Xantholinus (Calolinus) puthzi Bordoni, 1979

Assing, Volker, 2007, On the Xantholinini of Turkey and adjacent regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), Zootaxa 1474, pp. 1-54 : 22

Xantholinus (Calolinus) puthzi Bordoni, 1979

( Figs. 58 , 104–107 )

Type material examined. Holotype: ɗ, "S-Anatolien, Kilikischer Taurus, Sertavul-Paß, ca. 1600 m, 13.5.1970, Zwick / Holotypus / Xantholinus (Calolinus) puthzi n. sp. Det. A. Bordoni 1979 " (cBor).

Comment. The original description is based on a male holotype and two female paratypes from "Kilikischer Taurus, Sertaval [recte: Sertavul] Pass" ( Bordoni 1979). Previous requests for a loan of the holotype had been denied, so that the identification of specimens earlier recorded from Antalya and Kahramanmaraş and tentatively attributed to X. puthzi by Assing (2006a) had to rely on the details indicated in the original description, especially the illustration of the aedeagus. An examination of the holotype, however, revealed that they refer to different species (see below).

Diagnosis. Measurements (in mm) and ratios (holotype): HL: 1.48; HW: 1.19; PW: 1.13; PL: 1.56; EL: 1.06; EW: 1.43; AW: 1.34; ML: 1.09; TL: 9.6; HL/HW: 1.24; PW/HW: 0.95; PL/PW: 1.37; EL/PL: 0.68; EW/ PW: 1.27; AW/EW: 0.94.

Habitus and forebody as in Figs. 104–105 . External characters similar to those of the following species (see the respective comparative notes).

ɗ: posterior margin of tergite VIII weakly concave; aedeagus relatively small in relation to body and smaller than in the following species (see measurements); internal structures composed of two relatively short median rows composed of about 10 and 5 rather stout and distinctly curved spines, respectively, proximally with few additional weakly curved spines, subdistally with a cluster of about 10 distinctly sclerotised long, slender, and weakly curved spines, and distally with a cluster of approximately 10 relatively short, straight, semi-transparent spines ( Figs. 106–107 ).

Figures

FIGURE 58. Distributions of Xantholinus ibex sp. n. (filled circles), X. penicillatus sp. n. (open circles), X. puthzi Bordoni (open square), and X. marasicus sp. n. (filled square) in Turkey.

FIGURES 101 – 107. Xantholinus procerus Erichson (101 – 103; 101 – 102: lectotype; 103: paralectotype) and X. puthzi Bordoni, holotype (104 – 107): 101, 104 — habitus; 102 – 103, 106 — aedeagus in dorsal view; 105 — forebody; 107 — distal part of internal structures of aedeagus. Scale bars: 101: 2.0 mm; 104 – 105: 1.0 mm; 102 – 103, 106: 0.5 mm; 107: 0.1 mm.