Cephennium minutissimum (SAULCY, 1864)

Assing, Volker, 2021, On the Cephennium fauna of the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic Islands (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 891-931 : 917

Cephennium minutissimum (SAULCY, 1864) ( Map 2 )

Material from Spain examined by C. Besuchet (unpubl.): SPAIN: Cataluña: 1♂, Barcelona, Vilasar ("Mus. Barcelone"). Baleares: 1♂, 1♀, Mallorca, Felanitx, leg. Zariquiey (" Mus. Barcelone ", coll. Normand) ; 2♀♀, Mallorca, Beniatzar, leg. Buñola ("Mus. Barcelone", coll. Palm) ; 1♀, Mallorca, Son Puigdorfila ( MHNG) .

According to SCHÜLKE & SMETANA (2015), this widespread anophthalmous species has been reported from Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, and Algeria. For numerous records and illustrations of the male sexual characters see OROUSSET (2018). The distribution in Spain based on Besuchet (unpubl.) is illustrated in Map 2 .

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Map 2: Distributions of Cephennium spp. of the C. caecum and C. tensum groups in the Iberian Peninsula and the Baleares, based on Besuchet (unpubl.), OROUSSET (2018), and examined material: C. atomarium (black circles); C. coiffaiti (white circles); C. caecum (black triangles); C. hypogaeum (white diamond); C. minutissimum (white stars); C. catalonicum (black diamonds); C. filabresicum (black star); C. andujari (white triangle).