Lesteva (s.str.) championi Lohse, 1982

Shavrin, Alexey V., 2016, New taxonomic and faunistic data on the Himalayan Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae), Zootaxa 4205 (2), pp. 143-150 : 144-145

Lesteva (s.str.) championi Lohse, 1982

Lesteva championi Lohse, 1982: 203

Lesteva (s.str.) championi: Shavrin, 2012: 81, 2015a: 533

Type material examined: INDIA: Holotype of Lesteva championi Lohse, 1982 , ♂ [The aedeagus, abdominal sternite VIII and tergite VIII are glued under the specimen; apical abdominal segment is lost]: ‘Holo- | type’ <round label with red margin, printed>, ‘ Chakrata Dist. | Binal Gad 7-8000`| Dr. Cameron. | 24. V. 22 .’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Holotypus’ <red rectangular label, handwritten>, ‘ Lesteva championi | n.sp. | holotypus [handwritten] | det.Dr.G.A.Lohse’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH).

Paratypes of Lesteva championi Lohse, 1982 , 3 ♂, 1 ♀: same labels as the holotype except label ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed> (BMNH); 200 specimens: ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘KASHMIR: Gulmarg. | vi-vii.1931 | Dr. Cameron’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘ Hazara, N.W.F. Prov., [underlined by yellow] | Upper Kagan Valley. | 8,000 ft., 11.vi.1927. ’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ <rectangular label, printed> ( BMNH) ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round printed label with yellow margin>, ‘Ranikhet, | Kumaon. | H.G.C.’ <printed>, ‘H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ <rectangular printed label>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ <rectangular printed label> (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘ Monali , | Kulu, V. Punjab. | 6000ft. H.G.C. ’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ <rectangular label, printed> ( BMNH) ; 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘ Chakrata Dist. | Sainj Khud 6500`’<rectangular label, printed>, ‘ M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva championi | n.sp. | holotypus [handwritten] | det. Dr.G.A. Lohse’ <rectangular label, printed> ( BMNH) ; 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘ Chakrata Dist. | Korawa Khud 9100`’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Dr. Cameron. | 4. V. 22 ’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva championi | n.sp. | holotypus [sic] [handwritten] | det. Dr.G.A. Lohse’ <rectangular label, printed> ( BMNH) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round printed label with yellow margin>, ‘ Jibhi , Seraj. | Punjab, 6,000ft | H.G.C. v.1926 ’ <printed>, ‘ H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ <rectangular printed label>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ <rectangular printed label> ( BMNH) .

Additional material: INDIA: 1 ♂: ‘ Kashmir Gulmarg vi-vii.1931 Dr. Cameron’, ‘ W. Steel coll. B.M. 1969- 552’, ‘ championi’, ‘ Coll. G. A. Lohse MHNG-1994’ ( MHNG) ; 2 ♂, 2 ♀: same data ( BMNH) ; 2 ♂, 3 ♀: ‘ Naggar , Lulu. Punjab. 5,000ft. H. G.C. ’ ( BMNH) ; 2 ♂: ‘ Chakrata dist. | Sainj Khud | 29/5/22.6500`’ … [unreadable]’ ( BMNH) ; 1 ♂ [labeled as the syntype of Lathrimaeum monticola Cameron, 1924 ; aedeagus and apical abdominal segment are glued on the same new card under the beetle, old card under new label]: ‘SYN- | TYPE’ <round label with blue margin, printed>, ‘ Theog 7600`| Simla Hills. ’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Dr. Cameron. | IX. 1921.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ M. Cameron | Bequest. | B. M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva with [handwritten] | Lathrimaeum monticola [handwritten] | P.M.Hammond | det.1969 | Cam [eron] . syntypes [handwritten]’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | Shavrin A.V. det. 2016’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH).

Remarks. Lesteva championi was described by Lohse (1982) from North India. The figures of the aedeagus were provided by me recently ( Shavrin 2015a).

Among specimens of the type material of Lathrimaeum monticola Cameron, 1924 (now Anthobium ) in BMNH, one syntype (male), labeled by P. Hammond as ‘ Lesteva [...]’ was found. I studied the aedeagus of this specimen which proved to be conspecific with L. championi .

The species is widely distributed from Pakistan and Kashmir through Northern provinces of India (Uttaranchal Pradesh, Uttarakhand) to Nepal .