Astenus rufopacus REITTER, 1909

Assing, Volker & Schülke, Michael, 2019, The Staphylinidae of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (Coleoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (1), pp. 91-173 : 163

Astenus rufopacus REITTER, 1909

Astenus rufopacus REITTER, 1909: 150 .

Astenus baali COIFFAIT, 1960: 94 f.; syn. nov.

The original description of A. rufopacus is based on an unspecified number of syntypes from “Araxesthal, Lenkoran” ( REITTER 1909), that of A. baali on a holotype and several male paratypes from Lebanon, Turkey, and Armenia (“Delizhan” = Dilijan) ( COIFFAIT 1960). ANLAŞ (2017) studied the type material of A. rufopacus , designated a syntype from Lenkoran as the lectotype, and illustrated the habitus and the male sexual characters. The type material of A. baali is deposited in the Coiffait collection in the Natural History Museum in Paris and consequently inaccessible for scientific study (see ASSING 2018f). However, based on the details indicated in the original description of A. baali and the illustrations of the aedeagus ( COIFFAIT 1960: figures 61–62), there is little doubt that the type material of A. baali is conspecific with that of A. rufopacus .

3.6.9 Staphylininae (by VOLKER ASSING)