Geostiba (Tropogastrosipalia) aequa Assing, 2011

Örgel, Semih, 2022, Two new species and additional records of the genus Geostiba Thomson, 1858 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Turkey, Zootaxa 5178 (3), pp. 285-292 : 290

Geostiba (Tropogastrosipalia) aequa Assing, 2011

Material. Turkey: 10♂♂, 16♀♀, 14.V.2019, Adana, Pozantı , 6 km E Gökbez, 37°25’30”N, 34°56’12”E, 1800 m, leg. Örgel & Köksal ; 3♂♂, 4♀♀, 14.V.2019, Adana, Pozantı , 4 km E Gökbez, 37°25’53”N, 34°55’24”E, 1437 m, leg. Örgel & Köksal ; 1♀, 14.V.2019, Adana, Karaisalı , 2 km SW Kızıldağ Yaylası, 37°24’26”N, 35°00’59”E, 1807 m, leg. Örgel & Köksal ; 9♂♂, 18♀♀, 04.V.2019, Konya, Halkapınar, 2 km S Seydifakılı, Güney Mountain , 37°26’35”N, 34°18’37”E, 1915 m, leg. Örgel & Köksal ; 1♂, 2♀♀, 20.III.2018, Konya, Halkapınar, 2 km S Seydifakılı, Güney Mountain , 37°26’35”N, 34°18’38”E, 1915 m, leg. Örgel & Yaman ; 1♂, 1♀, 13.V.2019, Konya, Halkapınar, 5 km SE Seydifakılı, Güney Mountain , 37°26’10”N, 34°20’35”E, 1844 m, leg. Örgel & Köksal ; 9♂♂, 17♀♀, 01.VI.2016, Niğde, Ulukışla, 7 km SW Madenköy, Bolkar Mountains , 37°24’56”N, 34°33’16”E, 2635 m, leg. Örgel & Yaman ; 5♂♂, 9♀♀, 13.IV.2018, Niğde, Ulukışla, 5 km SW Kılan, Güney Mountain , 37°26’42”N, 34°25’55”E, 2209 m, leg. Örgel & Yaman.

Distribution. G. aequa is known from the Adana and Niğde provinces of Turkey ( Assing 2011 f, 2013). This species is recorded for the first time from Konya province. It is most probably endemic to around the Bolkar Mountains in southern Anatolia.