Cephennium selenanum ASSING, 2019

Assing, Volker, Brachat, Volker & Meybohm, Heinrich, 2019, Monograph of the Staphylinidae of Crete (Greece). Part II. Descriptions of new species (Insecta: Coleoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (2), pp. 239-289 : 271

Cephennium selenanum ASSING spec. nov.

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Type material: Holotype ♂: “GR – Crete [28], SE Malia , Selena Oros , 35°14'40"N, 25°31'03"E, 880 m, sifted, 2.I.2018, V. Assing / Holotypus ♂ Cephennium selenanum sp. n. det. V. Assing 2018” ( cAss) . Paratype ♀: same data, but soil washing, 26.III.2018 (cAss) .

Etymology: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from the name of the mountain (Selena Oros) where the type locality is situated.

Description: Body length 0.95 mm; width of pronotum 0.35 mm; width of elytra 0.38 mm; length of antenna 0.36 mm. Other external characters as in C. sinuosum , C. hamulatum , and C. curvatum .

♂: aedeagus 0.31 mm long; ventral process of triangular shape in ventral view; internal sac with six long thin sclerotized spines ( Figs 123–124 ).

Comparative notes: This species is distinguished from C. hamulatum , C. sinuosum , and C. curvatum by the shape and internal structures of the aedeagus, from C. sinuosum also by smaller size.

Distribution and natural history: The type locality is situated in Selena Oros to the Southeast of Malia. The holotype was sifted from litter, roots, and moss in a calcareous north slope with Quercus ilex at an altitude of 880 m. The paratype was collected in the same locality by washing soil.

Figures

Figs 114–126: Cephennium spp.of the C. sinuosum group:C. sinuosum (114–117), C. fortespinosum (118–119), C. hamulatum (120– 121), C. curvatum (122), C. selenanum (123–124), and C. latius (125–126): habitus (114); aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (115–126). Scale bars: 114: 0.5 mm; 115–126: 0.1 mm.