Cephennium dolucanum, Assing & Meybohm, 2021

Assing, Volker & Meybohm, Heinrich, 2021, The Cephennium fauna of Turkey and the Middle East (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 71 (1), pp. 1-28 : 21-22

Cephennium dolucanum spec. nov.

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( Figs 16 , 53 , Map 3 )

Type material: Holotype : “ N37°23'10 E36°40'51, TR Kahramanmaras, Doluca 1040 m (49), 40 km ssw K. Maras / Steine , Büsche , 4.5.2005 (49), leg. Brachat & Meybohm / Holotypus  Cephennium dolucanum sp. n., det. V. Assing 2020” (cAss) . Paratypes: 1 : same data as holotype (cAss); 2 , 1 : “ N37°23'10 E36°40'51 (28), TR Kahramanmaras, W Doluca 1040 m, 40 km SSW Maras Brachat & Meybohm 30.4.2007 ” (cAss); 2 , 1 : same data, but “(28a) ... 2.5.2007 ” (cAss) .

Etymology: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from Doluca, the populated place in whose environs the type locality is situated.

Description: Habitus as in Fig. 16 . External and male secondary sexual characters as in C. marasicum .

: aedeagus ( Fig. 53 ) short, broad, and apically truncate, 0.32 mm long; internal sac with structures of distinctive shape; paramere apically extending beyond apex of median lobe, with short apical seta.

Comparative notes: Cephennium dolucanum is distinguished from the externally identical and geographically close C. marasicum only by the internal structures of the aedeagus.

Distribution and natural history: The type locality is situated near Doluca, some 40 km to the southwest of Kahramanmaraş, Kahramanmaraş province, central southern Anatolia ( Map 3 ). The specimens were found under stones in the transition zone between arable land and a pine forest an altitude of 1040 m.

Figures

Map 3: Distributions of the species of the Cephennium jonicum and C. corruptum groups in Turkey: C. unguicum (grey stars); C. deplectens (white stars); C. sicaferum (grey triangles); C. duplum (grey diamonds); C. geminum (grey circles); C. reductum (black triangles); C. corruptum (black circles); C. fimbriatum (white square); C. besucheti (black square); C. affimbriatum (white circles); C. marasicum (black diamonds); C. dolucanum (white triangle); C. kartalicum (black star); C. nemruticum (white diamond).

Figs 9–16: Male habitus in dorsal view of Cephennium varispinosum (9), C. victrix (10), C. spinigerum (11), C. digitale (12), C. reductum (13), C. corruptum (14), C. marasicum (15), and C. dolucanum (16). Scale bar: 1.0 mm.

Figs 48–58: Aedeagus in lateral (48) and in ventral view (49–58) of Cephennium reductum (48–50), C. nemruticum (51), C. marasicum (52), C. dolucanum (53), C. besucheti (54), C. affimbriatum (55), C. kartalicum (56), C. corruptum (57), and C. fimbriatum (58). Scale bar: 0.1 mm.