Phloeocharis microptera FAUVEL , 1898

Assing, Volker, 2015, A new species of Phloeocharis MANNERHEIM from Spain, with a note on P. brachyptera SHARP (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Phloeocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1), pp. 57-62 : 58

Phloeocharis microptera FAUVEL, 1898 ( Figs 1-7 )

Phloeocharis microptera FAUVEL, 1898: 156 .

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d France: 233, Pyrénées-Orientales, Canigou, 2710 m, crête du Barbet, sifted from grass roots, 11.VI.1999, leg. Tronquet (cAss).

C o m m e n t: The original description is based on an unspecified number of syntypes from "Pyrénées-Orientales: Canigou, au tunnel de Belage" ( FAUVEL 1898). The above specimens are in full agreement with the details indicated in the description and were collected close to the type locality, so that there is little doubt that they are conspecific with the type material. The habitus and the male sexual characters are illustrated in Figs 1-7 ; for a colour image of the habitus see TRONQUET (2006). Phloeocharis microptera is endemic to the eastern Pyrenees; the record from the Sierra de Gredos ( STRUYVE 2012) refers to a previously undescribed species.

Figures

Figs 1-15: Phloeocharis microptera (1-7), P. gredosensis (8-13), and P. brachyptera (14-15): (1, 8) habitus; (2, 9) (posterior portion of) male sternite VIII; (3-4, 10, 14-15) aedeagus in lateral view (15 with parameres removed); (5-6, 11-12) (apical portion of) aedeagus in ventral view; (7, 13) apex of ventral process in lateral view. Scale bars: 1, 8: 1.0 mm; 2-7, 9-15: 0.1 mm.