Amarochara freyi Bernhauer 1940, comb. n.
Creators
Description
Amarochara freyi (Bernhauer, 1940), comb. n.
(Fig. 19)
Ocyusa (Cousya) freyi Bernhauer, 1940: 1038.
Amarochara (Mniobates) splendens Jarrige, 1952: 138; syn. n.
Type material examined. Holotype [not dissected]: [MOROCCO:] Azrou, Atlas, 17.4.33 / Freyi Brh. Typ. / desiderata / Freyi Brh. Typus unic. Ocyusa / Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection / Amarochara freyi Bernhauer det. V. Assing 2005 (FMNH).
Comment. The original description of Ocyusa freyi is explicitly based on a single holotype specimen from "Atlas (Azron)" (Bernhauer 1940). An examination of the holotype (Fig. 19), which was found while browsing through the Oxypodini collection at the FMNH, revealed that it refers to the genus Amarochara and that it is conspecific with—and consequently the senior synonym of— A. splendens Jarrige, 1952. Since this species is readily distinguished from its congeners by external characters alone, the holotype was not dissected. A diagnosis and figures of the genitalia are provided by Assing (2002a).
Notes
Files
Files
(1.5 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:cebcc83d5bbfe4f9e024739dc239cc3f
|
1.5 kB | Download |
System files
(11.4 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:760064f569a107dff62f193c226af26f
|
11.4 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Amarochara
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bernhauer
- Species
- freyi
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amarochara freyi (Bernhauer, 1940) sec. Assing, 2007
References
- Bernhauer, M. (1940) Neuheiten der palaarktischen Staphylinidenfauna (Col. Staph.). Mitteilungen der Munchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft e. V., 30, 1025 - 1047.
- Jarrige, J. (1952) Brachelytres nouveaux ou mal connus de la faune circamediterraneenne. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 119, 117 - 139.
- Assing, V. (2002 a) A taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of Amarochara Thomson. I. The species of the Holarctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Oxypodini). Beitrage zur Entomologie, Keltern, 52, 111 - 204.