Oxytelus leleupi ( Fagel, 1960 ), 2012

Makranczy, György, 2012, Nomenclatural changes removing secondary homonymy in the genus Oxytelus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 193-205 : 198

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5330036

publication LSID

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scientific name

Oxytelus leleupi ( Fagel, 1960 )
status

comb. nov.

Oxytelus leleupi ( Fagel, 1960) View in CoL comb. nov.

Paranisopsis leleupi Fagel, 1960: 43 View in CoL . Paroxytelopsis leleupi: HERMAN (1970: 406) . Illustrations. Head and pronotum: FAGEL (1960: 27, Fig. 31) and Fig. 1 View Figs 1–5. 1–2 here. Male terminalia: FAGEL (1960: 32, Fig. 39) and Fig. 2 View Figs 1–5. 1–2 here. Aedeagus: FAGEL (1960: 43, Fig. 67).

New record. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Oriental [Province], Yangambi [04°45′N 24°25′E], 6.vii.1960, aerial plankton net, leg. D. H. and A. C. Kistner, R. Banfill (1 spec., FMNH).

Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo ( FAGEL 1960).

Remarks. The images in the description seem to be not very accurate for the specimens studied, so another set of illustrations is presented here of the head and pronotum and of the male terminalia.

FAGEL G. 1960: Contribution a la connaissance des Staphylinidae LXVII. Le complexe des Anisopsis. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 36 (41): 1 - 51.

HERMAN L. H. 1970: Phylogeny and reclassification of the genera of the rove-beetle subfamily Oxytelinae of the World (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 142: 343 - 454.

Gallery Image

Figs 1–5. 1–2 – Oxytelus leleupi (Fagel, 1960), male: 1 – head and pronotum (scale = 0.2 mm); 2 – sternites VII and VIII (scale = 0.1 mm). 3 – O. luteus (Fagel, 1960), male, head and pronotum (scale = 0.2 mm). 4–5 – syntype of Anisopsis guineensis Bernhauer, 1932, female: 4 – head and pronotum (scale = 0.5 mm); 5 – antenna (scale = 0.3 mm).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Oxytelus