Lathrobium castaneipenne KOLENATI 1846

Assing, V., 2009, New species and additional records of Lathrobium and Tetartopeus from the Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (2), pp. 1269-1283 : 1270-1271

Lathrobium castaneipenne KOLENATI 1846 ( Figs 7-8 )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Austria:13, Burgenland, Weiden am See , flood debris, 7.IV.1991, leg. Sprick (cAss) ; 13, Steiermark, Bezirk Feldbach , Reitther-Teiche, 14.III.1998, leg. Holzer (cAss). Slovakia: 13, Malé Trakany, 13.V.2001, leg. Hlaváč (cAss). Hungary: 6 exs., Budapest, leg. Fodor ( SDEI, cAss). Slovenia: 13, Police, Gor. Radgona, 7.III.1998, leg. Drovenik (cAss) .

C o m m e n t: According to SMETANA (2004), this rare species is distributed from France and Scandinavia to the Caucasus region and Iran; remarkably, he does not indi- cate it from the Iberian Peninsula, although the type locality is " Iberia " ( KOLENATI 1846). Lathrobium castaneipenne has been confounded with a similar species described in the following section, based on material from Georgia. Therefore, at least all the previous records from the Caucasus region, Turkey, and Iran require revision; in Turkey, the species has been recorded only from Trabzon ( FAUVEL 1873). The specimen was looked for at the IRSNB. Only a female of uncertain identity was found in the Fauvel collection. However, this specimen has three different localities labels attached to the pin, a common phenomenon with Fauvel material: "Caucase Leder / Trépizonde [= Trabzon] / Caucase Chaudoir"; it is uncertain, which of these labels refers to the specimen. Therefore, L. castaneipenne should be deleted from the list of Turkish Staphylinidae .

The aedeagus and the male sternite VIII of L. castaneipenne are illustrated in Figs 7-8 .

Figures

Figs 1-8: Lathrobium permutatum nov.sp. (1-6) and L. castaneipenne KOLENATI (7-8): (1) forebody; (2, 7) aedeagus in lateral view; (3) male sternite VII; (4, 8) male sternite VIII; (5, 6) female sternite VIII. Scale bars: 1, 3-6, 8: 1.0 mm; 2, 7: 0.5 mm.