identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
047C8798FFA3FFECFD99F98BFB56FB86.text	047C8798FFA3FFECFD99F98BFB56FB86.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Oxytelus meinanderi SCheeRpeltZ 1974	<div><p>Oxytelus meinanderi Scheerpeltz, 1974</p><p>(Figs 1–3, 6–7, 10–13, 18–22)</p><p>Oxytelus (Anotylus) meinanderi Scheerpeltz, 1974: 7.</p><p>Oxytelus meinanderi; Herman, 2001: 1442.</p><p>Material examined – “ ♂ \ Sudan; Erkowit [18°46’N, 37°70’E] \ 18.4.1964; M. Meinander \ Oxytelus; Meinanderi; n. sp. \ Typus; Oxytelus; Meinanderi; O. Scheerpeltz [dark red card] \ ex coll.; Scheerpeltz [light blue label] \ Meinanderi; Schp. [light blue bottom card] \ Oxytelus; meinanderi Scheerpeltz; det. Makranczy, 2013 ” (major ♂ without abdomen, NHMW) ; “ ♂ \ Sudan; Erkowit \ 18.4.1964; M. Meinander \ Cotypus; Oxytelus; Meinanderi; O. Scheerpeltz [pink card] \ ex coll.; Scheerpeltz [blue label] \ Oxytelus; meinanderi Scheerpeltz; det. Makranczy, 2013 ” (minor ♂, NHMW) ; “ ♀ \ Sudan; Erkowit \ 18.4.1964; M. Meinander \ Oxytelus; Meinanderi; n. sp. \ Typus; Oxytelus; Meinanderi; O. Scheerpeltz [dark red card] \ ex coll.; Scheerpeltz [blue label] \ Oxytelus; meinanderi Scheerpeltz; det. Makranczy, 2013 ” (1 ♀, NHMW) .</p><p>Redescription – Measurements (in mm, ♂): HW = 0.97; TW = 1.00; PW = 1.00; SW = 0.94; AW = 1.00; HL = 0.61; EL = 0.28; TL = 0.31; PL = 0.73; SL = 0.90; SC = 0.82; FB = 2.53; BL = 4.83; (♀): HW = 0.76; TW = 0.73; PW = 0.82; SW = 0.82; AW = 0.95; HL = 0.50; EL = 0.26; TL = 0.22; PL = 0.63; SL = 0.81; SC = 0.73; FB = 2.13; BL = 4.53. Body moderately lustrous, mostly testaceous, reddish with darker head and elytra yellowish. Head reddish dark brown, supra- antennal ridges and clypeus somewhat lighter, pronotum reddish medium brown, elytra yellowish medium brown, rest of body medium brown. With a few stronger setae not differing markedly from body colour.</p><p>Male (Fig. 1). Head surface dominated by strong and dense punctation intermixed with costate microsculpture (sometimes with rugulose parts), with only the elevated parts of supraantennal tubercles and most of clypeus free of it: these with colliculate microsculpture. Clypeus side and indistinct posterior borders form an almost perfect circle marked by darker colour. A more or less longitudinal line connecting upper/posterior edge of eye with the neck. Anterior margins of supraantennal ridges straight and oblique, meeting straight anterior edge with two tiny, shallow incisions. Vertex with conspicuous midlongitudinal suture connecting tip of reverse V-shaped occipital suture (os) with impressed V-shaped area behind clypeus; latter transversally impressed on anterior part. Nuchal ridge (nr) inconspicuous, slightly darker, paralateral sutures (ps) absent. Antenna of type II: antennomere 4 with basal dish (Fig. 3); first antennomere insignificantly twitched.</p><p>Pronotum 3-sulcate, median sulcus (ms) and paramedial sulcus (pms) medium strongly impressed, the latter wider, paralateral depressions (pld) medium strongly depressed along a curved, oblique line, lateral marginal bead (lmb) apparent on posterior and side margins, marked by a dark brown line. Surface only moderately glabrous with costate microsculpture, more shiny on elevated areas, in sulci and depressions with rough and irregular microsculpture.</p><p>Elytra moderately glabrous, dominated by medium coarse costate microsculpture, in the outer 1/3 a few thin but slightly elevated thread-like costae. Epipleural ridge (er) present, continues dorsally in a posterior marginal bead, stronger in outer half, membranous lobe apparent in outer half pulled out at 3/5 width from suture. Lateral longitudinal ridge (llr) apparent and marked by a slightly darker line.