Aleochara (Xenochara)

Assing, Volker & Schülke, Michael, 2019, The Staphylinidae of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (Coleoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (1), pp. 91-173 : 155

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scientific name	Aleochara (Xenochara)
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Aleochara (Xenochara) View in CoL fugax IABLOKOFF-KHNZORIAN,

1962

( Figs 19–21 View Figs 7–23 )

Aleochara fugax IABLOKOFF-KHNZORIAN, 1962: 112 View in CoL f.

Material examined: 1: “ Erevan, Dzhrvezh, ASSR.

24.5.48” (cKhn).

Comment: Aleochara fugax , whose original description is based on a holotype and one paratype from Armenia (Vedi, Vinogradov sandstone cave, 8.IV.1958), is listed as Aleochara incertae sedis in SCHÜLKE & SMETANA (2015). An examination of the above specimen from the Khnzorian collection, evidently not the holotype, revealed that A. fugax is highly similar and undoubtedly closely related to A. parvicornis FAUVEL, 1900 of the subgenus Xenochara . It very much resembles A. parvicornis in habitus, antennal morphology, coloration, dense punctation, and the derived chaetotaxy of tergite VIII, but is distinguished by less dense punctation of the whole body (particularly so on the abdominal tergites VI and VII) and by a more slender distal portion of the spermathecal capsule. Habitus, posterior margin of tergite VIII, and spermatheca of A. fugax are illustrated in Figs 19–21 View Figs 7–23 . For illustrations of A. parvicornis see ASSING (2009a).

The Armenian record of A. parvicornis by LIKOVSKÝ (1971) most likely refers to A. fugax .

References

ASSING, V. 2009 a: On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Aleochara species of the subgenera Xenochara MULSANT & REY and Rheochara MULSANT & REY (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). - Beitrage zur Entomologie, Keltern 59 (1): 33 - 101. - https: // www. contributions-to-entomology. org / article / view / 1741 / 1740.

IABLOKOFF-KHNZORIAN, S. M. 1962: Novye vidy zhestkokrylykh iz Zakavkazya. New species of Coleoptera from Transcaucasus (Insecta-Coleoptera). - Zoologichesky Sbornik Zoologichesky Institut, Akademii Nauk Armyanskoy SSR 12: 99 - 124.

LIKOVSKY, Z. 1971: Einige west- und mittelasiatische Aleochara - Arten (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). - Acta Faunistica Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 14 (161): 93 - 100.

SCHULKE, M. & SMETANA, A. 2015: Staphylinidae, pp. 304 - 1134. - In: LOBL, I. & LOBL, D. (eds), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. New updated Edition. Volume 2. Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Revised and updated edition. - Brill, Leiden: xxvi + 1702 pp.

Figures

Figs 7–23:Omalium kociani (7–10), Proteinus baculatus (11–14), Bryaxis armeniacus (15, 17), B. meghruicus (16, 18), Aleochara fugax (19–21), and Atheta meghruica (22–23): (median lobe of) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (7–8, 13–16); female accessory sclerites (9); spermatheca (10, 21); habitus (11, 19, 22); thorax in ventral view (12); male antennomeres I–III (17–18); posterior margin of female sternite VIII (20); forebody (23). Scale bars: 11, 19, 22: 1.0 mm; 12, 23: 0.5 mm; 7–10, 13–16, 20–21: 0.1 mm; 17–18: without scale.