Haploglossa villosula (STEPHENS 1832)

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 : 366

Haploglossa villosula (STEPHENS 1832)

Aleochara (Aleochara) hellenica PACE 2005: 278 ; syn.n.

Type material examined: Holotype ♀: Grecia nom Etol.- Akar., O. Váltou, 7.VI.2003, 2° polje NW di Perdikáki , m 1115, Giachino & Vailati / Holotypus Aleochara hellenica n. sp. det. R Pace 2004 / Aleochara hellenica n. sp. det. R Pace 2004 / Haploglossa villosula (Stephens) det. V. Assing 2005 (private collection P. M. Giachino).

C o m m e n t s: The description of Aleochara hellenica is based on a female holotype from "Etol.-Akar., O. Váltou, 2° polje NW di Perdikáki" deposited in the collection of Mauro Giachino (Torino). The details indicated in the original description, especially the illustration of the distinctive spermatheca, gave rise to the suspicion that A. hellenica was in fact a synonym of Haploglossa villosula . A subsequent examination of the holotype confirmed that it is doubtlessly conspecific with H. villosula ; hence the synonymy proposed above.

Haploglossa villosula has been recorded from Greece before ( ASSING 2005g, LÖBL & SMETANA 2004). The species is widespread and common in Europe; a recent record from China ( ASSING 2005e) shows that it is present also in the Eastern Palaearctic region.