Trichodromeus gulmargensis ( Coiffait, 1983 ) Shavrin, 2024

Shavrin, Alexey V., 2024, Review of Hygrogeus Mulsant & Rey, 1880 and Trichodromeus Luze, 1903, with descriptions of three new genera from the eastern Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Anthophagini: Omaliinae), Zootaxa 5531 (1), pp. 1-62 : 16

Trichodromeus gulmargensis ( Coiffait, 1983) comb. n.

Hygrogeus gulmargensis Coiffait, 1983: 282 ; Herman 2001: 309, Smetana 2004: 245, Schülke & Smetana 2015: 316.

Remarks. Hygrogeus gulmargensis was originally described based on a male from “Cachemire, Gulmarg, 3 000– 3 500 m …”. Based on the details of the morphology of the body provided in the original description and the aedeagus ( Fig. 2F ), this medium-sized (4.80 mm) species belongs to the genus Trichodromeus .

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Habitus of Hygrogeus (Fig. 1) and Trichodromeus (Figs 2–6): 1—H. aemulus (Tirol), 2—T. armatus (Kashmir: Baltal), 3—T. armatus (Kashmir: Kolahoi Glacier), 4—T. ketmeniensis (Kyrgyzstan: Chatkal Mts.), 5—T. ovchinnikovi (holotype), 6—T. kumaonensis (paratype). Scale bar: 1.0 mm.