Cephennium catax nov.sp. (Figs 7, 28-29, 40-41)

Type material: Holotype ♂: " GR-Thessalia, Bez. Larissa, Nordhänge Ossa, 27.4.- 8.5.82, leg. Brachat / Holotypus ♂ Cephennium catax sp. n. det. V. Assing 2020" (cAss) . Paratypes: 10♂♂, 3♀♀: same data as holotype (cAss); 1♂: " Griechenland, Region Thessalien, Provinz Larissa, Mont Ossa 1200 m, 6.- 16.6.1986, leg. I. Wolf " (cAss) .

Etymology: The specific epithet (Latin, adjective: lame, with a limp) alludes to the apically distinctly bent male metatibia.

Description: Body length 1.2-1.3 mm; antenna approximately 0.6 mm long. Habitus (Fig. 7) rather slender. Body reddish to reddish-brown.

Eyes composed of approximately ten ommatidia. Antenna with antennomeres X barely 1.5 times as broad as long and XI approximately twice as long as broad.

Pronotum approximately 1.15 times as broad as long, moderately convex in crosssection; punctation denser and as fine as, or slightly finer than that of elytra.

Elytra broader than pronotum, moderately convex in cross-section, anteriorly each with a small transversely oval impression with tomentose whitish pubescence; punctation fine.

♂: protibia straight, in apical two-fifths somewhat flattened, weakly excavate, and with conspicuously dense and long pubescence on inner face; mesotibia with similar modifications in apical third, but pubescence less dense and slightly shorter; metatibia (Fig. 41) somewhat flattened on inner face in apical third and apically strongly bent; metaventrite extensively, shallowly impressed; aedeagus (Figs 28-29, 40) 0.27-0.28 mm long; median lobe apically conspicuously acute in ventral view; internal structures weakly sclerotized; parameres slender, weakly curved, nearly reaching apex of median lobe, and apically with rather long seta.

Comparative notes: Cephennium catax is distinguished from all other congeners recorded from Greece by the conspicuous modifications of the male pro- and metatibiae, as well as by the structure of the aedeagus.

Distribution and natural history: The type specimens were collected in the northern slopes of Ossa Oros, Thessalia, Greece. One of the paratypes was found at an altitude of 1200 m.