Torneuma (Torneuma)

Fancello, Luca, Hernando, Carles & Leo, Piero, 2009, The endogean beetle fauna of the Marganai-Oridda-Valle del Leni area (SW Sardinia), with description of seven new species of Staphylinidae Leptotyphlinae (Coleoptera) *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 317-338 : 333

Torneuma (Torneuma) sp.

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Literature data. Domusnovas (Carbonia-Iglesias prov.), Gutturu di Monte Nieddu, 290 m ( Fancello & Leo 1991). Iglesias (Carbonia-Iglesias prov.), Mamenga ( Magrini et al. 2006; Magrini & Fancello 2007).

Unpublished data. Domusnovas ( Carbonia-Iglesias prov. ), Gutturu di Monte Nieddu , 290-330 m, 18.IX.1985, 1.X.1985, 25.X.1985, 10.I.1986, 13.IV.1990, 12.III.2007, leg. L. Fancello & P. Leo, 20 ex (CLF- PL). Domusnovas (Carbonia-Iglesias prov.), Valle di Oridda, 570 m, 12.II.1992, leg. L. Fancello & P. Leo, 3 ex ( CLF-PL) . Iglesias (Carbonia-Iglesias prov.), Mamenga, 430 m, 1.III.2006, leg. L. Fancello, 1 ex (CLF- PL) . Villacidro (Medio Campidano prov.), Foresta Demaniale di Montimannu, 280 m, 8.V.1986, leg. P. Leo, 1 ex ( CLF-PL) . Villacidro (Medio Campidano prov.), San Sisinnio, 250 m, 27.IV.1986, 8.V.1986, 15.III.1987, 9.XII.1989, 7.V.1991, 4.IV.2007, leg. P. Leo, 14 ex ( CLF-PL) .

Distribution. Probably a Sardinian endemic.

Notes. Collected by hand and with the Berlese method, in open habitats and in woodland and Mediterranean maquis. Pending a full revision of the genus (cf. Colonnelli & Osella 2009) it was impossible to identify these specimens to species.