Encephalus (Orphnebioidea) rosti ( Schubert, 1908 )

Enuschenko, Ilya V. & Shavrin, Alexey V., 2021, On some species of Gyrophaenina Kraatz 1856 of Sri Lanka and India (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Homalotini), Zootaxa 5032 (3), pp. 331-356 : 333

Encephalus (Orphnebioidea) rosti ( Schubert, 1908)

( Figs 1–2 )

Gyrophaena (Orphnebioidea) rosti Schubert, 1908: 611 ; Fenyes 1918: 24, Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz 1926: 528, Cameron 1939: 62, Blackwelder 1952: 277, Ashe 1984: 234, 246

Encephalus (Orphnebioidea) rosti: Pace 1987: 386 , Smetana 2004: 442, Schülke & Smetana 2015: 636

Material examined: 1 ♀ [labels as in Fig. 2 ]: ’17.’, ‘ Gyrophaena Rosti Schub. Himalaya Kulu’ ( ZIN) .

Distribution. India: Himachal Pradesh.

Remarks. Gyrophaena rosti was originally described from “Kulu, Himalaya” based on an unspecified number of syntypes. It was attributed to a new subgenus Orphnebioidea established for this species. Cameron (1939) redescribed it and provided a figure of the abdomen of the male. Pace (1987) suggested that when Schubert described Gyrophaena (Orphnebioidea) he did not know the genus Encephalus , thus, it was transferred to it (this also applies to the species below). Habitus as in Fig. 1 . The studied female from ZIN apparently is a syntype belongs to the type species.

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Habitus (Figs 1, 3) and labels (Figs 2, 4) of Encephalus (Orphnebioidea): 1–2–E. (O.) rosti, 3–4–E. (O.) tuberculiventris. Scale bar: 1.0 mm.