Oxypoda hispanica BERNHAUER 1914

Assing, V., 2012, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Oxypoda species of the West Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1), pp. 365-399 : 393-394

Oxypoda hispanica BERNHAUER 1914 ( Figs 44-45 , Map 5 )

Oxypoda hispanica BERNHAUER 1914: 42 .

Oxypoda virgata ASSING 2008: 1313 ff.; nov.syn.

Type material examined: Lectotype, present designation: "Palencia, Paganetti / hispanica Brnh. Typus / Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Collection / Lectotypus Oxypoda hispanica Bernhauer , desig. V. Assing 2011 " ( FMNH) . Paralectotypes: 6 exs.: same data as lectotype, but "Cotypus" ( FMNH) ; 1 ex.: " Palencia , Paganetti / filiformis var. Nordspanien, det. Bernh. / hispanica Brh. Coypus / Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Collection " ( FMNH) ; 1: " Palencia , Paganetti / hispanica Brh. / Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Collection " ( FMNH) .

Additional material examined: Spain: 4 exs., Andalucía, Sierra de Cazorla, Nava de San Petro , 1500 m, pine forest, 6.X.1993, leg. Wunderle (cWun). Morocco: 4 exs., Haut Atlas, SE Asni, Oukaimeden, 31°13'N, 7°50´W, 2500 m, heavily grazed grassland, under stones, 28.XII.2002, leg. Assing (cAss) ; 45 exs., same data, but sifted from grass roots, leg. Assing & Wunderle (cAss, cWun) ; 4 exs., Haut Atlas, Cirque de Jaffar , leg. Franz (cAss) .

Comment: The original description of O. hispanica is based on a larger number ("in grösserer Anzahl") of syntypes from "Nordspanien (Palencia)" and few specimens ("einzelne Stücke") from "Navacenada" and "Badajoz" ( BERNHAUER 1914). Nine syntypes from Palencia were located in the Bernhauer collection at the FMNH; one of the males is designated as the lectotype. The species is conspecific with O. virgata ASSING 2008 , whose description is based on numerous specimens from Andalucía and Castilla-La Mancha; hence the synonymy proposed above. For an illustration of the median lobe of the aedeagus and the spermatheca of the lectotype and a paralectotype, respectively, see Figs 44-45 . The aedeagus of O. virgata is illustrated in ASSING (2008).

Oxypoda hispanica had been recorded only from Spain, where it is widespread and apparently not particularly rare. The above specimens from the Haut Atlas represent the first records from Morocco ( Map 5 ).

Figures

Map 5: Distribution of Oxypoda hispanica BERNHAUER based on revised records.

Figs 42-50: Oxypoda determinata SCRIBA (42-43; 42: neotype of O. determinata and lectotype of O. incerta EPPELSHEIM; 43: paralectotype of O. incerta), O. hispanica BERNHAUER (44-45; 44: lectotype; 45: paralectotype), and O. flavicornis KRAATZ (46-50) from Sicily (46-47), northern Anatolia (48), and Albania (49-50): (42, 44, 46-49) median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view; (43, 45, 50) spermatheca. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.