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Scydmoraphes ziegleri MEYBOHM 2008

Description

On Scydmoraphes ziegleri MEYBOHM, 2008

The original description is based on a single male collected from under a deeply embedded stone. In the meantime, 16 additional specimens, five males and eleven females, have been found, all of them using the soil-washing technique. All the females have strongly reduced eyes composed of approximately four ommatidia. The three males from the region to the west of Agios Nikolaos have large and strongly projecting eyes, as well as fully developed hind wings, whereas the three males from Zakros in the extreme east of Crete are wingless and have strongly reduced eyes (like the females). In addition, the nine specimens from the eastern tip of Crete are distinguished from the six specimens from the environs of Agios Nikolaos by more transverse antennomeres VIII, IX, and X, as well as by more strongly reduced eyes in the females. However, the two females from Lastros are intermediate in this respect and differences in the male genitalia were not found, so that all the material is attributed to S. ziegleri.

Notes

Published as part of Assing, Volker, Brachat, Volker & Meybohm, Heinrich, 2019, Monograph of the Staphylinidae of Crete (Greece). Part II. Descriptions of new species (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 239-289 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (2) on page 273, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.69.2.239-289, http://zenodo.org/record/4755240

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Biodiversity

Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Scydmoraphes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
MEYBOHM
Species
ziegleri
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Scydmoraphes ziegleri MEYBOHM, 2008 sec. Assing, Brachat & Meybohm, 2019