Anaulacaspis pamphylica ( FAGEL, 1969 )

Assing, Volker, 2016, Revision of the Anaulacaspis species of the Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (2), pp. 201-255 : 240-241

Anaulacaspis pamphylica ( FAGEL, 1969)

( Figs 142–145 , Map 5 )

Melagria pamphylica FAGEL, 1969: 21 f.

Type material examined: Holotype ♂: “ Anatolie mér., Alanya : Dim Irmak , VI.1968. G Fagel / G. Fagel det., pamphylica n. sp. / Type / Anaulacaspis pamphylica (Fagel) , det. V. Assing 2016” ( IRSNB) . Paratypes: 7 exs.: same data as holotype ( IRSNB) .

Comment: The original description is based on a male holotype and 14 paratypes from “villayet d’Antalya, Alanya, sur plages du Dim Irmak” ( FAGEL 1969).

Redescription: Body length 2.2–2.6 mm; length of forebody 1.1–1.2 mm. Coloration: body blackish-brown to black with the posterior margin of the elytra sharply pale-yellow; legs dark-yellowish to pale-brown; antennae dark-brown with the basal two antennomeres paler.

Head distinctly transverse, approximately 1.2 times as broad as long; punctation very fine and sparse; interstices without microsculpture and glossy; sexual dimorphism weakly pronounced. Eyes distinctly longer than postocular region in dorsal view. Antenna 0.8–0.9 mm long; antennomeres IV distinctly oblong, V approximately as broad as long, VI–X of gradually increasing width and increasingly transverse, X approximately 1.5 times as broad as long.

Pronotum approximately 1.5 times as broad as long and as broad as head, with pronounced sexual dimorphism.

Elytra slightly longer than pronotum; punctation fine and dense. Hind wings fully developed.

Abdomen narrower than elytra; punctation dense and distinct; posterior margin of tergite VIII ( Fig. 142 ) weakly convex in the middle and with a row of unmodified marginal setae.

♂: head depressed or (mostly) shallowly impressed in postero-median portion; pronotum with extensive and rather deep median impression and with distinct, sometimes somewhat granulose punctation; sternite VIII ( Fig. 143 ) with evenly convex posterior margin; median lobe of aedeagus ( Figs 144–145 ) approximately 0.38 mm long, with pronounced, long and distinctly concave crista apicalis (lateral view).

♀: head not depressed or impressed in postero-median portion; pronotum without median impression and with extremely fine punctation.

Comparative notes: This species is readily distinguished from the species allied to A. nigra by the sharply yellow posterior margin of the elytra, the pronounced modifications of the male pronotum, and by the much larger median lobe of the aedeagus with a crista apicalis of distinctive shape.

Distribution: Anaulacaspis pamphylica is currently known only from the type locality in the east of Antalya province, South Anatolia ( Map 5 ).

Figures

Map 5: Distributions of Anaulacaspis flavomarginata (white diamonds), A. pamphylica (black star), A. inexpectata (white circles), and A. persica (black circles) in the West Palaearctic and Middle Asia, based on revised records.

Figs 136–163: Anaulacaspsis excisa (136–141), A. pamphylica (142–145), A. flavomarginata (146–150), A. laevigata (151–158; 153–154: lectotype; 155: Pelopónnisos; 156: Lesbos),and A. iberica (159–163): maletergite VIII(136, 142,146, 151); male sternite VIII (137, 143, 147, 152); median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (138–139, 144–145, 148–149, 153–156, 159–162); female sternite VIII (141, 150, 158);female tergite VIII (140); apex of ventral process of aedeagus in lateral view (157, 163). Scalebars:0.1 mm.