Geomitopsis cretica Assing & Brachat & Meybohm 2019, spec. nov.
Description
Geomitopsis cretica ASSING spec. nov.
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(Figs 63–64)
Type material: Holotype ♂: “GR – Crete [16], Zakros, 35°06'57"N, 26°13'10"E, 190 m, dry stream valley, soil washing, 27.XII.2018, V. Assing / Holotypus ♂ Geomitopsis cretica sp. n. det. V. Assing 2019” (cAss). Paratypes: 2 ♀♀: same data as holotype (cAss); 1♂: “GR – Crete [19], S Kritsa, SW Kroustas, 35°07'01"N, 25°37'55"E, 810 m, soil washing, 28.XII.2018, V. Assing ” (cAss).
Etymology: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from Creta, where this species is most likely endemic.
Description: 1.9–2.1 mm (abdomen extended), length of forebody 0.65–0.75 mm. Colour of body pale reddishbrown; legs yellow; antennae reddish-yellow.
Head distinctly dilated posteriad, distinctly separated from neck in dorsal view; punctation indistinct in the pronounced microreticulation. Eyes completely reduced. Antenna 0.35–0.39 mm long, with three-jointed club; antennomeres III–X strongly transverse, V and VII distinctly broader than neighbouring antennomeres.
Pronotum approximately as broad as long and slightly narrower than head; disc with few coarser punctures; micropunctation indistinct; microreticulation similar to that of head.
Elytra approximately 0.8 times as long as pronotum; punctation indistinct; microreticulation composed of larger meshes than that of head and pronotum. Hind wings completely reduced.
Abdomen with microsculpture composed of large isodiametric meshes; punctation indistinct.
♂: aedeagus 0.2 mm long and shaped as in Figs 63–64.
Comparative notes: The aedeagus of G. cretica is similar to that of G. anatolica COIffAIT, 1979 (Turkey: Mersin), but distinguished by a more strongly excavate and apically longer ventral process (lateral view) and differently shaped parameres. For illustrations of G. anatolica see COIffAIT (1979).
Distribution and natural history: The specimens were collected by soil washing in two localities in East Crete. The type locality is a dry temporary stream valley with Platanus orientalis at an altitude of 190 m, the second locality a rocky forest with old Quercus ilex and old pine trees at an altitude of 810 m.
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Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://zoobank.org/1D3E575E-A726-422D-BA91-AF9B98BCA2BD
- URL
- http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C4053B5AFFD3C91BFF708CE985E0764D
- LSID
- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1D3E575E-A726-422D-BA91-AF9B98BCA2BD
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2018-12-27 , 2018-12-28
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Geomitopsis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Assing & Brachat & Meybohm
- Species
- cretica
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-12-27 , 2018-12-28
- Taxonomic concept label
- Geomitopsis cretica Assing, 2019
References
- ASSING, V. 2019: Monograph of the Staphylinidae of Crete (Greece). Part I. Diversity and endemism (Insecta: Coleoptera). - Contributions to Entomology 69 (2): 197 - 238.
- COIffAIT, H. 1979: Nouveaux Staphylidae [sic] endoges anophtalmes [sic]. - Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie 9 (4): 313 - 316.