Lathrobium furcatum Czwalina, 1888

Anlas, Sinan, 2013, A new species and additional records of the genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802 from Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (1), pp. 83-91 : 87

Lathrobium furcatum Czwalina, 1888

MATERIAL STUDIED: 1♂, IRAQ, northern Iraq, ca 10 km NW Suleimaniyah province, 17-20.V.2008, leg. Sevinç ( cAnl). – 2♂, TURKEY, Erzincan, Üzümlü, Küçük Sarıkaya creek bank, 1713 m, 39°14'20’’N, 39°50'02’’E, 18.V.2011, leg. Anlas ,, Özgen & Khachikov.

DISTRIBUTION: L. furcatum is widespread from Turkey, Iran and Caucasus region across Balkans into the southeast of Central Europe ( Smetana, 2004; Assing, 2009; Anlas, et al., 2011). But the exact locality of this species has not been cited from Turkey by previous studies ( Coiffait, 1982; Smetana, 2004; Anlas,, 2009). The species is here reported from Iraq for the first time.