Lathrobium flavipes HOCHHUTH 1851

Assing, V., 2008, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Paederinae and Xantholinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2), pp. 1237-1294 : 1270

Lathrobium flavipes HOCHHUTH 1851

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Russia: 9 exs., Tambovskaya oblast , Rasskasovo, 52°40'N, 41°49'E, light source, 28.VII.1987, leg. Pütz (cPüt, cAss) ; 7 exs., same data, but 30.VII.1987 (cPüt, cAss) .

C o m m e n t: The coloration of the elytra is remarkably variable in this species, ranging from distinctly bicoloured, with the anterior 2/3 black and the posterior 1/3 reddishyellow, to uniformly black (with transitional conditions). In the bicoloured specimens, the legs are reddish, whereas in dark-coloured beetles they are blackish-brown. The above specimens represent the first records from the Russian Central European territory ( SMETANA 2004).