Geostiba (Tropogastrosipalia) kastamonuensis PACE 1983

Assing, V., 2009, A revision of Geostiba of the Western Palaearctic region. XIX. New species from Turkey and Iran and additional records, with an updated key and a catalogue of the species of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (2), pp. 1191-1246 : 1194

Geostiba (Tropogastrosipalia) kastamonuensis PACE 1983

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Turkey: 31 exs., Kastamonu, 15 km N Tosya, Ilgaz geç., 41°08'N, 34°04'E, 1660 m, margin of fir forest, Formica nest, sifted, 6.IV.2009, leg. Assing, Wunderle (cAss, cWun) ; 2 exs., same data, but sifted from the leaf litter of a mixed pine and fir forest (cWun) .

The above specimens were collected near the type locality and represent the first record since the original description (disregarding some specimens that were collected practically together with the types, but not included in the type series) ( ASSING 2000b). Remarkably, almost all the above specimens were sifted from a Formica nest; only two specimens were found in the litter of the adjacent fir and pine forest.