Cephennium fimbriatum, 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 : 22

Cephennium fimbriatum spec. nov.

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( Figs 17 , 58 , 70 , Map 3 )

Type material: Holotype : “ N37°57'20 E36°06'22, Türkei Adana (35/36), Eyüplü 1560 m, s Saimbeyli (n Kozan) / Tannen, Polsterpfl., 27.4.2005 (35/36), Brachat & Meybohm / Holotypus  Cephennium fimbriatum sp. n., det. V. Assing 2020” (cAss) . Paratypes: 5 , 4 : same data as holotype (cAss).

Etymology: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from the Latin noun fimbria (fringe) and alludes to the partly fimbriate internal structures of the aedeagus.

Description: Habitus as in Fig. 17 . Pronotum with slightly more distinct punctation than elytra. Other external and male secondary sexual characters as in C. marasicum and C. corruptum .

: aedeagus ( Fig. 58 ) short, broad, and apically truncate, approximately 0.27 mm long; internal sac with partly fimbriate structures of distinctive shape; paramere apically extending beyond apex of median lobe, with short apical seta.

Comparative notes: Cephennium fimbriatum is distinguished from the externally similar C. marasicum and C. dolucanum by finer punctation of the pronotum and especially by the smaller aedeagus with internal structures of different shapes.

Distribution and natural history: The type locality ( Fig. 70 ) is situated to the north of Kozan, Adana province, central southern Anatolia ( Map 3 ). The specimens were sifted from cushion plants and fir litter at an altitude of 1560 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.

Fig. 70: Type locality of Cephennium fimbriatum (Adana: Eyüplü).