Paraleptusa anophthalma (EPPELSHEIM)

Assing, V., 2007, Four new species and additional records of Staphylinidae from Spain (Insecta: Coleoptera), Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2), pp. 761-775 : 767-769

Paraleptusa anophthalma (EPPELSHEIM) ( Figs 41-43 , Map 1 )

Homalota (Meotica) anophthalma EPPELSHEIM 1884: 358 f.

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Lectotype: "anophthalma mihi, Sierra de Espuña, leg. Ehlers / anophthalma Epp., Deutsch. ent. Zeit. 1884, p. 358 / Collect. Eppelsheim / Typus / G. Fagel elig. 1960, Paraleptusa anophthalma Epp. , Lectotype / Paraleptusa anophthalma (Eppelsheim) det. V. Assing 2007 ( NHMW). Paralectotypes: 1: "anophthalma mihi, Sierra de Espuña ,

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leg. Ehlers / Geostiba prope caesulam Er. / Collect. Eppelsheim / Typus / Paraleptusa anophthalma (Eppelsheim) det. V. Assing 2007 ( NHMW) ; 2 [both teneral]: " Sr. Espuna, Hisp. mer., Ehlers / Eplsh. vid. / coll. Heyden / Syntypus / D.E.I. Coll. v. Heyden / Paralectotypus Homalota anophthalma Eppelsheim rev. V. Assing 2007 / Paraleptusa anophthalma (Eppelsheim) det. V. Assing 2007" ( DEI) ; 1: " Sr. Espuna, Hisp. mer., Ehlers / Epplsh. vid. / Meotica anophthalma Epp. / coll. Heyden / Homalota anophthalma Epplsh. / Syntypus / D.E.I. Coll. v. Heyden / Paralectotypus Homalota anophthalma Eppelsheim rev. V. Assing 2007 / Paraleptusa anophthalma (Eppelsheim) det. V. Assing 2007" ( DEI) .

C o m m e n t s: The original description is based on several specimens ("in mehreren Exemplaren") from the Sierra de Espuña ( EPPELSHEIM 1884). Two female types were found in the Eppelsheim collection at the NHMW ; one of them was designated as the lectotype by FAGEL (1961). Three additional paralectotypes, one male and two teneral females, were located in the collections of the DEI. In contrast to what the name may suggest and to the details indicated in the original description, the species is not anophthalmous, but the eyes are reduced to minute rudiments (without ommatidia and without pigmentation) and of similar size as in P. ripicola . The primary sexual characters are illustrated in Figs 41-43.

D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d b i o n o m i c s: The known distribution of Paraleptusa anophthalma is confined to the Sierra de Espuña ( Map 1 ); recent records are unknown. Data on the bionomics of the species are not available ( EPPELSHEIM 1884).

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Figures

Map 1: Distribution of Paraleptusa species in the Iberian Peninsula: P. ripicola (filled circles), P. spectans (open circle), P. anophthalma (square).

Figs 41-43: Paraleptusa anophthalma (EPPELSHEIM), paralectotypes: (41) median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view; (42) apical part of median lobe of aedeagus in ventral view; (43) spermatheca. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.