Cephennium kartalicum, Assing & Meybohm, 2021

Assing, Volker & Meybohm, Heinrich, 2021, The Cephennium fauna of Turkey and the Middle East (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 71 (1), pp. 1-28 : 23-24

Cephennium kartalicum spec. nov.

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( Figs 20 , 56 , Map 3 )

Type material: Holotype : “TR Gaziantep (17), Kartal Dag 1200 m, W Yamacoba / 37°10'N E37°5' E (17) 25.4.2004, leg. Brachat & Meybohm / Holotypus  Cephennium kartalicum sp. n., det. V. Assing 2020” (cAss).

Etymology: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from Kartal, the name of the mountain range where the species was discovered.

Description: Body length 1.0 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 20 . Punctation of pronotum much more distinct than that of elytra. Other external and male secondary sexual characters as in C. marasicum and C. corruptum .

: aedeagus ( Fig. 56 ) short, broad, and apically truncate, 0.24 mm long; internal sac with non-fimbriate structures of distinctive shapes; paramere apically extending slightly beyond apex of median lobe, with short apical seta.

Comparative notes: Cephennium kartalicum is reliably distinguished from other species of the C. corruptum group only by the shape and internal structures of the rather small aedeagus.

Distribution and natural history: The type locality is situated in Kartal Dağı, Gaziantep province, central southern Anatolia ( Map 3 ). The holotype was sifted at an alitude of 1200 m.

Figures

Map 3: Distributions of the species of the Cephennium jonicum and C. corruptum groups in Turkey: C. unguicum (grey stars); C. deplectens (white stars); C. sicaferum (grey triangles); C. duplum (grey diamonds); C. geminum (grey circles); C. reductum (black triangles); C. corruptum (black circles); C. fimbriatum (white square); C. besucheti (black square); C. affimbriatum (white circles); C. marasicum (black diamonds); C. dolucanum (white triangle); C. kartalicum (black star); C. nemruticum (white diamond).

Figs 17–24: Male habitus in dorsal view of Cephennium fimbriatum (17), C. besucheti (18), C. affimbriatum (19), C. kartalicum (20), C. nemruticum (21), C. unguicum (22), C. deplectens (23), and C. jordanicum (24). Scale bar: 1.0 mm.

Figs 48–58: Aedeagus in lateral (48) and in ventral view (49–58) of Cephennium reductum (48–50), C. nemruticum (51), C. marasicum (52), C. dolucanum (53), C. besucheti (54), C. affimbriatum (55), C. kartalicum (56), C. corruptum (57), and C. fimbriatum (58). Scale bar: 0.1 mm.