Cephennium corruptum, 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 : 20-21

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https://doi.org/ 10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.1.001-028

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scientific name

Cephennium corruptum
status

sp. nov.

Cephennium corruptum View in CoL spec. nov.

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( Figs 14 View Figs 9–16 , 57 View Figs 48–58 , Map 3 View Map 3 )

Type material: Holotype : “ N37°07'41 E34°33'03, Türkei Mersin (25/26), Camliyayla, 3 km w. Sebil 1060– 1090 m / Streu an Felsen, 24.4.2005 (25/26), leg. Brachat & Meybohm / Holotypus  Cephennium corruptum sp. n., det. V. Assing 2020” (cAss) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 8 , 1 : same data as holotype (cAss); 1 : “TR – Mersin, ca. 30 km NNW Tarsus, 430 m, No. 7, 37°08'43N, 34°44'29E, Pinus , Q. ilex , Juglans , 26.12.2000, V. Assing” (cAss); 1 : “TR Umg. Mersin, Mersin – Arslanköy, 9 km sö Akdag, N36°55' E34°32' / Süd-Türkei, 6.5.2002, leg. Brachat & Meybohm” (cAss); 1 : “TR Mersin (33), road to Arslanköy, 5 km SE Aladag 700 m / 36°54'45N 34°31'44E (33), 2.5.2004, leg. Brachat & Meybohm” (cAss); 1 : “TR Mersin (34), road to Arslanköy, Aladag 830 m / 36°56'20N 34°30'12E (34), 2.5.2004, leg. Brachat & Meybohm” (cAss); 2 : “ N37°08'50 E034°42'49, TR Mersin Daripinari 710 m, E Camliyayla 25.4.2011, Brachat & Meybohm (28)” (cAss); 2 : “TR Umg. Adana, Ciftehan Tal – Camlyayla [sic] 430 m, N37°8', E34°44' / Süd-Türkei, 5.5.2002, leg. Brachat & Meybohm” (cAss); 2 : “ N37°29'34 E35°23'56, Türkei Adana (37), Karsanti 910 m (w Kozan), Hasandede Gec. / Hang mit Seidelbast, 28.4.2005 (37), leg. Brachat & Meybohm” (cAss); 1 , 1 : “ N37°29'52 E35°22'48, Türkei Adana (38), Karsanti 1100 m (w Kozan), w Hasandede Gec. / Tannenwald, 28.4.2005 (38), leg. Brachat & Meybohm” (cAss); 1 : “ N37°20'33 E034°54'41, TR Adana Belemedik, 710 m, 15.4.2011, Brachat & Meybohm (2)” (cAss); 1 , 1 : “ N37°32'30 E034°58'55, TR Adana Kamisli E 5 km 1450 m, 24.4.2011, Brachat & Meybohm (30)” (cAss); 2 , 1 : “ N37°33'00 E034°58'36, TR Adana Kamisli E 4 km 1385 m, 26.4.2011, Brachat & Meybohm (31)” (cAss); 1 : “TR Umg. Adana, südl. Pozanti, Tekir, 1200–1400 m, N37°18', E34°51' / Süd-Türkei, 4.5.2002, leg. Brachat & Meybohm” (cAss) GoogleMaps .

Etymology: The specific epithet is the past participle of the Latin verb corrumpere (to decay) and alludes to the fungus-shaped internal structures of the aedeagus.

Description: Body length 1.0– 1.2 mm; length of pronotum 0.30–0.35 mm; width of pronotum 0.40–0.44 mm; length of antennae 0.45–0.50 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 14 View Figs 9–16 . Colouration: body yellowish-red.

Eyes composed of approximately five ommatidia.Antenna with antennomeres VIII–X moderately transverse.

Pronotum 1.20–1.25 times as broad as long, broadest in anterior half, and moderately convex in cross-section; lateral margins straight in posterior half; punctation as fine as that of elytra.

Elytra noticeably broader than pronotum, anteriorly with small transversely oval impression with tomentose whitish pubescence; humeral carina pronounced, approximately as long as the combined length of the basal four antennomeres, inner margin of this carina sharply delimited.

: protibia unmodified; metaventrite depressed or shallowly impressed; aedeagus ( Fig. 57 View Figs 48–58 ) short, broad, and apically truncate, approximately 0.25 mm long; internal sac with structures of distinctive shapes; paramere apically extending nearly to apex of median lobe, with short apical seta.

Comparative notes: Among other species of this group, C. corruptum is reliably identified only based on the shape and the internal structures of the aedeagus.

Distribution and natural history: The distribution includes several localities in Mersin and Adana provinces, central South Anatolia ( Map 3 View Map 3 ). The specimens were sifted in various forested ( Pinus , Juglans , Quercus ilex , Cedrus , Juniperus , etc.) and unforested habitats (grassy slopes) or found under stones at altitudes of 430–1450 m.

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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Cephennium

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