judaea Saulcy M. Tronquet dét. 1998 / Oxypoda judaea Saulcy det. V. Assing 2006 ( MNHNP).

Additional material examined: Turkey, Gaziantep: 13, 1♀, Kartal Dağı, E Isikli, 37°10N, 37°13E, 1100 m, 25.IV.2004, leg. Besuchet (cAss).

R e d e s c r i p t i o n: 2.5-2.7 mm; habitus as in Fig. 53. Dark-coloured species: body blackish, with the posterior margins of the abdominal segments indistinctly paler; legs dark brown with yellowish to light-brown tarsi; antennae and maxillary palpi blackish.

Head weakly transverse; puncturation very fine and rather sparse; microsculpture shallow, but distinct; eyes large, clearly longer than postocular region in dorsal view. Antenna relatively short; antennomere IV weakly transverse; V distinctly transverse; X approximately twice as wide as long; XI in both sexes constricted in the middle (Fig. 55). Penultimate joint of maxillary palpus of moderate length, approximately 2.5 times as long as wide.

Pronotum about 1.4 times as wide as head and 1.4 times as wide as long (Fig. 54); maximal width in or slightly behind middle; puncturation moderately dense, shallow, and rather ill-defined; microsculpture distinct; surface with little shine.

Elytra 1.15-1.20 times as wide as pronotum and at suture approximately as long as pronotum; puncturation more distinct, more well-defined, and denser than that of pronotum; surface with distinct microreticulation and little shine (Fig. 54). Hind wings fully developed. Legs moderately slender; metatarsomere I approximately as long as the combined length of metatarsomeres II-IV.

Abdomen slightly narrower than elytra; segments III-VI of subequal width, apex weakly tapering; puncturation dense and distinct on all tergites, not distinctly sparser on tergite VIII than on tergite IV; punctures connected by microstriae forming rhomboid meshes (similar to some species of Oligota, Placusa, and Aleochara ) (Fig. 56); posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe.

3: sternite VIII transverse, its posterior margin distinctly pointed in the middle (Fig. 57); median lobe of aedeagus shaped as in Figs 59-62, with relatively long flagellum in internal sac; apical lobe of paramere rather short, with one short apical and three long setae (Fig. 63).

♀: sternite VIII distinctly transverse, its posterior margin broadly convex and with weakly modified stout marginal setae (Fig. 58); spermatheca with very long duct (Fig. 64).

C o m m e n t s: The original description of O. judaea is based on three syntypes from the surroundings of Jerusalem ( SAULCY 1865). Two of these syntypes were found in the de Perrin colletion in the MNHNP. They had been examined and dissected by M. Tronquet who apparently planned to designate a lectotype and transfer the species to the genus Ocyusa KRAATZ. The lectotype designation is here formally established.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The species is readily separated from other congeners occurring in the Eastern Mediterranean especially by the distinctive microsculpture and puncturation of the abdomen, but also by the dark coloration and the sexual characters.

D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d b i o n o m i c s: The species was previously known from the surroundings of Jerusalem ( SAULCY 1865) and from Azerbaijan ( BERNHAUER 1902). It is here reported from Turkey ( Map 4 ) for the first time.

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Map 4: Distributions of Oxypoda judaea (square), O. flavocaudata (filled circles), and O. ahirica (open circle) in southern Turkey.