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Lesteva championi Lohse 1982

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Lesteva (s.str.) championi Lohse, 1982

(Fig. 3−4)

Lesteva championi Lohse, 1982:203

Type material examined: Paratype of Lesteva championi Lohse, 3: ‘Para-|type’ <printed circle label with yellow margin>, ‘ Naggar, | Kulu. Punjab. | 5,000 ft. H. G.C.’, ‘ H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’, ‘Coll. G.A. Lohse | MHNG-1994 ’ (MHNG); paratypes of Lesteva championi Lohse, 2 3: ‘Para-|type’ <printed circle label with yellow margin>, ‘ KASHMIR; | Gulmarg, | vi-vii.1931 | Dr. Cameron. / M. Cameron. | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’, empty original plate of M. Cameron, ‘Coll. G.A. Lohse | MHNG-1994 ’, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ (MHNG); paratype of Lesteva championi Lohse, 1 ♀: ‘Para-|type’ <printed circle label with yellow margin>, ‘ Chakrata Dist. | Binal Gad 7-8000 f | Dr. Cameron. | 24.V.22.’, ‘M. Cameron. | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’, ‘Coll. G.A. Lohse | MHNG-1994’ (MHNG); paratype of Lesteva championi Lohse, 1 ♀: ‘Para-|type’ <printed circle label with yellow margin>, ‘ Monali, | Kulu, V. Punjab. 6000 ft. H.G.C.’, ‘H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156’, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’, ‘Coll. G.A. Lohse | MHNG-1994 ’ (MHNG); paratype of Lesteva championi Lohse, 1 3: ‘Bhabbu Pass, | Kulu, Punjab. | 9000 ft. H.G.C.’, ‘H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’, ‘ championi [handwritten] | det. Dr. G. A. Lohse’, ‘Cotype’ <pink label, handwritten>, ‘Coll. G.A. Lohse | MHNG-1994 ’ (MHNG).

Additional material: PAKISTAN: 1 3, 1 ♀: ‘PAKISTAN: Swat Malam Jabba, 2400 m, 9.v.83, [C.]Besuchet-[I.]Löbl’, ‘ championi Lohse’ (MHNG); 2 3: ‘ PAKISTAN: Hazara Nathias Gali 2500 m, 5.vi.1983, [C.]Besuchet-[I.]Löbl’, ‘ championi Lohse’ (MHNG); 1 ♀: ‘ 17-22.IV.1984, leg. S. Vit, feuilles mortes, envs. Dunga-Gali Hazara PAKISTAN sept.’, ‘ championi Lohse’ (MHNG); 1 ♀: ‘ 17-22.IV.1984, leg. S. Vit, e`coru Pinus m. 2300, envs. Nathia-Gali Hazara PAKISTAN sept.’, ‘ championi Lohse’ (MHNG); NEPAL: 1 3: ‘NEPAL (Prov. Bagmati) | Malemchi, 2900 m | 14.IV.81 | [I.]Löbl & [A.]Smetana’, ‘Coll. | G.A. Lohse | MHNG-1994 ’, ‘n.sp.’ <handwritten> (MHNG).

Remarks. L championi was described by G.A. Lohse after “..study further series of L. “ fluviata ” from the Cameron collection (BM(NH))” from several mountain localities of North India (Uttaranchal Pradesh and Uttarakhand) (type locality of the holotype: “Chakrata Dist[rict]., Binal Gad”). Aedeagus as in Fig. 3−4. It is here recorded from Pakistan for the first time.

Notes

Published as part of SHAVRIN, ALEXEY V., 2012, New and poorly known species of the genus Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) from Nepal, pp. 78-84 in Zootaxa 3547 (1) on pages 81-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3547.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/212371

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MHNG
Material sample ID
MHNG-1994
Event date
1922-05-24 , 1981-04-14 , 1983-05-09 , 1983-06-05 , 1984-04-17
Verbatim event date
1922-05-24 , 1981-04-14 , 1983-05-09 , 1983-06-05 , 1984-04-17/22
Scientific name authorship
Lohse
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Lesteva
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Lesteva Lohse, 1982 sec. SHAVRIN, 2012

References

  • Lohse, G. A. (1982) The species of the genus Lesteva Latreille (Col., Staphylinidae) known from northern India. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 118, 201 - 205.