Xantholinus (Calolinus) sidonensis Coiffait, 1956

Assing, Volker, 2007, On the Xantholinini of Turkey and adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), Zootaxa 1474, pp. 1-54 : 18

Xantholinus (Calolinus) sidonensis Coiffait, 1956 a

( Fig. 27 )

Type material examined. Holotype: ɗ, " Liban, Saida, H. Coiffait, 9.XI.51 / Holotype / Museum Paris" ( MNHNP).

Additional material examined: ISRAEL: 1ɗ, Upper Galilee, North District, Ha Khula Valley, Ma'agar Einan lake, 33°05'N, 35°35'E, 73 m, toe of dam, in moist loamy soil, 1.–2.V.2006, leg. Wrase (cAss).

Comment. The species was originally described from Lebanon and later also reported from Cyprus and Turkey ( Bordoni 1971, 1976a; Herman 2001; Smetana 2004). The record from Turkey ( Bordoni 1971, 1976a), however, is in fact from the Greek island Meyísti off the coast of western Antalya province and would consequently refer to Greece, not Turkey. The aedeagus of the specimen is mounted on a separate slide and was made available to me by Arnaldo Bordoni; it clearly does not refer to X. sidonensis . Consequently, the species is deleted from the list of Turkish Staphylinidae . Xantholinus sidonensis is here recorded from Israel for the first time. The aedeagus of the holotype is illustrated in Fig. 27 .

Figures

FIGURES 23 – 30. Xantholinus reitteri Coiffait (23 – 26), X. sidonensis Coiffait, holotype (27), and X. rufipennis Erichson (28 – 30; 28 – 29: lectotype, 30: male from Cyprus): 23, 27, 29 – 30 — aedeagus in dorsal view; 24 — aedeagus in lateral view; 25 — distal internal structures of aedeagus; 26 — distal internal structures of aedeagus in lateral view; 28 — habitus. Scale bars: 28: 1.0 mm; 23 – 25, 27, 29 – 30: 0.5 mm; 26: 0.2 mm.