Delenda carthago Croissandeau 1891
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Delenda carthago Croissandeau, 1891
(Figs. 3 a, 6a, 8)
Delenda carthago Croissandeau, 1891: 152 (original description).
Delenda carthago Croissandeau: Raffray, 1904: 500 (catalogue); Raffray, 1911: 7 (catalogue); Löbl and Besuchet, 2004: 295 (catalog); Anlaş, 2009: 239 (catalog).
Material examined. (13 ♂♂, 17 ♀♀). Holotype: (1 ♀) Asia Minor / Delenda carthago (MNHN); (10 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀) Turkey, Balikesir, Kaz Dagi Ayazma, N39.74583 E26.84786, 500 m, 11.04. 2010, leg. Brachat & Meybohm; (1 ♂, 1 ♀) Turkey, Canakkale, Kaz Dagi Ayazma, N39.75000 E28.83500, 440 m, 11.04.2010, leg. Brachat & Meybohm; (2 ♀♀) Turkey, Belikesir, Kurucam Tepe, N39.68583 E27.15931, 740 m, 13.04.2010, leg. Brachat & Meybohm; (1 ♂, 3 ♀♀) Turkey, Belikesir, Kurucam Tepe, N39.69422 E27.14214, 708 m, 13.04.2010, leg. Brachat & Meybohm; (1 ♂, 1 ♀) Turkey, Canakkale, Kaz Dagi-Gebiet, ca. 30 km NO Edremit, Kurucam Tepe, N39.72478 E27.18364, 428 m, 14.04.2010, leg. Brachat & Meybohm (MNHN, NMNHS, PCPH, PCVB).
Redescription. Male, length 1.41–1.53 mm. Head slightly wider than long, HL 0.22–0.26 mm, HW 0.28–0.32 mm; eyes each composed of about 10–20 facets. Antennal length 0.50 – 0.52 mm. Labrum as in Fig. 3 a. Pronotum about as long as wide, PL 0.28–0.34 mm, PW 0.32–0.34 mm. Elytra wider than long, EL 0.22–0.26 mm, EW 0.36– 0.40 mm. Legs short, without any modiffications. Abdomen with first visible tergite (IV) wider than long (0.44– 0.48/ 0.18–0.20 mm); second (V) — 0.50–0.52/ 0.20–0.21 mm; third (VI) — 0.46–0.50/ 0.21–0.22 mm. Length of aedeagus 0.32–0.36 mm, as in Fig. 6 a; parameres with large base parallel–sided and slender, curved laterally in middle part, apex rounded. Female. Similar to male: BL 1.53–1.62 mm, HL 0.24–0.26 mm, HW 0.32–0.34 mm, PL 0.30–0.31 mm, PW 0.32–0.34 mm, EL 0.23–0.24 mm, EW 0.46–0.48 mm.
Differential diagnosis. All species are very similar in habitus, differing only in the shape of the aedeagus and the labrum.
Biology. All specimens were collected in leaf litter of Platanus orienalis and Corylus sp. Distibution. Turkey, western part of Belikesir province (Fig. 8).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Croissandeau
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Delenda
- Species
- carthago
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Delenda carthago Croissandeau, 1891 sec. Bekchiev & Brachat, 2014
References
- Croissandeau, J. (1891) Delenda n. gen. Coleopteriste, 10, 152 - 153.
- Raffray, A. (1904) Genera et catalogue des Pselaphides. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 72, 484 - 604.
- Raffray, A. (1911) Pselaphidae. In: Schenkling, S. (Ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 27. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1 - 222
- Lobl, I. & Besuchet, C. (2004) Pselaphinae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Palearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 2. Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 942 pp.
- Anlas, S. (2009) Distributional checklist of the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of Turkey, with new and additional records. Linzer Biologische Beitraege, 41, 215 - 342.