Aleochara (Xenochara) turkestanica LIKOVSKÝ , 1966

Assing, V., 2009, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Aleochara species of the subgenera Xenochara M & R and Rheochara M & R (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1), pp. 33-101 : 90-91

Aleochara (Xenochara) turkestanica LIKOVSKÝ, 1966 ( Figs 199-201)

Aleochara (Polychara) turkestanica LIKOVSKÝ 1966: 1 ff.

Type material examined:

Holotype ♂: "Turkestan, Aulie Ata / Aulie / A. Banghaasi m. i. l. / Aleochara haemoptera Kr., Coll. Reitter / Holotypus Aleochara turkestanica m., Zb. Likovský det. 66 / Holotypus / Aleochara turkestanica Likovský , det. V. Assing 2009" ( HNHM) . Paratype ♀: "Turkestan, Aulie Ata / Aleochara haemoptera Kr., Coll. Reitter / Allotypus Aleochara turkestanica m., Zb. Likovský det. 66 / Allotypus / Aleochara turkestanica Likovský , det. V. Assing 2009" ( HNHM) .

Comment:

The original description is based on two type specimens, a male holotype and a female paratype, both from "Turkestan, Aulie Ata" ( LIKOVSKÝ 1966).

Redescription:

Body length 3.5-3.9 mm. Body conspicuously bicoloured: head, and abdomen blackish-brown, abdominal apex (segments IX-X, posterior margins of segments VII and VIII) pale yellowish; pronotum dark-brown; elytra pale yellowish, distinctly contrasting with the much darker head, pronotum, and abdomen; legs yellowish-brown to reddish-brown; antennae dark-brown.

Antennae relatively massive. Palpomere III of maxillary palpus distinctly more than twice as long as wide. Head and pronotum with fine and moderately dense punctation; elytra with dense and rather shallow punctation. Pronotum approximately 1.30-1.35 times as wide as long and 1.4 times as wide as head. Elytra 0.80-0.85 times as long as pronotum. Abdomen with fine and moderately sparse punctation; anterior impressions of tergites III-V rather shallow and with sparse and very fine punctation.

♂: median lobe of aedeagus as in Figs 199-200.

♀: spermatheca as in Fig. 201.

Comparative notes:

Like the preceding species, A. turkestanica refers to the A. sparsa group. It is characterised particularly by the conspicuously bicoloured body, the relatively massive antennae, the fine and sparse punctation of the anterior impressions of tergites III-V, and by the primary sexual characters.

Distribution:

This species has become known only from the type locality in Kazakhstan .