Omalium riparium impar Mulsant & Rey, 1861

Shavrin, Alexey V. & Khachikov, Eduard A., 2023, Faunistic and diagnostic notes on some species of the genus Omalium Gravenhorst, 1802 of Caucasus, Turkey and Iran (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae, Omaliini), Zootaxa 5227 (4), pp. 443-458 : 450

Omalium riparium impar Mulsant & Rey, 1861

( Figs. 6 , 23–24 , 38 )

Omalium riparium impar Mulsant & Rey, 1861: 182

Material examined. RUSSIA: KRASNODAR TeRRITORY: 1 ♁: 6 km NE Soloniko vill., Sochi National Park. 28– 30.05.2009. A.V. Anichtchenko leg. (cSh); 1 ♁, 1 ♀: Caucasus Nature Reserve, Khosta , Tiso-Samshitovaya Roshcha , Khosta River . 20 m a.s.l., river bank: under stones and in mosses between Ranunculus . 15.05.1985. A.B. Ryvkin leg. (cSh) .

Published records. RUSSIA: KRASNODAR TeRRITORY: Zanetti 2002: 55.

Distribution. Omalium riparium impar is distributed in Northern Africa and Europe ( Schülke & Smetana 2015).

Remarks. Habitus as in Fig. 6 . Aedeagus as in Figs. 23–24 . Female genital segment as in Fig. 38 .

Figures

FIGURES 1–10. Habitus of Omalium: 1—O. caesum (Turkey, Bursa: Uludağ), 2—O. cinnamomeum (Turkey, Antakya: Kişlak- Şenköy), 3—O. excavatum (Russia, Karachay-Cherkessia: Arkhyz), 4—O. falsum (Georgia, Tskhneti), 5—O. littorale (Russia, Adygea: Abago), 6—O. riparium impar (Russia, Krasnodar Territory: Khosta), 7—O. rivulare (Armenia, Alaverdi), 8—O. rugatum (Iran, Zagros Mts.), 9—O. turcicum (Russia, Adygea: Lagonaki), 10—O. wunderlei (Turkey, Gümüşhane: Erzincan- Kelkit). Scale bars: 1.0 mm.

FIGURES 19–26. Aedeagus of Omalium falsum (Figs. 19–20: Georgia, Tskhneti), O. littorale (Figs. 21–22: Russia, North Ossetia-Alania: Kabardino-Sunzhenskiy Mts.), O. riparium impar (Figs. 23–24: Russia, Kransnodar Territory: Sochi National Park), O. rivulare (Figs. 25–26: Turkey, Artvin: Artvin): 19, 21, 23, 25—parameral view, 20, 22, 24, 26— lateral view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.

FIGURES 33–41. Female genital segment (ventral view) and spermatheca (shown by arrow in Fig. 40) of Omalium: 33—O. caesum (Russia, North Ossetia-Alania: Zincar), 34—O. cinnamomeum (Turkey, Antakya: Kişlak-Şenköy), 35—O. excavatum (Russia, Krasnodar Territory: Caucasus Nature Reserve), 36—O. falsum (Turkey, Rize: Ardeşen), 37—O. littorale (Russia, Volgograd Area: Elton Lake), 38—O. riparium impar (Georgia, Tskhneti), 39—O. rivulare (Russia, Krasnodar Territory: Derbiy), 40—O. rugatum (Russia, North Ossetia-Alania: Zincar), 41—O. turcicum (Russia, Krasnodar Territory, Caucasus Nature Reserve). Scale bars: 0.1 mm.