A revision of Geostiba of the West Palaearctic region. XXVI. New species and additional records, primarily from the Caucasus region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
Author
Assing, Volker
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Linzer biologische Beiträge
2018
2018-12-17
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10.5281/zenodo.3776388
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3776388
Geostiba
(
Sipalotricha
)
cingulata
(EPPELSHEIM, 1878)
(
Map 3
)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d:
Georgia
:
R
a c h a:
1♂
,
4♀♀
, E
Shovi
,
42°41'N
,
43°42'E
,
1720 m
,
28.
V
.2018
, leg.
Brachat
&
Meybohm
(cAss)
;
1♀
, E
Shovi
,
42°42'N
,
43°41'E
,
1570 m
,
28.
V
.2018
, leg.
Brachat
&
Meybohm
(cAss)
;
2♀♀
, W
Glola
,
42°42'N
,
43°36'E
,
1170 m
,
28.
V
.2018
, leg.
Brachat
&
Meybohm
(cAss)
;
1♀
,
Ghebi
,
42°45'N
,
43°32'E
,
1310 m
,
29.
V
.2018
, leg.
Brachat
&
Meybohm
(cAss)
.
C o m m e n t: Unlike
G. manca
,
G. cingulata
is rather widespread and not uncommon in
Georgia
and
Azerbaijan
(
Map 3
).
Based on the presence of a small tubercle on the male tergite VII, the species was previously attributed to the subgenus
Chondridiosipalia
SCHEERPELTZ, 1951. Other characters, however, suggest that it is more closely allied to geographically close species of the subgenus
Sipalotricha
, suggesting that the presence of a tubercle on the male tergite VII is an autapomorphy rather than a synapomorphy shared with
Geostiba
leonhardi
(BERNHAUER, 1908) from
Italy
, the
type
species of
Chondridiosipalia
. This conclusion is also supported by the observation that there is no other species of
Chondridiosipalia
in the West Palaearctic east of
Italy
.