Sunius confusus ( COIFFAIT 1970)

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 : 84

4.46. Sunius confusus ( COIFFAIT 1970) ( Map 17 )

Hypomedon simoni : COIFFAIT 1961: 38 f.; misidentification.

Hypomedon confusum [sic] COIFFAIT 1970: 22.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Spain: A n d a l u c í a: 7 exs., Sierra de las Nieves, 36°41'N, 05°01'W, 1700 m, near snow fields, 22.& 26.II.2000, leg. Lompe & Meybohm (cAss).

C o m m e n t: Hypomedon confusus was – erroneously – made available as "n. nv.", i. e. a replacement name, for COIFFAIT´ s (1961) misidentified Sunius simoni . The above material was collected at the type locality and is in perfect agreement with the illustrations provided by COIFFAIT (1961, 1984), so that it is doubtlessly conspecific with the type material.

D i a g n o s i s: Externalappearancesimilartothatof S. simoni , but body smaller and distinctly more slender; head with less dense coarse puncturation; pronotal puncturation coarser.

3: sternite VII not distinctly modified; sternite VIII with distinctive, obliquely projecting median process; aedeagus of distinctive morphology, for illustrations see COIFFAIT (1961, 1984).

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 known distribution is confined to the Sierra de las Nieves in Andalucía ( Map 17 ). The examined specimens were collected near snowfields at an altitude of 1700 m in February.

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Map 17: Distributions of species of the S. seminiger group in southern Spain and northern Morocco: Sunius simoni (QUEDENFELDT) (filled circles), S. confusus (COIFFAIT) (open circle), and S. cordobanus nov.sp. (square).