Leptusa meschniggi BERNHAUER 1935

Assing, V., 2006, New species and records of Staphylinidae from Greece, with two new synonymies (Insecta: Coleoptera), Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1), pp. 333-379 : 338

Leptusa meschniggi BERNHAUER 1935

The type locality is situated in the "Perister", a synonym of the Oros Varnous, which crosses the border between Macedonia and Greece; so, it is unknown if the types were collected in the Macedonian or the Greek part of the mountain range. The specimens listed in Tab. 1 were compared with the holotype (NHMW) and represent the first confirmation of the presence of the species in Greece. The holotype has a pronounced median carina on the abdominal tergite VII; this carina, however, is missing in the illustration of the holotype in PACE (1989: fig. 452). The only other published locality of L. meschniggi is "Sandanaki" in western Bulgaria ( PACE 1989).