Phyllodrepa melis HANSEN 1940

Zanetti, A., 2008, Synonymies in the European Omaliinae, with notes on distribution (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1), pp. 979-992 : 982

Phyllodrepa melis HANSEN 1940

Phyllodrepa melis HANSEN 1940

Phyllodrepa linderi SCHEERPELTZ 1966 nov.syn. Lectotype (male) (here designated) labelled / Freiburg 1934 / ex coll. Scheerpeltz (blue) / Typus Phyllodrepa Linderi O. Scheerpeltz (red) / vidit A. Zanetti 1985 / Lectotype Phyllodrepa linderi Scheerp. des. A. Zanetti 2008 / Phyllodrepa melis Hansen det. Zanetti 2008; paralectotype with the same data (NHMW).

C o m m e n t s: Phyllodrepa linderi was described as closely related to P. melis , a North and Central European species inhabiting the burrows of badger (Meles meles). In a previous work ( ZANETTI 1987) I considered the synonymy of these taxa most likely. I have re-examined the type series and designated the lectotype, whose aedeagus is deformed by the dryness, as often happens in the Omaliinae (Fig. 12), but has the general shape that corresponds to that of P. melis (Fig. 11). Also the external characters fall in the variability range of P. melis .