Sunius calatravae, Assing & A, 2008

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 : 81-82

4.44. Sunius calatravae nov.sp. ( Figs. 97-99 , Map 15)

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype 3: E: "Pozuelo de Calatrava ( Espagne) / Hypomedon seminiger / Coll. P. Griveau MHNG - 2007 / Holotypus 3 Sunius calatravae sp. n. det. V. Assing 2007" (MHNG). Paratypes: 333, 3♀♀: same data as holotype (MHNG, cAss).

D e s c r i p t i o n: In external morphology and coloration similar to S. behnei , but somewhat smaller (2.2-2.5 mm) and more slender. Additionally distinguished as follows:

Head relatively slender, 1.10-1.15 times as long as wide. Pronotum approximately 1.1 times as long as wide and 0.95 times as wide as head. Elytra 0.75 times as long and approximately as wide as pronotum.

3: sternite VII with weakly concave posterior margin; sternite VIII with apically rounded and relatively deep posterior excision, otherwise unmodified ( Fig. 99 ); aedeagus shaped as in Figs 97-98 , internal sac without sclerotised structures.

E t y m o l o g y: Thename(noun, genitive) is derived from Calatrava, a knighthood founded in the 12th century and part of the names of several places in the area where the type locality is situated.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The species ist distinguished from other small-sized, brachypterous and pale-coloured congeners occurring in southern Spain ( S. nevadensis , S. simoni , S. cordobanus , S. confusus , S. segurae , S. cazorlae , S. behnei ) especially by the shape of the aedeagus, from most of them also by the absence of sclerotised internal structures, as well as by the morphology and chaetotaxy of the male sternite VIII.

D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d b i o n o m i c s: ThetypelocalityissituatedinCiudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, southern Spain (Map 15). Bionomic data are not available.

Figures

Figs 97-102: Sunius calatravae nov.sp. (97-99) and S. cordobanus nov.sp. (100-102): (97-98, 100- 101) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view; (99, 102) male sternite VIII. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.