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Lesteva plagiata Sharp 1889

Description

Lesteva plagiata Sharp, 1889

Figs 5, 13, 15, 19–20; Map 8.

Lesteva plagiata Sharp, 1889: 472 (type locality: Japan, Honshu, Yokohama, Oyayama, Miyanoshita); Shavrin, Gildenkov, 2009: 122. Other references see in Watanabe [1990] and Herman [2001]. TYPE MATERIAL. Lectotype (here designated) of Lesteva plagiata Sharp, 1889 ♂: ‘ Lesteva plag- | iata. Type | D.S. | Japan.Lewis’ <handwritten on card with beetle, in black India ink>, ‘Type’ <round card with red frame, printed>, ‘ Japan. [underlined by yellow] | G. Lewis.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Sharp Coll. | 1905–313.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ LECTOTYPE | Lesteva | plagiata Sharp, 1889 | Shavrin A.V. des. 2019’ <red rectangular label, printed> (BMNH). Paralectotypes: 2 ♂♂ [Specimens glued on the same square card]: ‘ Lesteva plag- | iata. D.S. | Japan.Lewis’ <handwritten on card with beetles, in black India ink>, ‘ Japan. [underlined by yellow] | G. Lewis.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Sharp Coll. | 1905–313.’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH); 2 ♀♀: ‘ Japan. [underlined by yellow] | G. Lewis.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Sharp Coll. | 1905–313.’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘ Japan. [underlined by yellow] | G. Lewis.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Miyanoshita. | 24.IV.-3.V.80.’ <rectangular label printed> (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘ Japan. [underlined by yellow] | G. Lewis. | 1910–320.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Nagasaki. | 22.V.- 3.VI.[18]81’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH); 1 ♂: ‘ Japan. [underlined by yellow] | G. Lewis. | 1910–320. <printed>, ‘Yokohama. | 20.III.-14.IV.80.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | plagiata’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH).

MATERIAL. 1 ♂: Saratovskaya River near Tyatina River, 21– 24.08.2014, Yu.N. Sundukov leg. (CS); 3 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀: environs of Saratovskiy kordon,2– 4.07.2014, Yu.N.Sundukov leg.(CS, MSPU); 1 ♂: environs of Saratovskiy kordon, lower flow of Saratovskaya River, 44°15´57´´N 146°06´23´´E, 2– 4.07.2014, Yu.N. Sundukov, L.A. Sundukova leg. (MSPU); 1 ♀: environs of Tretyakovo, valley of Valentina Stream, 24.05.2011, A.V. Matalin leg. (MSPU); 1 ♂, 7 ♀♀: Tretyakovo, in litter near stream, 18– 21.07.1990, S.A. Kurbatov leg. (CS, RCPQ); 1 ♀: Mendeleevo, 04.07.1991, S.A. Kurbatov leg. (ZMM).

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL. RUSSIA: 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀: Maritime Province:‘ Seitengraben des Perwaja Rietschka’,‘ Tales, nördl Wladiwostok’, ‘ H. Frieb leg. 1918–1920’, ‘ plagiata Shp’, ‘ex coll. Scheerpeltze’ (NHMW); JAPAN: 1 ♀: ‘ Mt. Daisien Prov. HOKI by M. Suzuki 12–8–1917.’ (ZIN); 2 ♂♂: ‘ Kioto Japon’ (IRSNB); 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀: ‘ Japan | Kobe | Mayasan | 11.v. [19]33 | J.E.A. LEWIS’ (BMNH); 1 ♂: ‘ JAPAN Kobe’, ‘ Mayasan 27.iv. [19]30’, ‘ Lesteva | plagiata | Shp’, ‘ M.Cameron. Bequest B.M. 1955–147.’ (BMNH).

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Maritime Province, southern Kurile Islands (Kunashir: Map 8). — Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu). The record of L. plagiata for South Korea by Cho et al. [2002] is a misidentification of L. miyabi Watanabe, 1990 [Kim, Ahn, 2011].

BIONOMICS. Specimens were collected on stone banks of streams and rivers (Figs 13, 15).

REMARKS. In the original description [Sharp, 1889], the number of syntypes was not specified. The first author designates a lectotype to fix the identity of the name. Lesteva plagiata is a relatively variable species both in habitus and in the shape of the apical portions of the aedeagus and parameres. It is similar to L. kojohamana Watanabe, 1990, described from Iburi, Hokkaido, and a potential synonym of L. plagiata. A revision of type material would be required to confirm this. Habitus as in Fig. 5. The aedeagus of L. plagiata in two projections is illustrated in Figs 19–20. The species is recorded from Kunashir Island for the first time.

Notes

Published as part of Shavrin, A. V. & Makarov, K. V., 2019, Contribution to the knowledge of the fauna of rove beetles of the subfamily Omaliinae MacLeay, 1825 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of Kunashir Island, Kurile Islands, pp. 36-53 in Russian Entomological Journal 28 (1) on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.28.1.06, http://zenodo.org/record/10978349

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH , CS , CS, MSPU , CS, RCPQ , IRSNB , MSPU , NHMW , ZIN , ZMM
Event date
1917-08-12 , 1990-07-21 , 1991-04-07 , 2011-05-24 , 2014-07-04 , 2014-08-24
Verbatim event date
1917-08-12 , 1990-07-21 , 1991-04-07 , 2011-05-24 , 2014-07-04 , 2014-08-24
Scientific name authorship
Sharp
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Lesteva
Species
plagiata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lesteva plagiata Sharp, 1889 sec. Shavrin & Makarov, 2019

References

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  • Watanabe Y. 1990. A taxonomic study on the subfamily Omaliinae from Japan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) // Memoirs of the Tokyo University of Agriculture. Vol. 31. P. 59 - 391.
  • Herman L. H. 2001. Catalogue of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millenium // Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. 265. Nos 1 - 7. P. 1 - 4218.
  • Cho Y. B., Lafer G. Sh., Paik J. C., Park, J. K. 2002. Contribution to the staphylinid fauna (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of Korea // Kore- an Journal of Soil Zoology. Vol. 7. Nos 1 - 2. P. 35 - 44.
  • Kim T. - K., Ahn K. - J. 2011. Taxonomy of Korean Lesteva with a decription of a new species (Coleotera: Staphylinidae) // Florida Entomologist. Vol. 94. No. 1. P. 28 - 34.