Sunius fernandezi HERNÁNDEZ & GARCÍA 1982

Assing, V. & A, North, 2008, A revision of the Sunius species of the Western Palaearctic region and Middle Asia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1), pp. 5-135 : 45

4.12. Sunius fernandezi HERNÁNDEZ & GARCÍA 1982 (Figs 24-26)

Sunius fernandezi HERNÁNDEZ & GARCÍA 1992: 152 ff.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Canary Islands: Tenerife: 8 exs., Adeje env., Barranco del Infierno , stream bank, litter of Salix canariensis, 9.IV.1992, leg. Assing (cAss) ; 1 ex., same data, but in gravel, leg. Zerche ( DEI) ; 1 ex., Barranco del Infierno , leg. Franz ( NHMW) ; 1 ex., Vilaflor , 26.III.1990, leg. Winkelmann-Klöck (cSch) .

C o m m e n t: The original description is based on a male holotype and a female paratype from "El Médano (Tenerife)" (HERNÁNDEZ & GARCÍA 1992).

D i a g n o s i s: External morphology as in S. palmi , but coloration paler: pronotum bright reddish; elytra yellowish. Elytra conspicuously long (Fig. 24).

3: sternite VII unmodified; sternite VIII with slightly denser pubescence in median area (Fig. 26); aedeagus larger than that of other Canarian congeners; ventral process longer than in S. palmi (Fig. 25).

D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d b i o n o m i c s: The species is currently known only from three localities in the south of Tenerife, the type locality (El Médano), the Barranco del Infierno near Adeje, and Vilaflor. The specimens from the Barranco del Infierno were sifted from the leaf litter near the bank of a stream.