On the Staphylinidae of the Greek island Karpathos (Insecta Coleoptera)
Author
Assing, Volker
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Linzer biologische Beiträge
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5416181
0253-116X
5416181
Dinusa cretica
ASSING
,
2013
C o m m e n t:
Dinusa cretica
is a rare myrmecophile associated with ants of the genus
Messor
FOREL, 1890. It was previously hypothesized to be endemic to
Crete
(
ASSING 2013a
,
2015a
). The
two specimens
(a male and a female) listed in
Tab. 1
are distinguished from material known from
Crete
by somewhat darker coloration of the pronotum and the elytra, as well as by a slightly larger crista apicalis of the aedeagus, but otherwise no significant differences were found suggesting that they should represent a distinct species. In view of the long time of separation of
Crete
and Karpathos (see introduction), it would seem likely that the presence of
D. cretica
in Karpathos is the result of a more recent colonization by flight.
Based on the different shape of the spermatheca, the specimens from Karpathos are not conspecific with the unnamed
Dinusa
sp.
from Rhodos (see
ASSING 2013b
).