Aleochara (Xenochara) kaszabi LIKOVSKÝ , 1968

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 : 87

Aleochara (Xenochara) kaszabi LIKOVSKÝ, 1968 ( Figs 184-186)

Aleochara (Polychara) kaszabi LIKOVSKÝ, 1968: 164 f.

Type material examined:

Holotype ♂ [dissected prior to present study; aedeagus flattened, somewhat deformed]: " Mongolia, Central aimak, 126 km N v. Ulan-Baator, am Wege, Exp. Dr. Z. Kaszab, 1964 / Nr. 290, 9.VII.1964 / Holotypus 1966, Aleochara Kaszabi Likovsky [curator label] / Holotypus Aleochara ultima m., Zb. Likovský det. 1966 / Holotypus / Aleochara kaszabi Likovský , det. V. Assing 2009" ( HNHM).

Comment:

This species has never been recorded since its original description, which is based on a single holotype male from " Mongolia: Central aimak, 126 km N von Ulan-Baator" ( LIKOVSKY 1968). An examination of the holotype revealed that the aedeagus is deformed (probably squeezed in the course of microscopic preparation). In external characters, the general morphology of the aedeagus, in particular the shape of the ventral process and the internal structures ( Figs 184-186), A. kaszabi is highly similar to A. sanguinea and A. villosa MANNERHEIM, 1839 . It is separated from both species by the denser punctation of the elytra and the abdomen, as well as by the different shape of the apical internal structures of the aedeagus.