Tasgius cf. rubripennis (REICHE & SAULCY, 1856)

Assing, V., 2014, On the Staphylinidae of Israel II, with a revision of some species of Dinusa SAULCY (Insecta: Coleoptera), Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (2), pp. 1179-1210 : 1189

Tasgius cf. rubripennis (REICHE & SAULCY, 1856)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: cf. rubripennis sp. 1: Israel: 1, Berekhat Ya'ar , 32°25'N, 34°45'E, 10 m, shore of pond, pitfall, 17.III.2010, leg. Drees (cAss) ; 1, Berekhat Ya'ar , ca. 32°25'N, 34°54'E, 17.II.2010, leg. Starke (cFel) ; 1, Hula N.R., 33°04'N, 35°36'E, 65 m, shore of pond, 8.IV.2010, leg. Drees (cAss) ; 1, Berekhat Ramadanr, 26.II.2010, leg. Drees (cFel). Turkey: 1, Mersin, Anamur , 4.-17.VI.1993, leg. Eichler (cAss). Cyprus: 1, 7 km SW Polis, 11.XII.1988, leg. Grimm & Rachinsky (cSch) .

cf. rubripennis sp. 2: Israel: 1, 2 km NW Gesher, 32°38'26''N, 35°31'27''E, 250 m, pitfall, 21.II.2011, leg. Drees (cAss); 1, Upper Galilee, Ziv'on, 33°01'N, 35°25'E, 715 m, pitfall, 10.I.2006 (cFel); 1, Merom Golan, 12.VI.2000, leg. Chikatunov (TAU). C o m m e n t: The type material of T. rubripennis (type locality: "Des bords du Jourdain") has not been subject to a modern revision. Two species fitting the original description of T. rubripennis are present in Israel, one of them ( cf. rubripennis sp. 1) more widespread and one of them ( cf. rubripennis sp. 2) apparently confined to Israel. Neither of these two species is conspecific with the interpretation sensu COIFFAIT (1974), whose illustration of the aedeagus is based on a male from Uzbekistan.