Tychobythinus araneipes (Normand, 1930)

Sabella, Giorgio, Nouira, Vera D’Urso Said, Souissi, Rhida & Besuchet, Claude, 2013, A review of Tychobythinus theryi species group with description of a new species from Algeria (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), Zootaxa 3701 (1), pp. 63-75 : 68

Tychobythinus araneipes (Normand, 1930)

Bythoxenus (Acanthobythus) araneipes Normand 1930: 163 , figs 1 (habitus) and 2 (head, lateral view);

Acanthobythus araneipes Jeannel 1956: 65 , figs 59 (habitus) and 60 (maxillary palpus);

Tychobythinus araneipes Newton & Chandler 1989: 48 ; Löbl & Besuchet 2004: 314; Besuchet, Cuccodoro, Sabella 2013: 272, figs 1 (habitus), 2 (head and palpi), 3 (base of antenna), 4 (aedeagus) and 8 (head and pronotum).

Type material. Lectotype, male. NORTHEASTERN ALGERIA. Skikda province: male, Philippeville, route de Collo, X.1929 (H. Normand) (MHNG). Paralectotypes, 2 female, same data as lectotype (MHNG).

Comparative notes. Tychobythinus araneipes is the only member of the genus to have conspicuous temporal spines. This species is similar to T. longipalpis in the short occipital median carina reaching the middle of the occipital region (occipital median carina at least reaching the anterior edge of vertexal foveae in other species) and in antennal scape about 5 times longer than wide (at most 4 times longer than wide in other species), it has the aedeagus similar to T. normandi and T. monoceros . Also for the deep and broad depression of gular region of male and the clypeal carina reaching the temporal region (reaching the ocular region in all other species of the theryi group) T. araneipes is comparable with T. normandi .

Remarks. Species recently attributed to genus Tychobythinus (Besuchet et al. 2013) .