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Ocypus (Pseudocypus) picipennis

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21. Ocypus (Pseudocypus) picipennis (Fabricius, 1793)

(Figs. 21-1, 21-2)

Fabricius, 1793: 521 (Staphylinus; Type locality: Germania); Ganglbauer, 1895: 433 (Staphylinus; subgenus Pseudocypus; characters; Palaearctic region); Bernhauer & Schubert, 1914: 389 (Staphylinus; subgenus Ocypus; catalog); J. Müller, 1926a: 20 (Staphylinus; subgenus Pseudocypus; characters; notes); Bernhauer, 1934: 5 (Staphylinus; subgenus Pseudocypus; China); J. Müller, 1943: 103 (Staphylinus; characters; notes); Smetana & Davies, 2000: 44 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus); Herman, 2001: 27 (Ocypus; prevailing use as valid maintained pending outcome of application to Commission under Article 23.9.3); Herman, 2001: 3405 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; Catalog); Smetana, 2004: 678 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; Catalog of Palaearctic Region); International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 2004:194 (Placed on Official List, with precedence over Staphylinus picipennis Fabricius); Smetana, 2009b: 3 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; redescription); Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 1093 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; Catalog of Palaearctic Region).

Subspecies and Synonyms:

Staphylinus picipennis barbarus J. Müller, 1926 Pseudocypus marocanus Coiffait, 1964

Staphylinus picipennis caucasicus J. Müller, 1926 Staphylinus picipennis fallaciosus J. Müller, 1926 Ocypus maritimus Coiffait, 1956

Staphylinus picipennis nevadensis J. Müller, 1926 Ocypus asturicus Coiffait, 1956

Ocypus cerdanicus Coiffait, 1956

Ocypus gallicus Coiffait, 1956

Ocypus rufoasturicus Coiffait, 1956

Ocypus rufocerdanicus Coiffait, 1956

Ocypus rufogallicus Coiffait, 1956

Pseudocypus teruelensis Coiffait, 1976

Staphylinus picipennis picipennis Fabricius, 1792 Staphylinus abbruzzensis J. Müller, 1926 Staphylinus altaiensis J. Müller, 1926

Pseudocypus anatolicus Coiffait, 1964

Pseudocypus andorranus Coiffait, 1964 Staphylinus aprutianus J. Müller, 1926

Pseudocypus bulgaricus Coiffait, 1970

Staphylinus graecus Scheerpeltz, 1958

Staphylinus hercegovinensis J. Müller, 1932 Staphylinus leucophthalmus Marsham, 1802 Staphylinus penetrans O. Müller, 1776

Pseudocypus pindensis Coiffait, 1964

Pseudocypus ponticus Coiffait, 1978 [homonym, preoccupied by ponticus Smetana, 1968] Pseudocypus rodopensis Coiffait, 1971

Staphylinus sericeus Marsham, 1802

Staphylinus tristis Fabricius, 1792

Material examined. CHINA: Xinjiang Province: 3 males, 1 female, Altai Region, Xichahe, 2050 m, 31.VII.1960, coll. Shuyong Wang (IZ-CAS); 4 males, Wuku Highway, north side of Tian Shan, 1600 m, 13.VI.1960, coll. Shuyong Wang (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Altai Region, Azubai Region, 2370 m, 3.VII.1960, coll. Shuyong Wang (IZ- CAS); 2 males, 1 female, around Qinghe County, 150–600 m, 1.IX.1957, coll. Guang Wang (IZ-CAS); 1 male, 1 female, Shaosu County, Alashan Region, 2200 m, 2.VIII.1978, coll. Yanheng Han (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Shaosu County, Alashan Region, 2200 m, 6.VIII.1978, coll. Yanheng Han (IZ-CAS); 4 males, Wusu County, Bayingou Pastures, 5.VI.1999, coll. Hongbin Liang (IZ-CAS).

Measurements. Body length: 13.2–20.3 mm CL: 0.72; EL: 3.23; ELS: 1.61; EW: 3.57; HL: 2.38; HW: 2.76; PO: 0.93; PL: 3.07; PW: 3.06.

Distribution. Ocypus picipennis is widely distributed from Europe to Asia, in China it is known only from Xinjiang Province.

Notes

Published as part of He, Liang & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2017, Taxonomy of the subgenus Pseudocypus Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) and eight new species from China, pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4339 (1) on page 61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4339.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1037681

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