Afropselaphus meybohmi, Brachat & Assing, 2021

Brachat, Volker & Assing, Volker, 2021, The Afropselaphus fauna of South Turkey and the Middle East (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 53 (2), pp. 545-568 : 565

Afropselaphus meybohmi nov.sp. ( Fig. 28 , Map 1 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype ♁: " N32°19'32 E35°43'26 Jordan Ajlun Ajlun Castle 980 m (2) lg. Meybohm 21.2.2014 / Afropselaphus meybohmi spec. nov. ♁ det. Brachat 2021 / Holotypus " (cBra).

E t y m o l o g y: This species is dedicated to our friend Heinrich Meybohm, Grosshansdorf, who collected the holotype.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 1.75 mm. Other measurements (in mm): HL: 0.36; HW: 0.26; AL♁: 0.74; PpL: 0.30 mm; PL: 0.30; PW: 0.28; EL: 0.40; EW: 0.64; AedL: 0.43.

Head slightly more than 1.3 times as long as broad. Eyes composed of 7 ommatidia. Antennae rather short; antennomeres I-III and XI distinctly longer than broad, IV-IX weakly oblong, and X as long as broad. Apical club of maxillary palpomere IV approximately two-thirds as long as total length of palpomere IV. Pronotum weakly oblong and slightly broader than head, with large median ante-basal fovea.

♁: metaventrite convex, near posterior margin with two series of setae; sternite IV with distinct oval medio-basal impression extending beyond middle of sternite, lateral margins of this impression with a series of short setae; aedeagus as in Fig. 28.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: This species is distinguished from A. clavigeroides by a pronotum with a large median ante-basal fovea and the internal structures of the aedeagus, from all the representatives of the A. clavigeroides group distributed in Turkey also by relatively shorter antennae.

D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d n a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The type locality is situated near Ajlun, some 30 km to the south-southwest of Irbid, Northwest Jordan ( Map 1 ). The holotype was sifted in a pasture woodland at an altitude of 980 m. For a photo of the type locality see figure 71 in ASSING & MEYBOHM (2021).

Figures

Map 1: Distribution of Afropselaphus muglanus (black triangle), A. pisidicus (white triangle), A. tenuispinosus (grey triangles), A. wolfi (black stars), A. frederici (white star), A. cilicicus (grey star), A. longispinosus (white circles), A. spoliatus (black circles), A. bispinosus (grey circles), A. clavigeroides (black diamonds), A. assmanni (white diamond), A. aequalis (black square), and A. meybohmi (white square).

Figs 23-28: Afropselaphus trispinosus nov.sp. (23-24), A. bispinosus nov.sp. (25-26) from South Hatay (25) and from Kɪzɪldağɪ (26), A. kizilicus nov.sp. (27), and A. meybohmi nov.sp. (28): aedeagus in dorsal view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm.