Pseudamaurops, Jeannel, 1948

Bekchiev, Rostislav & Hlaváč, Peter, 2019, Description of new species of Pseudamaurops Jeannel, 1948 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Greece and North Macedonia, Zootaxa 4688 (3), pp. 399-406 : 405

Key to males of Pseudamaurops

modified from Hlaváč (2005)

1. Mesofemora with three spines, two upper spines small, lower spine much longer, antennal segment X longer than wide, Montenegro............................................................ P. calcarata Nonveiller & Pavićević, 2002

- Mesofemora with 0-1 spine............................................................................. 2

2 Antennal club slender, antennomeres IX and X elongate, ( Fig. 1b ), Macedonia....................... P. hristovskii sp. n.

- Antennal club robust, antennomeres IX and X strongly transverse ( Fig. 1a )........................................

3. Pronotum with lateral carinae thin, short or missing.......................................................... 5

- Pronotum with two well defined, anteriorly convergent or parallel lateral carinae, length of carinae exceeding half of pronotal length.............................................................................................. 4

4 Pronotal carinae anteriorly convergent. Albania....................................... P. transversalis Hlaváč, 2005

- Pronotal carinae anteriorly parallel, Greece.................................................... P. tymficus sp. n.

5. Mesofemora with one spine at middle, Albania...................................... P. albanicus ( Apfelbeck, 1907)

- Mesofemora with one spine at base....................................................................... 6

6. Antennomeres X–XI asymmetrical, triangular, Greece...................................... P. graecus Hlaváč, 2005

- Antennomeres IX–X trapezoidal, Albania.................................................................. 7

7. Mesofemora with one big spine at base, aedeagus as in Fig.3b........................ P . muellerianus ( Ravasini, 1923)

- Mesofemora with one small spine at base, aedeagus as in Fig.3e............................. P . brachati Hlaváč, 2005

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitus of Pseudamaurops—a) P. muellerianus (male, holotype); b) P. hristovskii sp. n. (male, holotype). Scale: 1 mm.

FIGURE 3. Aedeagi of Pseudamaurops, ventral and lateral view (Scale: 0.1 mm)—a) P. albanicus; b) P. muellerianus; c) P. hristovski sp. n.; d) P. tyficus sp. n.; e) P. brachati Hlaváč, 2005 (from Hlaváč, 2005, scale—0.2 mm)