Quedius pseudonigriceps Reitter, 1909

Solodovnikov, Alexey, 2012, Rove beetle subtribes Quediina, Amblyopinina and Tanygnathinina: systematic changes affecting Central European fauna (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylinini), ZooKeys 162, pp. 25-42 : 32

Quedius pseudonigriceps Reitter, 1909

Quedius noricus Bernhauer, 1927, syn. n.

Type material examined

Quedius pseudonigriceps : Bosnia and Herzegovina:Lectotype (here designated): ♂, "Nevesinje, V. Zoufal/ coll. Reitter/ Paratypus Quedius humeralis v. pseudonigriceps Reitter 1909" (HNHM); paralectotypes: 1 ♀, same data as in lectotype; 1 ♂, "Herzegovina Velež-Planina 1900 - 9/ Quedius humeralis Steph. coll. Reitter/ Q. (Sauridus) pseudonigriceps Reitt. H. Coiffait det. 1967" (HNHM); Turkey: 1 ♀, "Alem-Dagh/ coll. Reitter/ Holotypus Quedius humeralis var. pseudonigriceps Reitter 1909" (HNHM).

Quedius noricus : Austria:Lectotype (here designated): ♀, "Hofgastein tal Juli 1926 Bernhauer/ noricus Bernh. Typus [in Bernhauer’s handwriting]/ Chicago NH Mus M. Bernhauer Collection"; (FMNH); paralectotype: 1 ♀, "Hofgastein tal Juli 1926 Bernhauer/ noricus Bernh. Cotypus [in Bernhauer’s handwriting]/ Chicago NH Mus M. Bernhauer Collection" (FMNH).

Additional material examined

Austria: 1 ♂, "Gesteinertal Brugg AU 900 m Bernh/ Erlenlaub Juni 1928/ noricus Brnh. Det. Bernhauer [in Bernhauer’s handwriting]/ ex. Coll. Sceerpeltz" (NHMW); " Gesteinertal Brugg AU 850 M. Bernh./ Erlenlaub 21.VI. 1928/ noricus Brnh. Det. Bernhauer [in Bernhauer’s handwriting]/ Chicago NH Mus M. Bernhauer Collection" (FMNH); 1 ♀, "Bad Brugg, Erlenlaub, VI.1936 Bernhauer/ Chicago NH Mus M. Bernhauer Collection" (FMNH); 1 ♀, "Badbruck, 900 m, VI.1930, Erienlaub/ Chicago NH Mus M. Bernhauer Collection" (FMNH); 1 ♀, "Gesteinertal Angertal VI.1929 Erle/ noricus Brnh. Det. Bernhauer [in Bernhauer’s handwriting]/ Dr. M. Bernhauer donavit/ ex. Coll. Sceerpeltz/ Cotypus Quedius noricus Bernhauer [pink label in Scheerpeltz’ handwriting]" (NHMW); 1 ♀, "Gesteinertal Angertal VI.1929 Erle / Chicago NH Mus M. Bernhauer Collection" (FMNH); 1 ♂, "Bad Gastein, Bad Bruck F. Leeder [Leder] leg./ Q. noricus det. F. Schubert" (NHMW); 1 ♂, "Gastein Umg. Saltsburg/ leg. Kaiser 6.1932/ Bruck/ noricus Bh. [not Bernhauer’s handwriting]" (NHMW); 1 ♀, "Hofgastein tal Juli 1926 Bernhauer/ noricus Bernh. Det. bernhauer [in Bernhauer’s handwriting]/ Chicago NH Mus M. Bernhauer Collection" (FMNH); 1 ♀, "Hofgastein Juli 1926 / noricus Bernh./ Chicago NH Mus M. Bernhauer Collection" (FMNH); Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2 ♂, 6 ♀, Majavica Bosna, VI. Zoufal (NMPC and ZMUC); 2 ♂, "Nevesinje, K. Kyselý”; Republic of Macedonia: 1 ♂, “AliBotuš VI.29 Maced. Mařan et Táborský lgt." (NMPC); 1 ♂, "Maced. Perister Sv. Petka 7.14. Dr. Rambousek" (NMPC); 1 ♂, Maced. Galičica plan. VIII.1930, Dr. Rambousek (NMPC); Romania: 1 ♂, 7 ♀, Romania, Herculesbad (NMPC and ZMUC); 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Romania, Bălle Herculan, legt. Ing. Machulka (NMPC); Hungary: 1 ♂, Hungaria Com. Bihar, Dr. Fleischer (NMPC).

Discussion.

Quedius noricus was described from two females collected at "Hofgastein Tal Juli 1926 Bernhauer" [label data from two syntypes] in Austria ( Bernhauer 1927). Coiffait (1963, 1978) included this species in his determination keys, provided its redescription and outlined its distribution as "Alpes orientales, montagnes d’Europe centrale" [Eastern Alps, mountains of Central Europe]. He provided illustrations of the aedeagus of this species based on the material from Chech Republic ( “chaîne Bryb"). For some reason Quedius noricus was not included in the keys to the Central European Staphylinidae ( Lohse 1964), but it was added there later ( Lohse 1989), based on the mentioned accounts of this species by Coiffait (1963, 1978). Horion’s (1965) brief account about Quedius noricus was also based on the earlier published Bernhauer’s original description and data in Coiffait (1963) only. Additionally, based on the personal communications from Scheerpeltz and Korge, Horion (1965) mentioned some other specimens of Quedius noricus from Estern Alps ("Bad Gastein, Leder leg., det. Bernhauer (i.l.) Badbruck (900 m) [here examined, see above] und Kötschental (1300 m): Bernhauer leg.; Kolm-Saigurn Käufel leg.": material from Scheerpeltz’ collection), and from the southern part of Romania (1 specimen from “Banat” identified by Korge based on the illustrations in Coiffait (1963). No other material identified as Quedius noricus was ever mentioned in the literature.

It is difficult to establish the identity of two female syntypes of Quedius noricus because they belong to the complex of species (resembling Quedius limbatus ) where the study of male genitalia is critical for the species identification. However, among the additional material from the Vienna Museum of Natural History (see above), there are three male specimens, one of which was identified by Bernhauer as Quedius noricus . Although neither of them are syntypes of Quedius noricus , they were collected near the type locality of that species. Examination of this valuable authentic material shows that Quedius noricus is conspecific with Quedius pseudonigriceps Reitter, 1909, the latter species earlier revised in Solodovnikov (2004). Quedius pseudonigriceps (Figs 9-11) is widely distributed in Southern Europe, Asia Minor, and Transcaucasia, while this new synonymy clarifies its distributionin the southern Central Europe.

Lectotype designation

To fix the identity of Quedius noricus Bernhauer, 1927, one of the syntypes (with the Bernhauer’s label “type”) is designated as a lectotype. The syntypes of Quedius pseudonigriceps were revised in Solodovnikov (2004), of them one male is designated here as a lectotype. Both lectotype designations are done for the unambiguous fixation of the names placed in synonymy.