Meotica smetanai SCHEERPELTZ , 1967

Assing, Volker & Vogel, Jürgen, 2019, The mother of synonyms: on the Meotica species of the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Oxypodini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 731-772 : 762

Meotica smetanai SCHEERPELTZ, 1967 ( Figs 65-68 )

Meotica smetanai SCHEERPELTZ, 1967: 547 ff.

T y p e m a t e r i a l examined: Lectotype ♂, present designation: " ♂ / Albania centr., Tiranë, Smetana 1958 / 27.IV. A [overleaf] / ex coll. Scheerpeltz / Cotypus Meotica smetanai O. Scheerpeltz / Lectotypus ♂ Meotica smetanai Scheerpeltz , desig. V. Assing 2017 / Meotica smetanai Scheerpeltz , det. V. Assing 2017" ( NHMW). Paralectotypes: 1♀: same data as lectotype ( NHMW); 1♂, 1♀: same data as lectotype, but "Typus" ( NHMW) .

C o m m e n t: The original description is based on "1 ♂, 1 ♀, Typen, 3 ♀♀ Paratypen " from " Albania centr., Tiranë " ( SCHEERPELTZ 1967). Since a holotype is not specified, all the type specimens must be regarded as syntypes. The male labelled as "Cotypus" is designated as the lectotype, as it is in better condition.

D i a g n o s i s: ♂: median lobe of aedeagus 0.23 mm long, somewhat resembling that of M. filaria ( Figs 65-66 ); apical lobe of paramere blackish.

♀: sternite VIII ( Fig. 67 ) weakly transverse, posterior margin convex; spermatheca similar to that of M. parasita and M. moczarskii , but with coiled proximal portion ( Fig. 68 ).

C o n f i r m e d d i s t r i b u t i o n: Albania.

Figures

Figs 60-68: Meotica ochsi (60-64; 60: lectotype; 63: paralectotype; 61-62, 64: Provence) and M. smetanai (65-68): (60-62, 65-66) median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view; (63-64, 68) spermatheca; (67) female sternite VIII. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.