Pella reuteri ASSING, 2008

Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lomechusini from the Palaearctic region, primarily from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2), pp. 243-262 : 254

Pella reuteri ASSING, 2008

( Figs 46–47 )

Material examined: Iraq: 1 ♂, Amedi env., 1200 m, V.2007, leg. Reuter (cFel) .

Comment: The original description of this species is based on two females from northern Iraq ( ASSING 2008b). The male sexual characters were previously unknown. Based on the above male, they are as follows: posterior margin of tergite VIII weakly concave in the middle; posterior margin of sternite VIII broadly convex; median lobe of aedeagus 0.72 mm long and shaped as in Figs 46–47 .

The male sexual characters are highly similar to those of P. ruficollis (GRIMM, 1845) , except for the slightly longer ventral process of the aedaegus.

Figures

Figs 46–64: Pella reuteri (46–47), P. lugens from Gansu (48–49), P. cooterorum from Qinghai (50–51, 54), Gansu (55), Yunnan: Dongchuan env. (52, 56), and Yunnan: Kunming env. (53, 57), P. jureceki from Gansu (58–60), and P. zhoui from Qinghai (61–64): median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (46–53, 58–59, 61–62); spermatheca (54–57, 60, 63–64). Scale bars: 0.2 mm.