Cephennium (Macroderus) segurae, Assing, 2021

Assing, Volker, 2021, On the Cephennium fauna of the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic Islands (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 891-931 : 927

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5039032

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A65F79A5-2F0E-450C-994C-608C6D3C1A69

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7254493

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B178795-FF8B-7B6F-FF76-FD66FE0D466F

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scientific name

Cephennium (Macroderus) segurae
status

sp. nov.

Cephennium (Macroderus) segurae View in CoL nov.sp. ( Figs 17 View Figs 17-20 , 24 View Figs 23-24 , 67-69 View Figs 65-71 , Map 3 View Map 3 )

Type material: Holotype ♂: "E – Castilla-La Mancha, Sierra de Segura, Calar de Sima , 1430 m, [3], 38°20'36N 02°28'31W, 15.III.2008, V. Assing / Holotypus ♂ Cephennium segurae sp. n. det. V. Assing 2020" ( cAss) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 2♂♂, 3♀♀: same data as holotype ( cAss) .

Etymology: The specific epithet is the genitive of Segura, the mountain range where the species is probably endemic.

Description: Body length 1.3-1.4 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 17 View Figs 17-20 . Colouration reddish. Pubescence of pronotum and elytra moderately long and depressed. Eyes composed of approximately seven ommatidia. Pronotum approximately 1.35 times as broad as long. Elytra with anterior sulci approximately as long as the combined length of the basal four antennomeres. Other external characters as in C. alacantae .

♂: metaventrite shallowly impressed; aedeagus ( Figs 67-69 View Figs 65-71 ) 0.32-0.33 mm long; apex of median lobe broadly obtuse in ventral view; internal structures large and distinctive; parameres apically nearly reaching apex of median lobe.

Comparative notes: Cephennium segurae differs from the geographically close C. cujonicum by slightly larger size, slightly darker colouration, a slightly more transverse pronotum, a shallowly impressed male metaventrite, and by the shape and internal structures of the aedeagus.

Distribution and natural history: The type locality is situated in the western Sierra de Segura range ( Map 3 View Map 3 ). The specimens were sifted from grass, moss, deep litter, and ferns between rocks in a deep limestone canyon with hazelnut at an altitude of 1430 m ( Fig. 24 View Figs 23-24 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Cephennium

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