Tachinus (Tachinoderus) nigriceps Sharp, 1888

Veselova, Elena, 2011, On the fauna of Tachyporinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the Russian Far East. I. The genus Tachinus Gravenhorst, 1802, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 11 (1), pp. 73-92 : 77-79

Tachinus (Tachinoderus) nigriceps Sharp, 1888

( Fig. 8 –11, 18, 21, 25–26.)

Tachinus nigriceps Sharp, 1888 , The Annals and Magazine of natural History, Ser.6, 2(11): 38

Tachinus (s.str.) nigriceps ; Bernhauer & Schubert, 1916: 484

Tachinus (s.str.) nigriceps ; Winkler, 1925: 402

Tachinus (s.str.) nigriceps ; Tichomirova, 1973a: 150

Tachinus (Tachinoderus) nigriceps ; Ullrich, 1975: 315

Tachinus (Tachinoderus) nigriceps ; Herman, 2001, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 265: 971

Tachinus (Tachinoderus) nigriceps nigriceps ; Smetana, 2004: 344

Tachinus (Tachinoderus) nigriceps (pars); Schülke, 2005, Linzer biologische Beiträge, 37(2): 1569

Tachinus kobensis Cameron, 1933 , The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 69: 172

Tachinus (Tachinoderus) kobensis ; L.-Z. Li, 1995a, The Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, I(2): 208

Tachinus (incertae sedis) kobensis ; Tichomirova, 1973a: 150

Tachinus kobensis ; Herman, 2001, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 265: 953 Tachinus (Tachinoderus) kobensis ; Smetana, 2004:344

Material. JAPAN: Holotype, female: „ Tachinus nig- | riceps Type | D.S.”<on the same plate with the specimen>,”Type”,”Japan. | G.Lewis. | 1910- 320.”, Lectotypus | Tachinus female | nigriceps Shp. | des. | W.G.Ullrich 1974 | <vertically:>No.21937”<red>,” Tachinus female | nigriceps | Sharp. | W.G.Ullrich det. | <vertically:>No.21937”,” HOLOTYPUS!”<red>,” Tachinus female HT! | nigriceps Sharp | E.M.Veselova vid. 2007” ( BM).― 1 male: „Tsushima, Japan”, „ diminutus Shp., det. Bernhauer, Bang H[aa]s. lg. Rost”, „Chicago, NHMu, M.Bernhauer Collection”, „ diminutus Sharp Ann. Mag. Nat.

designation was invalid because the original description had been based on the single female.

L.-Z. Li (1995a) redescribed the species he supposed to be T. nigriceps , and revalidated T. kobensis without revising the types. I have ascertained (see above) that the specimens identified as the former by Li belong in fact to T. rubricollis . The female characters of T. kobensis redescribed by L.-Z.Li correspond well to those of the femaleholotype of T. nigriceps I have restudied (without dissecting the last abdominal segments); and the male characters of the former seem to be identical with both the male specimen of the latter studied by me and the figures given for T. nigriceps in Ullrich’s monograph (l.c.). This makes it possible to resynonymize T. kobensis Cameron with T. nigriceps Sharp.

T. nigriceps was known with certainty from Japan only (Ullrich

Figures 11–14. ― Male abdominal tergite 8 of Tachinus spp. l.c.); Schülke’s (l.c.) records of T.

11. T. nigriceps Sharp, 1888 ( Japan: Tsushima). 12–14. T. nigriceps for the Asian mainland

rubricollis Rambousek, 1921 (12–13: Amur Area: Nora River, most likely refer to T. rubricollis .

14: HT of T. nigriceps mandschuricus Ullrich, 1975 ). Scale = Herein I report T. nigriceps for

0.1 mm. Russia (Kunashir Island) for the first time. It is probably a true

Hist. 1888, p. 382 [folded]”, „ Tachinus male insular species.

nigriceps Shp. W.G.Ullrich , [vertically:] 22234”

( FMNH).― RUSSIA: SAKHALIN AREA: 1 female :

S Kuriles, Kunashir Island, near Mendeleyevo, Tachinus (s.str.) atripes J. Sahlberg, 1876

17-th km, 11.07.1985, N.B.Nikitskiy & V. V.Belov leg. ( EV). Tachinus atripes J. Sahlberg, 1876 , Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, 1: 192

Remarks. Ullrich (1975) synonymized T. Tachinus (s.str.) atripes ; Tichomirova, 1973a: 150

kobensis with T. nigriceps and designated the Tachinus (s.str.) atripes ; Ullrich, 1975: 163

lectotype of the latter. Schülke (2005) has properly indicated that Ullrich”s lectotype

Material. KHABAROVSK TERRITORY: 1 male : Amur basin, Tarakan Mt. Ridge, 19.09.1957, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( EV) .

Remarks. T. atripes has been recorded from N Fennoscandia; only a few specimens are known. ( Ullrich 1975). It is cited herein from both the Russian fauna and the Far East for the first time.

Figures

Figures 1–10. ― Male genitalia of Tachinus spp. 1-7. T. rubricollis Rambousek, 1921 (1–3: HT of T. nigriceps mandschuricus Ullrich, 1975, 4–7:Amur Area: Nora River), aedeagus (1–2: bilaterally, 4,6: laterally, 3, 5: from the basal opening), endophallus (7: from the side opposite to the basal opening). 8–10. T. nigriceps Sharp, 1888 (Japan: Tsushima), aedeagus (8: from basal opening, 9: laterally), endophallus (10: from the side opposite to the basal opening). Scale = 0.1 mm.