Stenus picipes Stephens, 1833

Serri, Sayeh & Frisch, Johannes, 2016, Species diversity, chorology, and biogeography of the Steninae MacLeay, 1825 of Iran, with comparative notes on Scopaeus Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 63 (1), pp. 17-44 : 28

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.63.5885

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scientific name

Stenus picipes Stephens, 1833
status

 

Stenus picipes Stephens, 1833 Fig. 22 View Figures 19–24 , Suppl. material 1

Chorology.

Stenus picipes is widespread in the temperate West Palaearctic as far east as western Russia, Anatolia, the Levant (Lebanon, Jordan, Syria), and Iran. The records from the northwestern Zagros Mountains ( Puthz 2010: 61), the first for Iran, mark the southeastern distributional limit of this species (Fig. 22 View Figures 19–24 ). The specimens from Iran belong to the type form Stenus picipes picipes , which differs from Stenus picipes brevipennis Thomson, 1851 by broader elytra with well developed humeral angels. These sympatrical morphs are formally treated as subspecies in recent catalogues ( Schülke and Smetana 2015: 835, 836) and key books ( Puthz 2012a: 309).

Biogeographical characterization.

The wide area of distribution of Stenus picipes can not be attributed to particular Pleistocene refugia of the arboreal, which is why no biogeographical assigning is possible for this West Palaearctic species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Stenus