Amauronyx askifouicus BRACHAT, 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 : 282

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5911544

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7CE4D2AD-8F1E-408A-9112-5301AC6CC6AE

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Amauronyx askifouicus BRACHAT
status

sp. nov.

Amauronyx askifouicus BRACHAT View in CoL spec. nov.

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Type material: Holotype ♂: “GR – Crete [41], Askifou Asigonia , 35°14'14"N, 24°14'11"E, 740 m, soil washing, 23.III.2018, V. Assing / Amauronyx askifouicus spec. nov. ♂, det. Brachat 2.2019 / Holotypus” ( cBra) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀: same data as holotype (cBra).

Etymology: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from the name of the plateau where the type locality is situated.

Description: External characters as in A. occidens ; distinguished only by the male sexual characters:

♂: pro- and mesotrochanter with fine, metatrochanter with short oblong carina; aedeagus 0.30 mm long; internal sac with a broad, flat, and laterally triangular sclerite and with a long and slender angled structure; parameres apically with four setae.

Comparative notes: Amauronyx askifouicus is distinguished from other Cretan representatives of the genus by the distinctive modifications of the male trochanters and by the internal structures of the aedeagus.

Distribution and natural history: This species is probably locally endemic to the environs of the type locality in West Crete. The specimens were found by washing soil from a rocky north slope with old Quercus ilex at an altitude of 740 m.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Amauronyx

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