Pella jureceki (DVOŘÁK, 1981)

Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lomechusini from the Palaearctic region, primarily from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2), pp. 243-262 : 256

Pella jureceki (DVOŘÁK, 1981)

( Figs 58–60 )

Material examined: China: Gansu: 57 exs., Lenglong Ling mountains, 60 km NNW Honggu, Jin Sha Gorge , 36°52'N, 102°39'E, 2330 m, mixed forest, litter and moss sifted, 12.VII.2011, leg. Schülke & Wrase (cSch, cAss) ; 3 exs., same data, but 14.–15.VII.2011 (cSch, cAss) ; 6 exs., same data, but pitfall traps, 12.–13.VII.2011, leg. Wrase (cSch, cAss) . Qinghai: 1 ex., Daban Shan , 62 km NNW Honggum, 36°51'N, 102°37'E, 2240–2350 m, litter and moss sifted, 10.VII.2011, leg. Schülke (cSch) ; 49 exs., same data, but 26.VI.2011, leg. Schülke (cSch, cAss) ; 9 exs., same data, but 2350 m (cSch, cAss) ; 26 exs., same data, but 2275 m, litter sifted, 26.VI.2011, leg. Wrase (cSch, cAss) .

Comment: Pella jureceki was previously known from the Russian Far East, Korea, and the Chinese province Beijing. According to the redescription by MARUYAMA (2006), the species is “blackish brown in ground colour”, but all the examined specimens are completely black. The primary sexual characters of the material from Gansu are illustrated in Figs 58–60 . The specimens listed above were collected together with P. cooterorum (in all localities), in Qinghai also with P. zhoui and in Gansu with P. lugens . Unlike P. cooterorum , P. jureceki was almost exclusively sifted from leaf litter.

Figures

Figs 46–64: Pella reuteri (46–47), P. lugens from Gansu (48–49), P. cooterorum from Qinghai (50–51, 54), Gansu (55), Yunnan: Dongchuan env. (52, 56), and Yunnan: Kunming env. (53, 57), P. jureceki from Gansu (58–60), and P. zhoui from Qinghai (61–64): median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (46–53, 58–59, 61–62); spermatheca (54–57, 60, 63–64). Scale bars: 0.2 mm.