Lesteva brathinoides Zerche, 2000

Shavrin, Alexey V., Shilenkov, Viktor G. & Anistschenko, Alexander V., 2007, Two new species and additional records of Lesteva Latreille, 1797 from the mountains of South Siberia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini), Zootaxa 1427, pp. 37-47 : 44

Lesteva brathinoides Zerche, 2000

( Figs. 4 , 13–14 )

Lesteva brathinoides Zerche, 2000: 66 .

Material. RUSSIA: Republic of Buryatia: ɗ, Eastern Sayan, 7 km NW Arshan, upper reaches of Kyngarga River, h= 2500 m, 3.vii.1993, tundra, under stones, leg. V. Shilenkov ( IGU); Ψ, same label but leg. V. Shilenkov ( IGU); 2ɗɗ, 3ΨΨ, same locality but, 18–23.vii.1995, leg. A. Shavrin & A. Anistschenko (cS); 2ɗɗ, 2ΨΨ, in same locality, 1.07.1996, tundra, under stones, at the edge of snow, leg. A. Shavrin & A. Anistschenko (cA, cS, ZIN).

Distribution. Known only from the type locality in the Tunkinskie goltzi (= Tunkinskij mountain range) of the East Sayan.

Remarks. Habitus as in Fig. 4 . Aedeagus in two projections as in Figs. 13–14 .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. Habitus of Lesteva. 1 — L. dabanensis sp. n.; 2 — L. barguzinica sp. n.; 3 — L. sajanensis Zerche; 4 — L. brathinoides Zerche. Scale bar 1.3 mm.

FIGURE 13 – 14. Aedeagus of Lesteva brathinoides Zerche. 13 — ventral view, 14 — lateral view. Scale bar 0.3 mm.