Ocypus (Pseudocypus) pammenes, Published, 2007

Published, First, 2007, Contributions to the knowledge of the “ Staphylinus-complex ” (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part XX. The genus Ocypus Leach, 1819, subgenus Pseudocypus Mulsant & Rey, 1876. Section 1, Zootaxa 1421, pp. 1-72 : 37-38

Ocypus (Pseudocypus) pammenes sp. nov.

( Figs. 147–150)

Type material. Holotype (male): CHINA: Sichuan: “CHINA: Sichuan 53 km NW Lixian 2750–3000 m VII.2001 leg. S. Murzin ” ( MSC).

Diagnosis. Ocypus pammenes shares all character states with O. elpenor and differs from it mainly by the differently shaped aedoeagus.

Description. In all character states quite similar to O. elpenor and different only by the differently shaped aedoeagus and sternite 9 of male genital segment.

Male. Genital segment with sternite 9 of different shape, with apical margin only slightly emarginate ( Fig. 147). Tergite 10 as in Fig. 148. Aedoeagus smaller, shaped as in Figs. 149, 150; median lobe slightly asymmetrical, apical portion narrowed into sharp apex; paramere markedly elongate, situated on median lobe asymmetrically, middle portion subparallelsided, apical portion with broadly rounded apex ( Figs. 149, 150), distinctly not reaching apex of median lobe; sensory peg setae on underside of paramere arranged along apical margin of paramere and extended markedly posteriad along right lateral margin; apical setae situated as in Fig. 150.

Female. Unknown.

Length 16. 0 mm.

Bionomics. Nothing is known about the collecting circumstances of the holotype.

Geographical distribution. Ocypus pammenes is at present known only from the type locality in Sichuan .

Recognition and comments. Ocypus pammenes may be positively distinguished from O. elpenor only by the differently shaped aedoeagus ( Figs. 136, 153) and sternite 9 of the male genital segment ( Figs. 134, 147).

Ocypus pammenes apparently occurs at the type locality together with O. elpenor .

Etymology. The specific epithet is the name of Pammenes, - is m, a Greek rhetorician, instructor of Brutus, in apposition.