identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
1D005EE5AADB5B4B9B68F23AC6572B38.text	1D005EE5AADB5B4B9B68F23AC6572B38.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Anapleus pescheli Lackner 2026	<div><p>Anapleus pescheli sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6</p><p>Type locality.</p><p>Greece: Peloponnesus, south of Diakopto.</p><p>Type material examined.</p><p>Holotype: • ♂, side-mounted on triangular mounting card, genitalia extracted and glued to the same card as specimen, with the following labels: ‘ ♂ (printed) || Greece: Peloponnes, S Diakopto | <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=15.25&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.366" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 15.25/lat 40.366)">Straße nach Kalavrita</a>, 38°07'44" – | 10 '26"N, 22°11'49" - 14'17"E, 50–850 m, Bachtal, Macchie, AK, | 2. IV. 2016, leg. M. Schülke (printed) || HOLOTYPE (vertically written) | Anapleus pescheli | spec. nov. | Det. T. Lackner 2025 ' [MFNB] . Paratypes: Greece • 10 exs., sex undetermined, same data as holotype [6 exs. MFNB, 4 exs. CTLA]. • 1 ♂ + 4 exs., with the following labels: ‘ Greece: Arta, Athamánon Óros | Umg. Skoúpa, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=15.25&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.366" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 15.25/lat 40.366)">Autokescher</a>, | 39°23'14" – 24'12"N, 21°00'52" – | 02'18"E, 285–650 m, 18. IV. 2018, | leg. M. Schülke [GR 18-13]; || red paratype label identical to the holotype label [3 exs. MFNB, 2 exs. CTLA] . • 3 ♂♂ + 20 exs., with the following labels: ‘ Greece: Peloponnes, S Diakopto | <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=15.25&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.366" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 15.25/lat 40.366)">Straße nach Kalavrita</a>, 38°08'11" – | 10'26"N, 22°14'00" – 17"E, 500 m, Bachtal, Macchie, Autokescher, | 6. IV. 2016, leg. M. Schülke (printed); followed by red paratype label identical to the holotype label [15 exs. MFNB, 4 exs. CTLA, 4 exs. CFP] . • 1 ♀, with the following labels: ‘ GR: Kokouli | 39,873°N, 20,763°E Gr 274 G | 28. v. 1998 700 m | leg. O. Vorst | Gorge, flood refuse’ (light yellow label, printed); || ‘ Anapleus / wewalkai Olexa | det. O. Vorst 2022 ' (light yellow label, printed); || red paratype label [RMNH] . 1 ♂, with the following labels: ‘ GR, Peloponnes | Vetaika, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=15.25&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.366" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 15.25/lat 40.366)">Bodenf</a> | 2.5. - 9. 11. 2022 | leg. Manfred Egger’ (black-framed label, printed); || ‘ Anapleus raddei | (Reitter, 1877) | det. R. Peschel’ (black-framed label, printed); || red paratype label [NMHW, Peschel collection]. • 1 ex., with the following labels: ‘ Grèce Epire | <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=15.25&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.366" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 15.25/lat 40.366)">près de Anemorrachi</a> | 400 m 2. v. [19] 73 | Löbl (printed-written) || Anapleus | raddei Reitt. | leg. S. Mazur 1976 (printed-written) || Mus. Ginevre (written); followed by the red paratype label [MHNG] . Italy • 1 ♂, with extracted genitalia, glued to the same mounting card as the specimen, with the following labels: ‘ ♂ (written) || I. Sic. Gibelmanna | S. Lundberg (printed) || Anapleus | wewalkai Olexa | Y. Gomy – Det. 2003 ' (printed-written) [MHNG] . • 1 ♀, with the following labels: ‘ IT: Felitto, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=15.25&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.366" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 15.25/lat 40.366)">Calore</a> | 40,366°N, 15,250°E It 518 K | 20. iv. 2008 191 m | leg. O. Vorst | Montane river’ (light yellow label, printed); || ‘ Anapleus / wewalkai Olexa | det. O. Vorst 2022 ' (light yellow label, printed); || red paratype label [RMNH] . • 1 ♂, 1 ♀ + 1 ex., with the following labels: ‘ CAMPANIA – 11. iv. 2004 | <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=15.25&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.366" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 15.25/lat 40.366)">tra Rofrano e Sanza</a> (SA) | car-net A. Zanetti legit’ (printed); || ‘ Anapleus | cfr. wewalkai Olexa | det. Fabio Penati, 2005 ' (black-framed label, printed); followed by red paratype label [CPV] . • 1 ex., labels identical to the preceding specimen [CND] . • 4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ + 21 exs., same data as preceding, but MSNG [3 exs. CTLA; 3 exs. CFP] . • 1 ex, ibid, but NMPC . • 1 ♂, genitalia extracted, glued to the same triangular mounting card as the specimen, left mesotarsus broken off, glued to the same mounting card as the specimen, right mid-leg missing, right metatibia missing, with the following labels: ‘ ♂ ’ (written); || ‘ Calabria (CS) | Grisolia, 700 mt. loc. | <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=15.25&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.366" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 15.25/lat 40.366)">Pantanelle</a>, 8 / V / 94 | Legit. F. Montemurro’ (written); || ‘ Anapleus | wewalkai Olexa | Y. Gomy - Det. 1999 ' (light-green, black-framed printed / written label); followed by red paratype label [CPV] .</p><p>Diagnostic description.</p><p>Body (Figs 1, 2): APW: 0.49–0.56 mm; PPW: 1.14–1.21 mm; EW: 1.34–1.39 mm; EL: 1.22–1.31 mm; PEL: 1.74–1.87 mm. A typical Anapleus, colour of pronotum and elytra light to dark brown, covered with rather regular, deep, round punctures separated by 1.0–2.5 times their diameter.