Cephennium andujari, 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 : 921

Cephennium andujari nov.sp. ( Fig. 51 , Map 2 )

Type material: Holotype ♂: "E – Alicante, S. d'Aitana, 8 km N Sella 1390 m, 38°39'09N, 00°15'02W, leg. Andujar 28.3.2007 / Holotypus ♂ Cephennium andujari sp. n. det. V. Assing 2020" ( cAss).

Etymology: This species is dedicated to Carmelo Andújar (La Laguna), who collected not only the holotype of this species during a joint field trip with the first author, but also the type material of two other species described in the present paper.

Description: Body length 1.1 mm. Habitus even more slender than that of C. tensum . Pronotum approximately 1.1 times as broad as long. Other external and male secondary sexual characters as in C. tensum .

♂: aedeagus ( Fig. 51 ) slender, 0.36 mm long; ventral process narrow, apically weakly convex; internal structures small and weakly sclerotized; parameres long, slender, straight, and with conspicuously long apical seta.

Comparative notes: This species is distinguished from the similar, evidently closely related, and geographically close C. tensum by a more slender habitus and a significantly smaller and differently shaped aedeagus.

Distribution and natural history: The type locality is situated in Sierra de Aitana, Alicante, East Spain ( Map 2 ). The holotype was collected by soilwashing in a stony pasture at an altitude of 1390 m.

Figures

Map 2: Distributions of Cephennium spp. of the C. caecum and C. tensum groups in the Iberian Peninsula and the Baleares, based on Besuchet (unpubl.), OROUSSET (2018), and examined material: C. atomarium (black circles); C. coiffaiti (white circles); C. caecum (black triangles); C. hypogaeum (white diamond); C. minutissimum (white stars); C. catalonicum (black diamonds); C. filabresicum (black star); C. andujari (white triangle).

Figs 46-58: Cephennium catalonicum (46-47), C. filabresicum (48), C. espunae (49), C. tensum (50), C. andujari (51), C. tenuissimum (52-53), C. tensum (54-56; 56: C. p. algeciranum), and C. ibericum (57-58): (46, 48-54, 57) aedeagus in lateral and in dorsal view; (47, 55-56, 58) internal structures of aedeagus. Scale bar: 0.1 mm; 47, 55-56, 58: without scale. 46-47, 54-58: based on Besuchet (unpubl.).