</p><p>Legs with three-segmented tarsi (tarsal formula 3–3–3) with second article just a little shorter than first, third elongate but not flattened. Tibiae with rows of spinules and more acute, darker spines mostly along two longitudinal keels. Protibia distinctly constricted in outer 1/4, the double row consists of some 5 and 6 spines, interrupted at pre-apical emargination. Mesotibia slightly emarginate in outer 1/4, double row consisting of some 5 and 9 spines, interrupted pre-apically. Metatibia with two longitudinal keels, row of some 7 smaller spines on one while the other bears a longitudinal ctenidium of spinules in outer 3/5 of tibial length. All tibiae with a distinct spur at 2/5 of length.</p><p>Abdomen not pubescent (except sparse spurs), somewhat constricted at base but rather parallel-sided, tergites with very fine coriaceous microsculpture of isodiametric cells.</p><p>Primary and secondary sexual characters. Male temples rather enlarged and broadened, strongly developed specimen as on Fig. 2. Female temples much shorter, not exceeding half the length of the eye, their width less than head width at eye. Male sternite VII (Fig. 18) with posterior margin very gently sinuate in middle without other peculiar modifications. Male sternite VIII (Fig. 19) with basal ridge (br) more or less straight and thin, subbasal ridge (sbr) gently produced (anteriorly incurved) in middle, these of the same formation in females (Fig. 21). Male sternite VIII (Fig. 6) with apical median plate (Fig. 7) fully developed, bordering incisions with length 1/3 of total plate length, transverse carina (tc) present, mid-longitudinal internal ridge (mlir) like a closed ring, rather elongate, about 1/4 of plate length. Male tergite X as on Fig. 20, female tergite X as on Fig. 22. Aedeagus as on Figs 10-12, spermatheca (Fig. 13) hook- like, rightly angulate in middle, basal portion (bsp) bulbous, apical portion (app) slightly curved.</p><p>Distribution – The hereby mentioned locality in Sudan is the only known record.</p><p>Remarks – Scheerpeltz (1974) lists 1 male holotypus, 1 female allotypus, 1 male paratypus, 1 female paratypus and a further male paratypus with slightly different data: “ Sudan, Erkowit, 19.IV.1964, leg. J. Kaisila ” as type material. It is clear from the labelling that the only complete (minor) male was not meant to be the holotype; it could have been the major male that is now without abdomen (when still intact), but there is a further male indicated in the description as well as another female, their whereabouts or fate unknown. Treating the incomplete major male as holotype has to be done with caution as Scheerpeltz was known to give false information in some of his papers and in a great many of cases labelled type specimens very confusingly, so it cannot be taken for granted that one of the missing specimens is not in fact the holotype. The present author has recently dealt with type material from the same publication and it appeared there (Makranczy 2013) that the primary type specimen indicated to be in Helsinki was simply not sent there although it is stated to be in the collection according to the list of Silfverberg (1988). The situation with the type material of O. meinanderi seems to be different as two of the originally listed specimens appear to be absent – could be either sent and lost or misplaced in Helsinki (Muona, pers. comm.), but there is still chance that the missing material eventually turns up somewhere, either in Wien or Helsinki. In the present situation – pending further information – the type material surviving in NHMW is best left ‘as is’. The major and minor males do not differ in their morphology significantly, only in their sizes.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/047C8798FFA3FFECFD99F98BFB56FB86	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.		Plazi	Makranczy, György	Makranczy, György (2014): Oxytelus Meinanderi Scheerpeltz, 1974 And O. Tuberculifrons Eichelbaum, 1913, Two Afrotropical Species With Problematic Type Material (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 60 (1): 1-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5732130
