Geostiba gibberiventris, Assing, 2017

Assing, Volker, 2017, A revision of Geostiba of the West Palaearctic region. XXV. New species from Georgia and Greece, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (2), pp. 1093-1106 : 1096

Geostiba (Tropogastrosipalia) tiflisensis PACE, 1996 ( Fig. 16 , Map 1 )

This species is currently known only from Ananuri ( ASSING 2005a, 2009) and a locality to the southwest of Telavi ( ASSING 2016a). The aedeagus of a male from Telavi is illustrated in Fig. 16 . The previous record from the environs of Gudani ( ASSING 2016a) is based on a misidentification and refers to G. gibberiventris nov.sp. The currently known distribution is illustrated in Map 1 .

Figures

Map 1: Distributions of the species of the subgenus Tropogastrosipalia in the Caucasus region, based on examined records: G. svanetica (black diamond); G. gibberiventris (white diamond); G. tiflisensis (black circles); G. artvinensis (white circles); G. pontica (black square); G. solodovnikovi (black star); G. priva (white square); G. khnzoriani (black triangles).

Figs 16-18: Median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view of Geostiba tiflisensis (16), G. svanetica nov.sp. (17), and G. gibberiventris nov.sp. (18). Scale bar: 0.1 mm.