Anillinus dohrni (Ehlers)

Sokolov, Igor M., Carlton, Christopher & Cornell, James F., 2004, Review of Anillinus, with Descriptions of 17 New Species and a Key to Soil and Litter Species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 58 (2), pp. 185-233 : 198-199

Anillinus dohrni (Ehlers)

(Map fig. 38)

Anillus dohrni Ehlers 1884:36 . Type female from ‘‘ Florida,’’ without precise locality, location of type unknown.

Anillinus dohrni (Ehlers) , Jeannel (1963 a: 76).

Type not examined. We have not studied this species and have been unable to determine the location of the type. According to the original description it is a smallsized Anillinus (length of type 1.50 mm). Microsculpture on the forebody and other taxonomically valuable features were not mentioned in the description, so a more precise interpretation of A. dohrni is not possible at present. Jeannel’s (1963 a) interpretation of the species was based on material identified by G. H. Horn from Clayton and other localities in Rabun County, Georgia. A single male of Anillinus ( ABL 2.66 mm) from near Tallahassee differs from both the original description of A. dohrni and from Jeannel’s dubious interpretation of the species. The Florida specimen differs in length from Ehlers’s species (original description), and in the shape of median lobe from Jeannel’s interpretation ( Jeannel 1963 a: Fig. 64, p. 75). These differences and the relatively great distance between Rabun County, Georgia (situated on the Tennessee border) and Tallahassee, Florida have led us to conclude that three different species are involved. The first is Ehler’s A. dohrni , the identity of which is unknown beyond the original description, the second is Jeannel’s concept of the species, which apparently was not based on type comparison, and the third is our specimen from Florida, described herein as A. kovariki Sokolov and Carlton.

Distribution. Known from ‘‘Florida’’ from holotype only ( Fig. 38).