Four new species and additional records of Staphylinidae from Spain (Insecta: Coleoptera) Assing, V. Linzer biologische Beiträge 2007 39 2 761 775 4DHDT Assing 2007 [340,558,429,452] Insecta Staphylinidae Paratyphlus Animalia Coleoptera 3 764 Arthropoda species espunae sp. nov.  D e s c r i p t i o n: 1.0- 1.3 mm(abdomen extended); habitus and forebody as in Figs 1-2. : sternite VII with shallow median impression in posterior half; tergite VII weakly transverse and with truncate posterior margin ( Fig. 3); sternite VIII with rather extensive impunctate median impression, posterior margin with excision of broadly triangular shape ( Fig. 4); aedeagus as in Figs 5-7. : tergite VIII oblong and with weakly concave posterior margin ( Fig. 8); sternite VIII oblong, its posterior margin acutely angled in the middle ( Fig. 9). C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The genus  ParatyphlusBLACKWELDER 1952is distributed in the Iberian Peninsula (including the Baleares) and North Africa from Moroccoto Tunisia; it currently includes 29 species ( COIFFAIT 1959, 1972; HERNANDO & FANCELLO 2004; SMETANA 2004). 13 species have been recorded from mainland Spain. The geographically closest representatives of the genus are  P. mateuiCOIFFAIT 1955 (Malaga)and  P. morandiCOIFFAIT 1957 (Alicante). Species of  Paratyphluscan be distinguished only based on the male primary sexual characters, which is why the external morphology of  P. espunaeis not explicitly described above, apart from the secondary sexual characters. For illustrations of the aedeagi of other  Paratyphlusspeciessee COIFFAIT (1959, 1972) and HERNANDO & FANCELLO (2004).   Fig. 10: Type locality of  Paratyphlus espunae nov.sp. 765 E t y m o l o g y: The name (noun, genitive) is derived from the mountain range where the typelocality is situated. D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d b i o n o m i c s: As can be inferred from the restricted distributions of the vast majority of leptotyphlines,  P. espunaeis probably endemic to the Sierra de Espuña, where the typeswere collected in a pasture by washing sandy soil between stones and grass roots ( Fig. 10) at altitudes of 1100 and 1140 m, together with  Meotica andujarinov.sp (see below). 2007-03-29 OOLL C. Andujar V. Assing 1100 37.888336 Prado Mayor 19 1.5677778 Sierra de Espuna 3 764 6 Murcia holotype 2007-03-29 C. Andujar 1140 37.88639 Prado Mayor 19 1.5647222 Sierra de Espuna 3 764 1 Murcia holotype