Cephennium pygmaeum SAULCY , 1870

Assing, Volker, 2021, On the Cephennium fauna of the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic Islands (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 891-931 : 922-923

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5039032

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7254473

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scientific name

Cephennium pygmaeum SAULCY , 1870
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Cephennium pygmaeum SAULCY, 1870 View in CoL ( Figs 54-56 View Figs 46-58 )

Material examined by C. Besuchet (unpubl.): C. pygaeum pygmaeum: SPAIN: 9♂♂, 9♀♀, Andalucía, Sevilla, Carmona env., " Hof Alamaja ", leg. Franz ( MHNG, NHMW) ; 2♂♂, 2♀♀, Sevilla env., "Cortijo de Maribanetz", leg. Franz ( NHMW) ; 1♂, Cordoba ( MNHNP) ; 1♀, Andalucía, Sierra de Cazorla , leg. Besuchet ( MHNG) .

C. pygmaeum algeciranum: SPAIN: 5♂♂, 6♀♀, Andalucía, Sevilla, Cinca de Pino , leg. Franz ( MHNG, NHMW) ; 5♂♂, 6♀♀, Andalucía, Sevilla, Los Palacios , leg. Besuchet ( MHNG) ; 1♀, Andalucía, Algeciras env., La Roca, leg. Franz ( NHMW) ; 1♂, 1♀, Algeciras , leg. Fran, Simon ( MNHNP, NHMW) ; 1♂, 3♀♀, Andalucía, Malaga, Montes de Malaga , leg. Besuchet ( MHNG) ,.

C. pygmaeum striolatum: PORTUGAL: 1♂, Serra do Gerês (MNHNP . SPAIN: 2♀♀, Andalucía, Sevilla, Venta del Alto , leg. Besuchet ( MHNG) ; 2♂♂, 1♀, " Cordone " ( MHNG) .

According to the original description of C. pygmaeum , which is based on an unspecified number of syntypes from "Sierra de Cordoba", this species is blind, of reddish colouration, and 0.5 mm long ( SAULCY 1870). REITTER (1882) described C. algeciranum based on an unspecified number of type specimens from "Algeciras". REITTER (1884) described C. striolatum from " Andalusien ". Cephennium algeciranum and C. striolatum were subsequently regarded as subspecies of C. pygmaeum (VÍT & BESUCHET 2004) . Besuchet (unpubl.) lists material of the three subspecies, partly with doubtful or unidentified locality data, but provided (practically identical) illustrations only for C. pygmaeum and C. algeciranum ( Figs 54-56 View Figs 46-58 ). This suggests that the aedeagi of the three taxa do not differ. Moreover, the localities of the material examined by Besuchet (see above) do not reveal clear distribution patterns. In consequence, the status of both C. algeciranum and C. striolatus appears highly doubtful.

MHNG

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

NHMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

MNHNP

Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Cephennium

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