Oedichirus melanurus EPPELSHEIM

Rougemont, Guillaume de, 2018, New species and records of African and Lemurian Oedichirus ERICHSON (Staphylinidae, Paederinae, Procirrina), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 447-460 : 451

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5778202
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5186840
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scientific name	Oedichirus melanurus EPPELSHEIM
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Oedichirus melanurus EPPELSHEIM View in CoL (Figs 5)

Oedichirus melanurus EPPELSHEIM 1885: 138 View in CoL

Oedichirus melanurus FAGEL 1970: 384 View in CoL

Oedichirus melanurus HERMAN 2010: 45 View in CoL

M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: 1♂: ETHIOPIA, Kaffa, 175 Km W Addis Abeba, Gibbie R., 1971 ♀ under leaves of evergreen bushes on river bank ♀ Oedichirus melanurus Epp. View in CoL det. 1985 G. de Rougemont [ CRO] ; 1♂ YEMEN, Jibla , in irrigated field, II.1985, G. de Rougemont ♀ Oedichirus melanurus Epp. View in CoL det. 1985 G. de Rougemont [ CRO] ; 2♀♀: YEMEN, Wadi Sharez , on river bank, III.1985, G. de Rougemont ♀ Oedichirus melanurus Epp. View in CoL det. 1985 G. de Rougemont [ CRO] ; 1♂: 41 Yemen Arab Republic, Prov. Abyan, 13 09’69"N 45 19’46"E, 50 km ne Aden, Wadi Barra , 7 km nnw Zinjibar, 50 m, 29.IV.1998, leg. A Bischof, J. Bittermann, M. Fibiger, H. Hacker, H. Pecks, H-P. Schreier ♀ Sammlung M. Schülke Berlin [ CSB] ; 1♀: 42 Yemen Arab Republic, Prov. Hadramaut, 14 47’44"N 49 15’16"E, 25 km nne Mukalla , Al Ain , 25 km nnw Ar Rayyan , 1.V.1998, leg. A. Bischof, J. Bittermann, M. Fibiger, H. Hacker, H. Pecks, H-P. Schreier ♀ Oedichirus cf. melanurus Epp. View in CoL det. M. Schülke 2010 ♀ Sammlung M. Schülke Berlin ♀ Oedichirus melanurus Epp. View in CoL det. 2015 G. de Rougemont ( CSB) GoogleMaps .

Habitus (of a ♀ from Yemen): Fig. 5h.

Male: sternite VIII: Fig. 5s8; aedoeagus: Fig. 5arl.

Female: sternite IX: Fig. 5vp.

The type of O. melanurus is a female from the Cape Verde Islands. The material listed above corresponds to the "undescribed species" from Abyssinia mentioned by FAGEL (1970, p. 386) in his discussion of O. melanurus . FAGEL subsequently affixed type labels to these Eritrean 1 * specimens, which remained undescribed; his hesitation to describe a new species was on account of the slightly greater size of the Eritrean specimens and the great distance separating the two localities. The species has since been recorded from other parts of Africa (HERMAN 2010: 45).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: O. melanurus is a Sahelian species that has spread widely from the Sahel to other African countries ( Tanzania, Namibia etc.). New to Ethiopia and to Arabia.