Geostiba (Tropogastrosipalia) meschniggiana (BERNHAUER 1936))

Assing, V., 2009, A revision of Geostiba of the Western Palaearctic region. XIX. New species from Turkey and Iran and additional records, with an updated key and a catalogue of the species of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (2), pp. 1191-1246 : 1194

Geostiba (Tropogastrosipalia) meschniggiana (BERNHAUER 1936))

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Greece: 1 ex., Chelmos, IV.1936, leg. Pfeffer (NMP).

Geostiba meschniggiana is one of the few Greek representatives of the subgenus Tropogastrosipalia that occur in two separate mountain ranges, in this case the Aroania (including Chelmos) and the Panahaiko ranges ( ASSING 1999, 2000a).