Typhlocyptus pandellei SAULCY, 1878

Assing, Volker, Brachat, Volker & Meybohm, Heinrich, 2019, Monograph of the Staphylinidae of Crete (Greece). Part II. Descriptions of new species (Insecta: Coleoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (2), pp. 239-289 : 260

Typhlocyptus pandellei SAULCY, 1878

( Figs 61–62 )

Material examined: Italy: 5 exs., Genova , leg. Dodero ( MNB, NHMW) ; 3 exs., Genova env., Dinegro, 20.VI.1903, leg. Dodero ( NHMW) ; 1 ex., Elba , leg. Moczarski ( NHMW) . Croatia: 1 ex., Mljet (island), 1907, leg. Moczarski ( NHMW) . Montenegro: 1 ex., HerzegNovi env., Savina, leg. Kaiser ( NHMW) ; 1 ex., Radoštak (mountain), leg. Kaiser ( NHMW) . Greece: Corfu: 7 exs., Val de Ropa , 1926, leg. Beier & Moczarski ( NHMW) . Kefalonia : 7 exs., Krane , 1926, leg. Moczarski & Beier ( NHMW) .

Comment: The specimens from Elba, Corfu, and Kefalonia are labelled as types of Typhlocyptus elbanus SCHEERPELTZ , T. corcyricus SCHEERPELTZ , and T. cephallenicus SCHEERPELTZ , respectively, all of them manuscript names. Most of the specimens from Kefalonia lack an abdomen, suggesting that someone previously attempted to dissect them.

A study of the aedeagus ( Figs 61–62 ) of males from Genova, Corfu, and Kefalonia revealed only indistinct differences in the shape of the ventral process of the aedeagus (apex slightly sharper in the specimens from the Ionian islands than in those from Italy), so that all of them are attributed to T. pandellei for the time being.

Figures

Figs 57–70: Typhlocyptus creticus (57–60), T. pandellei (61–62), Geomitopsis cretica (63–64), and Allotyphlus foedatus (65–70): aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (57–58, 61–64, 67–70); ventral process of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (59–60); male sternites VI–VIII (65); male sternite VIII (66). Scale bars: 0.1 mm.