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Myrmoecia urartu

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Description

Myrmoecia urartu (IABLOKOFF-KHNZORIAN, 1962)

(Figs 1, 79, Map 1)

Zyras urartu IABLOKOFF-KHNZORIAN, 1962, 111 f.

Type material: Holotype: “ Erevan. 10.4.55, Nor-Aresh, N. N. Akramovski / Typus / Zyras urartu Khnj, Khnzorian det. / Holotype / Myrmoecia urartu (Iablokoff-Khnzorian), det. V. Assing 2018” (IZAY).

Additional material examined: Israel: 1, Sede Boqer range, 30°51'N, 34°46'E, 500 m, 24.II.2011, leg. Drees (cAss); 1, Upper Galilee, Biriya env., 32°59'N, 35°29'E, flight trap, 17.V.–4.VI.2007, leg. Buse (cFel); 1, same data, but without date (cFel); 1, Upper Galilee, Meron, 33°00'N, 35°26'E, flight trap, 5–25.VI.2007, leg. Buse (cFel). Jordan: 1, Ma’an, N Wadi Musa, 30°24'N, 35°30'E, 1670 m, 29.II.2015, leg. Meybohm (cAss). Iran: 1, Esfahan Province, 10 km E Zefreh, Mt. Marshenan, 32°56'N, 52°22'E, 2490 m, 16.V.2007, leg. Frisch & Serri (cAss).

Comment: The original description is based on a unique specimen from Armenia (IABLOKOFF-KHNZORIAN 1962). The holotype is a female and illustrated in Figs 1, 79. The species was originally assigned to Zyras STEPHENS, 1835 and subsequently moved to Myrmoecia by MARUYAMA (2006). The above records represent the first records since the original description and the first records from Israel, Jordan, and Iran. The currently known distribution is illustrated in Map 1.

Notes

Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2019, On the Lomechusini fauna of the Palaearctic and Oriental regions. XXVI. New species, a new synonymy, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 33-70 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.69.1.033-070, http://zenodo.org/record/5742766

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2007-05-16 , 2007-05-17
Verbatim event date
2007-05-16 , 2007-05-17/2011-02-24 , 2015-02-29
Scientific name authorship
Iablokoff-Khnzorian
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Myrmoecia
Species
urartu
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Myrmoecia urartu (Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1962) sec. Assing, 2019

References

  • IABLOKOFF-KHNZORIAN, S. M. 1962: Novye vidy zhestkokrylykh iz Zakavkazya. New species of Coleoptera from Transcaucasus (Insecta-Coleoptera). - Zoologichesky Sbornik Zoologichesky Institut, Akademii Nauk Armyanskoy SSR 12: 99 - 124.
  • MARUYAMA, M. 2006: Revision of the Palearctic species of the myrmecophilous genus Pella (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). - National Science Museum Monographs 32: 1 - 207.