047C8798FFA4FFE0FDA5FBCBFBAFFAB1.text	047C8798FFA4FFE0FDA5FBCBFBAFFAB1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Oxytelus tuberculifrons Eichelbaum 1913	<div><p>Oxytelus tuberculifrons Eichelbaum, 1913</p><p>(Figs 4–5, 8–9, 14–17, 23–27)</p><p>Oxytelus tuberculifrons Eichelbaum, 1913: 118 .</p><p>Oxytelus tuberculifrons; Herman, 1970: 411.</p><p>Oxytelus tuberculifrons; Herman, 2001: 1461.</p><p>Material examined – “ N.W. Usagara; lg. Methner. \ ♀ \ Chicago NHMus; M. Bernhauer; Collection \ Oxytelus; tuberculifrons; Eichelbaum \ Oxytelus; tuberculifrons Eichelbaum; det. Makranczy, 2013 ” (1 ♀, FMNH); “ N.W. Usagara; 1700-1900 m.; 15.I.II.1912 \ ♂ \ D. Ostafrika; Daressalam; Methner \ fortior Brh.; Typ. \ tuberculifrons; det. Bernhau[er]; Eich.? \ Chicago NHMus; M. Bernhauer; Collection \ Oxytelus; tuberculifrons Eichelbaum; det. Makranczy, 2013 ” (1 ♂ without head and pronotum, FMNH).</p><p>Redescription – Measurements (in mm, ♀): HW = 0.65; TW = 0.62; PW = 0.79; SW = 0.85; AW = 0.93; HL = 0.38; EL = 0.22; TL = 0.09; PL = 0.59; SL = 0.76; SC = 0.66; FB = 1.80; BL = 3.30. Body rather lustrous, generally testaceous with a few conspicuous dark brown setae: head dark brown with reddish tint, supra- antennal tubercles lighter, pronotum reddish medium to dark brown, deflexed lateral margin darker, blackish, elytra somewhat lighter, yellowish medium brown, slightly transparent, outer posterior corners sometimes with slight opaque spots, scutellar area to the shoulders slightly darker, infuscate. Abdomen dark brown with reddish tint, tarsi, tibiae and apices of femora medium to light brown, outer part of coxae, femora except the apex much lighter, whitish-yellowish, antennae and mouthparts reddish medium brown.</p><p>Female (Fig. 4). Head glabrous, sparsely punctate, punctures more or less arranged in longitudinal rows. Clypeus side and indistinct posterior borders form an almost perfect circle marked by darker colour, epistomal suture incomplete posteriorly. Anterior margins of supra- antennal ridges straight and oblique, meeting straight anterior edge with two tiny, shallow incisions. Vertex more or less flat with just a trace of depression in the middle, clypeus transversally impressed on anterior part. Occipital suture (os) deep but more narrow in middle, nuchal ridge (nr) only in traces, marked by slightly darker line. Paralateral sutures (ps) and midlongitudinal suture absent. Antenna of type I: antennomere 4 subglobose, without basal dish (Fig. 5); first antennomere slightly twitched, fifth article of transverse oval-discoid shape.</p><p>Pronotum 3-sulcate, median sulcus (ms) and paramedial sulcus (pms) gently impressed, the latter wider, paralateral depressions (pld) slightly depressed along a curved, oblique line, lateral marginal bead (lmb) apparent on posterior and side margins, marked by a blackish line, pronotum infuscate on extreme posterior part next to it. Surface glabrous with variously sized punctures, latter more dense in sulci then on elevated areas.</p><p>Elytra glabrous, but with variously sized punctures, the large punctures somewhat arranged into longitudinal lines, in outer 1/3 a few longitudinal ridges (uninterrupted by punctures) are obvious. Some of the punctures appear confluent. Epipleural ridge (er) present, continues dorsally in a posterior marginal bead, thin but apparent on whole width, membranous lobe apparent in outer half pulled out at 3/5 width from suture, lateral longitudinal ridge (llr) apparent and marked by a slightly darker line.</p><p>Legs with three-segmented tarsi (tarsal formula 3–3–3) with first article much longer than second, almost as long as the very elongate third, none flattened. Tibiae with rows of spinules and blunt, darker spines mostly along two longitudinal keels. Protibia distinctly constricted in outer 1/3, the double row of consists of some 4 and 5 spines, interrupted at pre-apical emargination. Mesotibia slightly emarginate in outer 1/3, double row consists of some 5 and 9 spines, interrupted pre-apically. Metatibia with two longitudinal keels, row of some 6–7 smaller spines on one while the other bears a longitudinal ctenidium of spinules in outer 3/5 of tibial length. All tibiae with a distinct spur at 2/5 of length.