Cephennium latius ASSING, 2019

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 : 271

Cephennium latius ASSING spec. nov.

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( Figs 125–126 , 175 )

Type material: Holotype ♂: “GR – Crete [15], Psiloritis , NE Livadia , 35°18'56"N, 24°49'07"E, 440 m, soil washing near stream 26.XII.2018, V. Assing / Holotypus ♂ Cephennium latius sp. n. det. V. Assing 2019” ( cAss).

Etymology: The specific epithet is the comparative of the Latin adjective latum (broad, wide) and alludes to the broad ventral process of the aedeagus, one of the characters distinguishing this species from other representatives of the C. sinuosum group.

Description: Body length 1.0 mm; width of pronotum 0.36 mm; width of elytra 0.40 mm; length of antenna 0.45 mm. Other external characters as in C. sinuosum , C. hamulatum , and C. selenanum .

♂: aedeagus 0.30 mm long; ventral process somewhat resembling a house in cross-section in ventral view; internal sac with sclerotized spines of distinctive shapes ( Figs 125–126 ).

Comparative notes: This species is distinguished from C. hamulatum , C. sinuosum , and C. curvatum by longer antennae and the shape and internal structures of the aedeagus.

Distribution and natural history: The type locality ( Fig. 175 ) is identical to that of C. idanum and Cretotyphlus idanus .

Figures

Figs 114–126: Cephennium spp.of the C. sinuosum group:C. sinuosum (114–117), C. fortespinosum (118–119), C. hamulatum (120– 121), C. curvatum (122), C. selenanum (123–124), and C. latius (125–126): habitus (114); aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (115–126). Scale bars: 114: 0.5 mm; 115–126: 0.1 mm.

Figs 174–175: Type localities of Cretotyphlus chanianus and Allotyphlus foedatus in Mavros stream valley, West Crete (above), and