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Aleochara (Xenochara) ignipennis Fauvel 1900

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Description

Aleochara (Xenochara) ignipennis FAUVEL, 1900 (Figs 179-181)

Aleochara ignipennis FAUVEL, 1900: 247 f.

Type material examined:

Holotype ♀: " Persia settent. / ignipennis Fvl / R.I.Sc. N.B. 17.479, Aleochara, Coll. et det. A. Fauvel / Type / Holotypus ♀ Aleochara ignipennis Fauvel, rev. V. Assing 2009 / Aleochara ignipennis Fauvel, det. V. Assing 2009" (IRSNB).

Additional material examined:

Turkey: 1 ♂, Adana, NW Pozanti, Çaykavak geçidi, 1600 m, 22.VII.1998, leg. Bayer (cAss).

Comment:

The original description is based on a single specimen from "Perse septentrionale" (FAUVEL 1900). An examination of the holotype revealed that it is a female. The male listed as additional material above has a distinctly sparser punctation of the abdomen and darker blackish-brown legs and antennae (reddish in the holotype), but since no additional differences were found, they are attributed to intra- rather than interspecific variation. Males from Iran are needed to confirm that both specimens are conspecific. The aedeagus of the male from Turkey and the abdomen of the holotype are illustrated in Figs 179-181.

The species has been reported from Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey (ASSING 2007b).

Notes

Published as part of Assing, V., 2009, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Aleochara species of the subgenera Xenochara M & R and Rheochara M & R (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 33-101 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1) on pages 84-85

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IRSNB
Event date
1998-07-22
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Aleochara
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fauvel
Species
ignipennis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1998-07-22
Taxonomic concept label
Aleochara (Xenochara) ignipennis Fauvel, 1900 sec. Assing, 2009

References

  • FAUVEL, A. 1900: Staphylinides palearctiques nouveaux. - Revue d'Entomologie 19: 218 - 253.
  • ASSING, V. 2007 b: New species and additional records of Staphylinidae from Turkey V (Coleoptera). - Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie) 700: 1 - 64.