Meotica hamata, Assing, 2011

Assing, Volker & Vogel, Jürgen, 2019, The mother of synonyms: on the Meotica species of the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Oxypodini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 731-772 : 766

Meotica hamata ASSING, 2011 ( Figs 97-99 )

Meotica hamata ASSING, 2011: 213.

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: SeeASSING (2011).

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: UKRAINE: 1♂, Kyiv, M " Lisova " env., leaf litter, 9.IV.2018, leg. Gontarenko (cAss).

C o m m e n t: Meotica hamata was originally described based on a unique male holotype from the Turkish province Bolu ( ASSING 2011). The above male from Ukraine represents a new country record. Based on the similarly derived morphology of the aedeagus, this species is closely allied to M. filiformis .

D i a g n o s i s: ♂: sternite VIII ( Fig. 97 ) strongly transverse, posterior margin obtusely produced in the middle; median lobe of aedeagus ( Figs 98-99 ) of distinctive shape; ventral process apically spear-shaped in ventral view; apical lobe of paramere blackish.

♀: unknown.

For additional illustrations see ASSING (2011).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Turkey (Bolu); Ukraine.

Figures

Figs 91-99: Meotica subnigra (91-93)), M. trunata (94-96), and M. hamata (97-99): (91-92, 95, 98) median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view; (93, 96) spermatheca; (94, 97) male sternite VIII; (99) apical portion of median lobe of aedeagus in ventral view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.