Oxypoda (Thliboptera) antennata Bernhauer, 1902

Assing, Volker, 2007, On the Oxypoda species of Turkey and adjacent regions. II. Three new species, additional records, and a checklist (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 1411, pp. 1-24 : 3

Oxypoda (Thliboptera) antennata Bernhauer, 1902

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Material examined. TURKEY: Bursa: 1 ex., Bursa, VII.1972, leg. Schubert ( NHMW); Kastamonu: 1 ex., 45 km N Kastamonu, 25.V.1989, leg. Schönmann & Schillhammer ( NHMW). Izmir: 10 exs., ca. 25 km NE Aydın, WSW Hamamköy, Murtat Daġı, 1230 m, 38°01’N, 27°57’E, 9.IV.2006, leg. Assing (cAss); 6 exs., WSW Hamamköy, Murtat Daġı, 38°01’N, 27°57’E, 1330 m, N-slope with scattered old oak, sifted grass and oak litter, 9.IV.2006, leg. Assing, Wunderle (cAss, cWun); Aydın: 7 exs., ca. 20 km NE Kuyucak, Bayrak Tepe, 38°00’N, 28°35’E, 1480 m, N-slope, grass roots and pine litter sifted, 7.IV.2006, leg. Assing, Wunderle (cAss, cWun); 1 ex., ca. 10 km WSW Karakasu, Karinçali Daġı, ca. 37°41’N, 28°32’E, 1500 m, N-slope, thymian roots and pine litter sifted, under stones, 8.IV.2006, leg. Assing (cAss); Bitlis: 1 ex., Tatvan, 20.V.1969, leg. Schubert ( NHMW); 1 ex., Tatvan, 1800 m, VI.1971, leg. Schubert (cAss); Erzurum: 2 exs., 40 km NW Tortum, Mescit Daġları, ca. 40°36’N, 41°23’E, 1800 m, 21.VI.1998, leg. Solodovnikov (cAss).

Comment. Oxypoda antennata had been reported from various localities in northwestern, western, southern, and eastern Anatolia ( Assing 2006a); the above specimens from Erzurum represent the first records from the northeast. The currently known distribution is illustrated in Fig. 1 .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Distributions of Oxypoda antennata Bernhauer (filled circles;?: unidentified type locality of the synonym O. lindbergi Scheerpeltz in the eastern Van lake area), O. fissa Assing (open circles), and O. acutissima Assing (squares) in Turkey.