Lithocharis vilis KRAATZ 1859

Assing, V., 2008, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Paederinae and Xantholinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2), pp. 1237-1294 : 1248

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scientific name	Lithocharis vilis KRAATZ 1859
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Lithocharis vilis KRAATZ 1859 View in CoL

Lithocharis vilis KRAATZ 1859: 159 View in CoL .

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Lectotype, present designation: " / 91 / Ceylon /

Lithocharis vilis Krtz. / Syntypus / coll. Kraatz / coll. DEI Müncheberg / Lectotypus Lithocharis

vilis Kraatz, desig. V. Assing 2008 / Lithocharis vilis Kraatz , det. V. Assing 2008" (DEI).

Paralectotypes: 6 exs.: " Ceylon / Syntypus / coll. Kraatz / coll. DEI Müncheberg" ( DEI) ; 1:

" India orient. / Syntypus / coll. Kraatz / coll. DEI Müncheberg / Medonini gen. sp. det. V. Assing

2008" (DEI).

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: seeASSING (2000) and ASSING & SCHÜLKE (2006).

C o m m e n t: The original description is based on an unspecified number of syntypes from " Ceylan " and " India orientali" ( KRAATZ 1859). The type series in the Kraatz collection is composed of eight specimens, seven of them from Ceylon and one from " India orient." The latter is clearly not conspecific and probably not even congeneric with the specimens from Ceylon. A male from Ceylon is designated as the lectotype. It is in agreement with the interpretation of L. vilis of COIFFAIT (1984).