Cypha rubripennis ( PANDELLÉ , 1869)

Assing, V., 2014, Three new species, redescriptions, a new synonymy, and additional records of Cypha from the West Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (2), pp. 1167-1178 : 1171-1173

Cypha rubripennis ( PANDELLÉ, 1869) ( Figs 8-10 )

Hypocyptus rubripennis PANDELLÉ, 1869: 283 .

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d Morocco: 1, Azrou, 1400-1900 m, leg. Alluaud ( MNHNP). Spain: 2, Murcia, Jumilla , Sierra del Carche, flight interception trap, 29.VIII.-25.X.2009, leg. Lencina (cAss) ; 1, Murcia, Sierra de Espuña , 1500 m, 7.VI.2003, leg. Forcke (cAss). France: 1, Var, Les Maures [?], XI.1915, leg. Fagniez ( MNHNP) ; 1 ex., Vitry-sur-Seine , 27.IX.1953 ( MNHNP) ; 1, "La Bonde (Vse), Fagniez. Fév." (MNHNP).

C o m m e n t: The original description is based on a female from Tarbes in Southwest

France. Since an identification based on the rough sketch of the aedeagus and the de-

scriptive details provided by DAUPHIN (2004) may be difficult, a redescription is given.

R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 1.5-1.8 mm; length of forebody 0.8-0.9 mm. Coloration: head, pronotum, and abdomen blackish-brown to blackish, except for the reddish-yellow lateral and posterior margins of the pronotum; elytra reddish; legs reddish to brown with paler tarsi; antennae reddish; mouthparts reddish, with maxillary palpomere III somewhat darker.

Head strongly transverse; punctation extremely fine and sparse; interstices with shallow microreticulation, rather glossy. Antenna approximately 0.6 mm long, with weakly marked club; antennomeres I and II large; III-VI moderately oblong and very weakly increasing in width; VII-IX moderately oblong and more distinctly increasing in width; X slightly more than twice as long as broad and approximately as long as the combined length of VIII and IX

Pronotum 1.8-1.9 times as broad as long and 1.7-1.8 times as broad as head; punctation and microsculpture similar to those of head.

Elytra slightly shorter than pronotum; punctation fine, but slightly more distinct than that of pronotum; interstices with shallow microreticulation. Protarsomere I with sexual dimorphism.

Abdomen with sparse and rather fine punctation, and with distinct, but shallow microreticulation.

: protarsomere I elongated and enlarged; median lobe of aedeagus ( Figs 8-10 ) approximately 0.45 mm long and of highly distinctive morphology; ventral process slender, nearly straight in lateral view, and apically widened in ventral view; internal sac with pair of very long spines.

: protarsomere I elongated, but less large than that of male. C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: Based on the similar external characters (shape, size, coloration) and particularly on the similar general morphology of the median lobe of the aedeagus, C. rubripennis is closely allied to C. suecica (PALM, 1936) and C. discoidea (ERICHSON, 1839) . It is reliably distinguished from these species by the differently shaped apex of the ventral process of the aedeagus and by the much longer spines in the internal sac, additionally also by the darker legs and antennae. For illustrations of the aedeagi of C. suecica and C. discoidea see PALM (1966) and ASSING (2004a).

D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d n a t u r a l h i s t o r y: AccordingtoDAUPHIN (2004), C. rubripennis is distributed in "Europe, Afrique du Nord. France: Provence, Hautes- Pyrénées". However, no country other than France is specified. In SMETANA (2004), the species is listed only for France, suggesting that the above specimens from Morocco and Spain represent new country records.

The two males from Murcia were collected with flight interception traps ; the female from Murcia was probably sifted at an altitude of 1500 m .

Figures

Figs 8-14: Cypha rubripennis (8-10) and C. prominens (11-14): (8, 12-13): median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view; (9) ventral process of median lobe in ventral view; (10) basal portion of median lobe in dorsal view; (11) habitus; (14) median lobe of aedeagus in ventral view. Scale bars: 11: 0.5 mm; 8-10, 12-14: 0.1 mm.