Pseudomedon kazakhstanicus ASSING 2008, 1258

Assing, V., 2009, On the Pseudomedon species of the Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (2), pp. 1175-1189 : 1186

Pseudomedon kazakhstanicus ASSING 2008 (Fig. 8)

Pseudomedon kazakhstanicus ASSING 2008b: 1258 f.

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 Kazakhstan: 5 exs., Aidarly , Ile river, 12.IV.1984, leg. Kastcheev ( MNHUB) ; 3 exs., same data, but 6.I.1984 (cAss) ; 1 ex., same data, but 15.IV.1983 ( MNHUB) ; 2 exs., same data, but 20.IV.1985 ( MNHUB) ; 3 exs., same data, but 22.IV.1984 ( MNHUB) ; 1 ex., Aksu-Djabagly , Kshi-Kaindy, 17.V.1985, leg. Kastcheev ( MNHUB) .

C o m m e n t: This recently described species has become known only from several localities in Kazakhstan ( ASSING 2008b). The length of the aedeagus of P. kazakhstanicus and P. afghanicus is 0.47 mm, not 0.33 mm as indicated in the original descriptions of these species.