</p><p>Abdomen not pubescent (except sparse spurs), broadest at 5th and 6th segment, tergites with very fine coriaceous microsculpture of slightly transverse cells.</p><p>Primary and secondary sexual characters. Male head and pronotum unknown. Male sternite VII (Fig. 23) with posterior margin more or less straight but the more sclerotized plate broadly produced in middle, thereby surrounding a membranous portion in a segmental arch (Fig. 9). Male sternite VIII (Fig. 24) with basal ridge (br) more or less straight and thin, subbasal ridge (sbr) very gently sinuate (posteriorly outcurved) in middle, these of the same formation in females (Fig. 26). Male sternite VIII with apical median plate not so distinct (on Fig. 8), but a transverse carina (tc) present, mid-longitudinal internal ridge (mlir) U-shaped, arms rather extended, but strongly sclerotized part only 1/4 of sternite length. Male tergite X as on Fig. 25, female tergite X as on Fig. 27. Aedeagus as on Figs 14-16, spermatheca (Fig. 17) hook- like, basal portion (bsp) bulbous, apical portion (app) slightly curved.</p><p>Distribution – The original type locality is “Amani” (nature reserve) [a once popular German resort, Tanga region, Tanzania, 5°05’S, 58°40’E], but here also recorded from “NW Usagara (Ost-Usambara)” [=Misungwi district, Mwanza region, Tanzania, 2°55’S, 32°50’E].</p><p>Remarks – The collection of Felix Eichelbaum is known to have perished in the bombing of Hamburg during WWII. In the knowledge of the overwhelming diversity of Oxytelus in the Afrotropics a missing original type material instantly places the respective taxon on the shortlist for a taxonomic revision. Of all the species Eichelbaum originally named in Oxytelus, only O. tuberculifrons belongs in this genus according to the current generic concept. The description is stated to be based on one female, with its loss there is no possibly surviving type material to search for. Although it is not documented or suggested anywhere in the literature that Max Bernhauer, the Austrian titan of Staphylinidae taxonomy of the time have examined Eichelbaum’s material, it is without question that he assembled the most significant collection of Staphylinidae in the first half of the XXth Century. Bernhauer’ s collection is preserved in the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH) to where it was sold after his death. In it remained one female specimen of Oxytelus identified as O. tuberculifrons, and an incomplete male marked as ‘ Oxytelus fortior ’, an unpublished name. This second specimen is missing the head and pronotum but besides coming from the same locality as the aforementioned female bears a later determination label by Bernhauer as O. tuberculifrons . There is little doubt that the two specimens belong to the same species. As this material appears to be the only authentic one, the name O. tuberculifrons is here interpreted based on these two exemplars, but for obvious reasons a neotype designation for the only complete specimen, a female, is undesirable; this is best done when an intact male specimen becomes available. The taxon has not received any taxonomic treatment since its description. Subsequent studies within the Afrotropics did not mention this species. The original description offers little information of diagnostic value, but the statements there have no significant contradiction with the features of the female specimen.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/047C8798FFA4FFE0FDA5FBCBFBAFFAB1	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.		Plazi	Makranczy, György	Makranczy, György (2014): Oxytelus Meinanderi Scheerpeltz, 1974 And O. Tuberculifrons Eichelbaum, 1913, Two Afrotropical Species With Problematic Type Material (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 60 (1): 1-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5732130
