Aphaenostemmus rhodicus ASSING 2006

Assing, V., 2013, A new species and a new record of Aphaenostemmus from southern Turkey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1521-1525 : 1524

Aphaenostemmus rhodicus ASSING 2006 ( Fig. 8 )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Turkey: 1, 1, Antalya, Göynuk near Kemer, 36°39'N, 30°31'E, 14.V.2009, leg. Sieber (cAss).

C o m m e n t: This species was previously known only from the Greek island Rhódos ( ASSING 2006). The above specimens represent the first record from Turkey. They were collected in the same locality and under the same circumstances as A. distortus . The previously unknown symmetric aedeagus is characterized as follows: length 0.39 mm; ventral process very slender, strongly curved in lateral view, and apically acute; parameres short and apically truncate; internal tube long and weakly sclerotized ( Fig. 8 ). The aedeagus of A. rhodicus differs from that of the closely related and externally similar A. bordei PEYERIMHOFF 1914 from North Africa ( Algeria, Tunisia) by distinctly smaller size ( A. bordei : length 0.65 mm), the smoothly curved ventral process ( A. bordei : straight in apical half), the simply pointed apex of the ventral process ( A. bordei : apex with short dorso-apical process), and by the much shorter and apically truncate parameres. The aedeagus of a male of A. bordei from Tunisia is illustrated in Fig. 9 .

Figures

Figs 1-9: Aphaenostemmus distortus nov.sp. (1-7), A. rhodicus ASSING (Turkey) (8), and A. bordei PEYERIMHOFF (Tunisia) (9): (1) habitus; (2) forebody; (3) postero-median portion of head and median portion of pronotum; (4) antenna; (5, 8, 9) aedeagus in lateral view; (6) aedeagus in ventral view; (7) paramere in ventral view. Scale bars: 1: 1.0 mm; 2: 0.5 mm; 3-9: 0.2 mm.