The Cephennium fauna of Turkey and the Middle East (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) Assing, Volker Meybohm, Heinrich Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 2021 2021-06-30 71 1 1 28 8XWXR Assing & Meybohm, 2021 Assing & Meybohm 2021 [869,1120,659,686] Insecta Staphylinidae Cephennium Animalia Coleoptera 20 21 Arthropoda species marasicum sp. nov.  ( Figs 15, 52, Map 3)   Type material:  Holotype: “ N37°23'45 E036°48'05, TR Kahramanmaras, Uzunsögut  660 m(47), 30 kmssw K. Maras/ Laubstreu,  4.5.2005, leg. Brachat& Meybohm / Holotypus  Cephennium marasicum sp. n., det. V. Assing 2020” (cAss).  Paratypes: 1 , 1 : “ N37°26'04 E036°44'32(8), TR Kahramanmaras, 25 kmsw Maras, Yesilyöre  800 m, Brachat & Meybohm  23.4.2007” (cAss).   Etymology: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from Maras, alluding to the fact that the typelocality is situated in the Turkish province Kahramanmaraş.   Description: Habitus as in Fig. 15. Punctation of pronotum more distinct than that of elytra. Other external and male secondary sexual characters as in  C. corruptum. : aedeagus ( Fig. 52) short, broad, and apically truncate, 0.33 mmlong; internal sac with structures of distinctive shape; paramere apically extending beyong apex of median lobe, with short apical seta.  Comparative notes:  Cephennium marasicumis distinguished from the externally similar and geographically close  C. corruptumonly by relatively more distinct punctation of the pronotum, as well as by the internal structures and longer parameres of the larger aedeagus.   Distribution and natural history: This species is currently known from only two localities to the southwest of Kahramanmaraş, Kahramanmaraş province, central southern Anatolia( Map 3). The specimens were sifted from leaf litter near rocks at altitudes of 660 and  800 m. 2005-05-04 V K. Maras & Brachat 660 37.395836 Uzunsogut 19 36.801388 20 21 2 Kahramanmaras holotype 2007-04-23 800 37.434444 Yesilyore 19 36.74222 Maras 20 21 1 Kahramanmaras paratype