Aleochara (Xenochara) ignipennis FAUVEL , 1900

Assing, V., 2009, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Aleochara species of the subgenera Xenochara M & R and Rheochara M & R (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1), pp. 33-101 : 84-85

Aleochara (Xenochara) ignipennis FAUVEL, 1900 ( Figs 179-181)

Aleochara ignipennis FAUVEL, 1900: 247 f.

Type material examined:

Holotype ♀: " Persia settent. / ignipennis Fvl / R.I.Sc. N.B. 17.479, Aleochara, Coll. et det. A. Fauvel / Type / Holotypus ♀ Aleochara ignipennis Fauvel , rev. V. Assing 2009 / Aleochara ignipennis Fauvel , det. V. Assing 2009" ( IRSNB).

Additional material examined:

Turkey: 1 ♂, Adana, NW Pozanti, Çaykavak geçidi, 1600 m, 22.VII.1998, leg. Bayer (cAss) .

Comment:

The original description is based on a single specimen from "Perse septentrionale" ( FAUVEL 1900). An examination of the holotype revealed that it is a female. The male listed as additional material above has a distinctly sparser punctation of the abdomen and darker blackish-brown legs and antennae (reddish in the holotype), but since no additional differences were found, they are attributed to intra- rather than interspecific variation. Males from Iran are needed to confirm that both specimens are conspecific. The aedeagus of the male from Turkey and the abdomen of the holotype are illustrated in Figs 179-181 .

The species has been reported from Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey ( ASSING 2007b).