Oxypoda (Deropoda) magnicollis FAUVEL 1878

(Figs 12-15)

Material examined: Algeria: 1 ex., Biskra, 24.I.1929, leg. Schatzmayr (FMNH); 2 exs., Biskra, El Kantara, 12.II.1929, leg. Schatzmayr (FMNH).

Comment: According to SMETANA, O. magnicollis has been reported from Greece, Spain, the Czech Republic, and North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco). The records from regions other than North Africa, however, have not been confirmed and should be considered highly doubtful.

This micropterous species is characterized by the combination of large eyes (in this respect similar to O. arabs FAUVEL 1904 and O. schatzmayri BERNHAUER 1936), the conspicuously large pronotum (distinctly broader and longer than the elytra), moderately pronounced lateral folds of the elytra, and absence of a palisade fringe at the posterior margin of the abdominal tergite VII, as well as by the morphology of the aedeagus (Figs 12-15). The crista apicalis is larger than in many other species of the subgenus. As in many other species of the subgenus, the ventral process is apically bifid in ventral view.