Leptobium, Casey, 1905

Anlaş, Sinan, 2017, A new species and new country records for the genus Leptobium Casey in the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Zootaxa 4338 (1), pp. 173-181 : 180-181

Key to the Turkish species of the genus Leptobium

The keys to Turkish Leptobium species in Assing (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010b) and Anlaş (2012) are modified as follows:

1. Elytra posteriorly with yellowish spots, anteriorly blackish. From Canary Islands to Middle Asia.... L. gracile (Gravenhorst)

- Elytra posteriorly without yellowish spots................................................................. 2.

2. Pronotum reddish.................................................................................... 3.

- Pronotum blackish.................................................................................... 6.

3. Larger species; body length>8.0 mm..................................................................... 4.

- Smaller species; body length <7.5 mm .................................................................... 5.

4. Body length> 8.5 mm. Southwestern Anatolia: Antalya, Muğla .................................. L. carinatum Assing

- Body length 8 mm. Central southern Anatolia : Karaman ...................................... L. nabozhenkoi Anlaş

5. Ventral process of aedeagus pointed apically. Southwestern Anatolia: Antalya ........................ L. mutabile Assing

- Ventral process aedeagus apically rounded apically. Central southeastern Anatolia : Gaziantep, Kilis ..... L. geminum Assing

6. Elytra blackish. Western Anatolia: İzmir, Manisa ........................................... L. bozdaghense Assing

- Elytra reddish....................................................................................... 7.

7. Body length> 8.5 mm ................................................................................. 8.

- Body length <7.5 mm ................................................................................ 10.

8. Dorsal plate of aedeagus moderately long and with almost straight lateral margins, with distinct median carina dorsally. Wide- spread from Slovenia to southern Turkey.................................................. L. illyricum (Erichson)

- Aedeagus of different morphology; dorsal plate either without dorsal carina, or with pair of carinae................... 9.

9. Both margins of dorsal plate of aedeagus more or less distinctive. Southern Anatolia : Antalya ........ L. wunderlei Bordoni

- Only one margin of dorsal plate of aedeagus distinctive. From southern Turkey to Israel and in Cyprus....................................................................................................... L. syriacum (Saulcy)

10. Dorsal plate of aedeagus with pair of distinct dorsal carinae................................................... 11.

- Dorsal plate of aedeagus with one dorsal carinae........................................................... 12.

11. Ventral process of aedeagus strongly asymmetric. Central southeastern Anatolia : Hatay................ L. schuelkei Assing

- Ventral process of aedeagus slightly asymmetric. Central southeastern Anatolia : Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis ..................................................................................................... L. bicarinatum Assing

12. Dorsal plate of aedeagus symmetrical.................................................................... 13.

- Dorsal plate of aedeagus asymmetrical................................................................... 14.

13. Ventral process of aedeagus more transverse, strongly asymmetric. Northern Anatolia : Sinop ........... L. ponticum Assing

- Ventral process of aedeagus weakly transverse, almost symmetrical. Ukrania: Crimea and Turkey: Bursa, İzmir................................................................................................ L. tauricum Gusarov

14. Aedeagus with weakly asymmetric ventral process......................................................... 15.

- Aedeagus with distinctly asymmetric ventral process....................................................... 16.

15. Elytra reddish, with the anterior margin infuscate. Dorsal plate of the aedeagus long. Central Anatolia: Ankara.................................................................................................... L. yagmuri sp. n.

- Elytra uniformly reddish. Dorsal plate of the aedeagus short. Southern Anatolia : Antalya, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, Osmaniye .............................................................................. L. assingi Bordoni

16. Aedeagus with apically abruptly narrowed. Central northern Anatolia : Çankırı ...................... L. ilgazicum Assing

- Aedeagus with apically not abruptly narrowed. Western Anatolia: Manisa ............................. L. anlasi Assing