Borboropora reitteri ( WEISE 1877)

Assing, V. & J, Cordalia, 2009, New species and additional records of Palaearctic Falagriini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (1), pp. 471-480 : 473

Borboropora reitteri ( WEISE 1877) ( Figs 1-5 , Map 1 )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d Italy: 1♀, Sardinia, Aritzo, leg. Paganetti (NHMW). Czech Republic: 1♀, Vrané n. Vl., leg. Krása (cSme). Romania: 1♀, "Locaya" [today Bocşa, 45°22'N, 21°43'] (NHMW). Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1♀, "Central-Bosnien", leg. Reitter (HNHM).

C o m m e n t: The genus Borboropora KRAATZ 1862 currently includes only three species, all of them distributed in the Western Palaearctic region and all of them rare to extremely rare (ASSING in press; SMETANA 2004): the widespread type species B. kraatzi FUSS 1862, the recently described B. myrmecophila ASSING in press (southern Anatolia), and B. reitteri .

The original description of B. reitteri is based on a single holotype specimen from "den transsylvanischen Alpen bei Oberkerz" deposited in the Weise collection ( WEISE 1877). The Staphylinidae from the Weise collection are deposited in the "Dt. Ent. Inst. Berlin ", today the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut in Müncheberg ( HORN et al. 1990). However, according to the curator in charge, the holotype cannot be found (ZERCHE pers. comm.) and a subsequent search in the collections of the HNHM, where the Reitter collection is deposited, did not yield any results either (MAKRANCZY pers. comm.), suggesting that the holotype is probably lost. The forebody and the previously unknown female sexual characters are illustrated in Figs 1-5 ; males have not become available for study.

Records of this species are extremely rare. After the original description, B. reitteri had only once been reported again from the Czech Republic ( HORION 1967). The above specimens from Sardinia and Bosnia represent first records from Italy and Bosnia- Herzegovina. The currently known distribution is illustrated in Map 1 .

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Map 1: Distribution of Borboropora reitteri (WEISE); the record from Bosnia-Herzegovina without specified locality is placed near Sarajevo.

Figs 1-5: Borboropora reitteri (WEISE) (Sardinia): (1) forebody; (2) antenna; (3) posterior portion of female tergite VIII; (4) female sternite VIII; (5) spermatheca. Scale bars: 1: 0.5 mm; 2-4: 0.2 mm; 5: 0.1 mm.