Cephennium meybohmi ASSING, 2019

Assing, Volker, Brachat, Volker & Meybohm, Heinrich, 2019, Monograph of the Staphylinidae of Crete (Greece). Part II. Descriptions of new species (Insecta: Coleoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (2), pp. 239-289 : 268

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.21248/contrib.entomol.69.2.239-289

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5911510

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BDCAA375-E045-47F7-AC38-6812249B9A7C

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Cephennium meybohmi ASSING
status

sp. nov.

Cephennium meybohmi ASSING View in CoL spec. nov.

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( Figs 109–110 View Figs 100–113 )

Type material: Holotype ♂: “ N35°23'54 E23°54'38, GR Westkreta 440 m, Karanos W 31.3.2019, Brachat & Meybohm (14) / Holotypus ♂ Cephennium meybohmi sp. n. det. V. Assing 2019” ( cAss). GoogleMaps

Etymology: This species is dedicated to Heinrich Meybohm, specialist of Scydmaeninae , who discovered the holotype and granted permission to retain it.

Description: Body length 0.95 mm; width of pronotum 0.38 mm; width of elytra 0.40 mm. Coloration: body pale-reddish; legs, antennae, and maxillary palpi yellow. Eyes reduced, composed of three ommatidia without pigmentation. Punctation of head and elytra extremely fine, barely noticeable at a magnification of 150 x, that of pronotum visible, but very fine in anterior three-fourths, more distinct only in posterior fourth. Tibiae moderately club-shaped, dilated in distal three-fifths. Other external characters as in C. selinonum .

♂: aedeagus 0.24 mm long; ventral process apically convex in ventral view, distinctly curved and acute in lateral view; internal sac with two pairs of large sclerotized spines and with numerous additional smaller spines ( Figs 109–110 View Figs 100–113 ).

Comparative notes: Cephennium meybohmi is reliably distinguished from other species of the C. arcuatum group by the shape and internal structures of the aedeagus. It differs from C. selinonum , the geographically closest congener of the C. arcuatum group, by less distinct punctation in the anterior three-fourths of the pronotum, the shape of the larger aedeagus in lateral view, and particularly by the presence of numerous smaller spines in the internal sac of the aedeagus.

Distribution and natural history: The type locality is situated near Karanos to the southwest of Chania. The holotype was collected by washing soil from a stream valley with Platanus orientalis at an altitude of 440 m.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Cephennium

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