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Bledius (Pucerus) palliatus Fauvel, 1895

Blinstein, Semen, 2024, New Species, Records And Synonym Of The Genus Bledius Leach, 1819 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelini) From India, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 24 (2), pp. 177-182 : 180

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.59893/abud.24(2).003

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scientific name

 Bledius (Pucerus) palliatus Fauvel, 1895
status

 

Bledius (Pucerus) palliatus Fauvel, 1895 View in CoL

= Bledius soesilae Makhan, 2013 View in CoL syn. nov.

Note. The insufficient, brief original description of Bl. soesilae View in CoL is supplemented with a number of images that allow one to diagnose this taxon more accurately. According to Makhan (2013), this species is close to Bl. bison Cameron, 1930 View in CoL and Bl. marusthanicus Biswas & Sengupta, 1989 View in CoL , i.e. is a member of the subgenus Elbidus . However, the images clearly show a set of features characteristic for another subgenus - Pucerus : the structure of the clypeus, the supraantennal ‘horns’, and aedeagus. Within Pucerus it appears completely similar - conspecific with Bl. (P.) palliatus Fauvel, 1895 View in CoL , and a new synonym is introduced herewith.

Biswas D., Sengupta T. 1989. Revision of Indian Bledius Leach (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India. Occasional Paper. Calcutta 122: 1 - 46.

Cameron M. 1930. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera: Staphylinidae. Volume 1. London, Taylor and Francis, Pp. xvii + 471.

Makhan D. 2013. Bledius soesilae sp. nov. from the Taj Mahal, India (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Calodema 253: 1 - 6.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Bledius

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