</p><p>Head densely punctate, punctures largest medially, separated by 0.5 × their diameter, supra-orbital area impunctate; frons depressed medially, concave. Epistoma subquadrate, larger than frons, punctation finer and sparser, punctures separated by approximately twice their diameter. Labrum semicircular, minutely punctate, each labral pit with a single seta. Rest of mouthparts not examined. Antennal scape long, approximately four times as long as pedicel; antennomeres III – VII approximately as long as antennal club; intersegmental sutures between antennomeres VIII – XI present.</p><p>Pronotum faint pronotal depressions present; lateral margin almost straight, sides strongly narrowing apically; on basal third lateral margin slightly bisinuate; marginal pronotal stria present, slightly carinate, weakened apically. Pronotal disk laterally with coarse and large punctures becoming very sparse and almost microscopic medially. Pronotal hypomeron glabrous.</p><p>Elytra marginal elytral stria complete, slightly carinate; dorsal elytral striae I – II very faint, present on basal elytral half; humeral stria very faintly impressed on basal fourth; other striae missing. Elytral suture slightly elevated. Elytral disk evenly covered with large round deep punctures separated by their approximate diameter, not becoming finer or smaller basally or apically.</p><p>Pygidia normal, punctate, punctures separated by about their diameter (propygidium) or sparser (pygidium), apically punctures evanescent.</p><p>Prosternum (Figs 2, 3) very broad, prosternal lobe broadly rounded, punctate, process with widely separated subparallel carinal prosternal striae; their apical ends curved inwardly. Prosternal process apico-medially with large, deep elongate punctures.</p><p>Meso-metaventrite (Figs 2, 3) typical for the genus; marginal mesoventral stria not discernible; lateral metaventral stria straight, carinate, shortened apically. Intercoxal disk of metaventrite medially strongly convex (in male; in female much less so) here punctures finer than laterally. Meso-metaventral sutural stria undulate, slightly distanced from meso-metaventral suture.</p><p>First visible abdominal sternite completely striate laterally; punctuation of disc finer and sparser than that of metaventrite.</p><p>Legs unmodified, typical for Anapleus .</p><p>Male genitalia. Aedeagus tube-like, subparallel, parameres “ open ” on their apical third (Figs 5, 6). Apical third of aedeagus depressed, thinner than the rest (well visible from lateral view).</p><p>Differential diagnosis.</p><p>Anapleus pescheli sp. nov. has been confused with A. wewalkai . It differs from it chiefly by the evenly, densely punctate basal elytral third, especially the area around scutellum (compare Figs 1, 13). Furthermore, the median part of metaventrite of A. wewalkai is covered with scattered microscopic punctures (Fig. 4), while that of A. pescheli is more coarsely punctuated (Fig. 3). The aedeagi of the two species are different in lateral view. The aedeagus of A. pescheli is distinctly convex medially and strongly tapering apically (Fig. 6). The aedeagus of A. wewalkai tapers evenly from approximate half-length (Fig. 10) and lacks any median convexity. From two other congeners A. pescheli differs as follows: from A. jelineki by the darker colouration of the cuticle (compare Figs 1, 17), distanced meso-metaventral sutural stria from the actual meso-metaventral suture (compare Figs 3, 19), but mainly by the absence of depressed setose patch on metaventral base (compare Figs 2, 18; only in male?). The aedeagi of the two species are likewise different: while they are slightly similar from ventral view, aedeagus of A. jelineki is distinctly curved from lateral view, while that of A. pescheli is not (compare Figs 5, 6 to Figs 7, 8); and, lastly, from A. raddei, A. pescheli differs by the darker cuticle, even coarser elytral punctation (compare Figs 1, 15), and distanced meso-metaventral stria from the actual meso-metaventral suture (compare Figs 3, 20), but especially by the shape of aedeagus: that of A. raddei is rather thick with parameres widely open from approximate mid-length; that of A. pescheli is much thinner, with parameres open on their approximate apical third (compare Figs 11, 12 to Figs 5, 6).</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>Olexa’s (1982; redrawn here) illustrations of Anapleus aedeagi are somewhat schematic in that he omits the median lobe (duct). While it is not as apparent in A. jelineki or A. wewalkai, this structure is evident in A. raddei and is completely missing in his drawing of this species. It is unknown whether this was done on purpose or whether the median lobe is actually absent from the specimen from Romania on which he based his drawings.</p><p>Biology.</p><p>Unknown. All specimens were collected by sifting forest debris or flood refuse near a montane river; specimens were also collected using car-netting technique.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Greece (Central Greece, Peloponnesus); Italy: Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Sicily.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D005EE5AADB5B4B9B68F23AC6572B38	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Lackner, Tomáš	Lackner, Tomáš (2026): Anapleus pescheli, a new endogean species from Italy and Greece with the key to Western Palaearctic species (Coleoptera, Histeridae, Dendrophilinae, Anapleini). ZooKeys 1280: 321-331, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1280.187654
