Pheidologitonetes setifer CAMERON, 1939

Assing, Volker, 2017, On the Lomechusini fauna of the East Palaearctic and Oriental regions, with a focus on the genera Orphnebius and Amaurodera (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 67 (1), pp. 63-106 : 89

Pheidologitonetes setifer CAMERON, 1939

( Figs 98–104 )

Pheidologitonetes setifer CAMERON, 1939: 495 .

Type material examined: Lectotype ♂, present designation: “Nilgiri Hills / Pheidologitonetes setifer Cam. Type / M. Cameron. Bequest. B.M. 1955-147. / Syntype / Lectotypus ♂ Pheidologitonetes setifer Cameron , desig. V. Assing 2016” ( BMNH) . Paralectotypes: 2 exs.: same data as lectotype ( BMNH) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀: same data, but “ H. L. Andrewes, Nilgiri Hills ” ( BMNH) .

Comment: The original description is based on an unspecified number of syntypes from “Nilgiri Hills” found “In company with Pheidologiton affinis ” ( CAMERON 1939). Five syntypes were located in the Cameron collection at the BMNH. The male labelled by Cameron as the “Type” is designated as the lectotype. For a detailed account of the external characters see the description by CAMERON (1939). Tergite and sternite VIII, as well as the primary sexual characters are illustrated in Figs 98–104 . Secondary sexual characters were not observed; even tergite and sternite VIII are of similar shapes and chaetotaxy in both sexes.

Figures

Figs 82–100: Orphnebius migrus (82–89), O. reticulipennis (90–94), Tetrabothrus semiapterus (95–96), Zyrastilbus almorensis (97), and Pheidologitonetessetifer (98–100): maletergite VIII (82);male sternite VIII (83); medianlobeof aedeagus inlateral and inventral view (84–85, 95–96, 98–99); paramere (86); female tergite VIII (87, 90); female sternite VIII (88, 93); spermatheca (89, 94, 100); posterior portion of female tergite VIII (91); postero-lateral portion of female tergite VIII (92); median dorsal portion of head (97). Scale bars: 82–83, 87–88, 90, 93, 95–96, 98–99: 0.2 mm; 84–86, 89, 91–92, 94, 97, 100: 0.1 mm.

Figs 101–123: Pheidologitonetes setifer (101–104), P. bursata (105–109), Drusilla obliqua (110–113), D. nepalensis (114–116), and D. lativentris (117–123): male tergite VIII (101, 117); male sternite VIII (102, 118); female tergite VIII (103, 110–111, 114, 121); female sternite VIII (104, 112, 115, 122); median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (105–106, 119–120); apical portion of median lobe of aedeagus in ventral view (107); paramere (108); spermatheca (109, 113, 116, 123). Scale bars: 101–104, 110–112, 114–115, 117–122: 0.5 mm; 105–108, 113, 116, 119–120: 0.2 mm; 109, 123: 0.1 mm.