Sunius microphthalmus ( FRANZ 1979)

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 : 42

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scientific name	Sunius microphthalmus ( FRANZ 1979)
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4.9. Sunius microphthalmus ( FRANZ 1979) View in CoL (Figs 19-20)

Hypomedon microphthalmus FRANZ 1979: 68 View in CoL .

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Holotype 3: " Isla del Hierro, El Golfo, lg. H. Franz /

Sp 1364 [overleaf] / Kanarische Inseln leg. H. Franz / Hypomedon microphthalmus m. 3 det. H.

Franz / Holotypus / Sunius microphthalmus det. V. Assing 2007" (NHMW). Paratype ♀: " Isla del

Hierro, El Golfo, lg. H. Franz / Sp 1323 [overleaf] / 6 / 40 / Hypomedon microphthalmus m. ♀ det.

H. Franz / Paratypus / Sunius microphthalmus det. V. Assing 2007" (NHMW).

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Canary Islands: El Hierro: 1 ex., El Golfo, laurisilva [ Sp 1376] ( NHMW) ; 1 ex., same data, but Sp 1378 ( NHMW) ; 1 ex., same data, but Sp 1391 ( NHMW) ; 3 exs., same data, but Sp 1541 ( NHMW, cAss) ; 2 exs., same data, but Sp 1456 ( NHMW, cAss) ; 1 ex., same data, but Sp 1459 ( NHMW) ; 4 exs., same data, but Sp 1520 ( NHMW) ; 1 ex., same data, but Sp 1494 ( NHMW) ; 1 ex., El Brezzal, Sp 1305 (cAss) ; 1 ex., ESE Frontera, 27°44'N, 18°03'W, 850 m, laurisilva, sifted from deep leaf litter, 31.XII.1999, leg. Assing (cAss) GoogleMaps ; 2 exs., Pista del Derrabado , MSS trap, 29.VIII.2007, leg. Oromí & López (cOro, cAss) .

C o m m e n t: The original description is based on a holotype male from "El Golfo oberhalb der von Valverde nach Frontera führenden Strasse" and a female paratype from "El Golfo" ( FRANZ 1979).

D i a g n o s i s: 3.0- 3.7 mm. Whole body uniformly pale reddish. Head with shallow microsculpture. Eyes reduced to minute rudiments, approximately as large as antennomere IV in cross-section, without pigmentation. Abdominal tergite VII without palisade fringe.

3: sternite VII unmodified; sternite VIII similar to that of S. brevipennis , with somewhat denser pubescence in median area (Fig. 20); aedeagus as in Fig. 19.

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 endemic to El Hierro, Canary Islands. It has been collected by sifting deep soil and the soil under rotting laurel trunks.