Aleochara (Ceranota) bodemeyeri BERNHAUER

Assing, Volker, 2007, On the Aleocharini of Turkey, with notes on some species from adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 57 (1), pp. 177-209 : 189-190

Aleochara (Ceranota) bodemeyeri BERNHAUER ,, 1914 ( Figs 41-45 )

AleocharaAleochara (Ceranota) bodemeyeri BERNHAUER ,, 1914: 43.

Type material examined:

Syntype ♀: Asia Minor, Goek-Dagh, v. Bodemeyer / libanica Epp. det. Bernhauer / Bodemeyeri Brnh. Typus / Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Coll . / Syntypus ♀ Aleochara bodemeyeri Bernhauer rev. V. Assing 2006 ( FMNH) .

Comments:

The original description is based on two syntypes, both of which are probably females: „Geschlechtsauszeichnungen treten an den vorliegenden Stücken nicht hervor“ (BERNHAUER,, 1914). Only one of these syntypes was found in the Bernhauer collection at the FMNH; the depository of the second type specimen is unknown. Since there is a slight chance that the second syntype may eventually be found and turn out to be a small male without apparent secondary sexual characters, the above female is not designated as the lectotype.

Additional material examined: Turkey, Bolu: 1 ex., Abant Gölü, 20.V.1987, leg. Schönmann & Schillhammer ( NMW) .

Redescription:

Measurements (in mm) and ratios (syntype): AL: 1.10; HL: 0.50; HW: 0.45; PW: 0.66; PL: 0.54; EL: 0.45; EW: 0.79; AW: 0.79; TiL: 0.60; TaL: 0.47; TL: 3.9; HL/HW: 1.10; PW/HW: 1.47; PW/PL: 1.22; EL/PL: 0.83; EW/PW: 1.18; AW/EW: 1.00; TiL/TaL: 1.29.

Coloration: head and abdomen, except for the posterior margins of the segments and the apex, blackish; pronotum reddish brown; elytra reddish; legs dark yellowish; antennae reddish.

Habitus as in Fig. 41 . Head oblong (see ratio HL/HW); clypeus unmodified; puncturation fine and sparse; interstices with shallow microsculpture. Eyes moderately large, slightly shorter than postocular region in dorsal view ( Fig. 42 ). Antennae distinctly incrassate; preapical antennomeres more than 1.5 times as wide as long ( Fig. 43 ).

Pronotum moderately large and moderately transverse (see ratios PW/HW and PW/PL), widest approximately in the middle; puncturation rather dense, but very shallow, fine, and rather ill-defined; interstices with very shallow microsculpture ( Fig. 42 ).

Elytra distinctly wider and at suture shorter than pronotum (see ratios EW/PW and EL/PL); posterior margin near posterior angles sinuate; puncturation dense and somewhat granulose; microsculpture absent. Metatarsus rather short and stout (see measurements); metatarsomere I almost as long as the combined length of II-IV.

Abdomen with segments III-VI subparallel; tergites III-V with rather deep anterior impressions, anterior impression of tergite VI practically obsolete; puncturation distinct and moderately sparse, present also in anterior impressions of tergite III-V; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe ( Fig. 44 ).

♂: unknown.

♀: posterior margin of tergite VIII weakly, that of sternite VIII moderately convex; spermatheca as in Fig. 45 .

Comparative notes:

Among its Turkish consubgeners, the species is characterised especially by the combination of small size, oblong head, the presence of shallow microsculpture on head and pronotum, incrassate antennae with distinctly transverse preapical antennomers, the dense and granulosely punctured elytra, as well as the presence of punctures in the anterior impressions of the abdominal tergites III-V.

Distribution and bionomics:

So far only the two type specimens from the “Goek Dagh” and one additional specimen from Bolu in northwestern Anatolia have become known. The examined female syntype had two mature eggs in the ovaries .

Figures

Figs 41-45: Aleochara bodemeyeribodemeyeri (syntype): habitus (41); forebody (42); antenna (43); abdomen (44); spermatheca (45). Scale bars: 41: 1.0 mm; 42, 44: 0.5 mm; 43: 0.2 mm; 45: 0.1 mm.