Omaliopsis himalayica ( Cameron, 1924 )

Shavrin, Alexey V., 2019, Three new species and a new combination in the genus Omaliopsis Jeannel, 1940 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Omaliini) of China and Nepal, Zootaxa 4603 (2), pp. 354-364 : 361

Omaliopsis himalayica ( Cameron, 1924)

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Phyllodrepa himalayica Cameron, 1924: 166

Phloeonomus (Xylostiba) himalayicus: Cameron, 1930: 146

Omaliopsis himalayica: Thayer 2015: 19

Type material examined: The cotype of Phyllodrepa himalayica Cameron, 1924 ♀ [specimen without left ely- tron]: ‘Chakrata Dist. | Chulli Khud 8000`’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Dr. Cameron | 17. V. 22.’ <rectangular la- bel, printed>, ‘ Phyllodrepa | himalayica | Cam[eron]’ <rectangular label, handwritted in black India ink>, ‘Cotypus | Cameron’ <red rectangular label, handwritten in black India ink>, ‘Chicago NHMus | M.Bernhauer | Collection’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘FMNH-INS | 0 0 0 0 0 18 904’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Omaliopsis [handwrit- ten] | himalayica [handwritten] | (Cameron) [handwritten] | M.K. Thayer det. 1993’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ SYNTYPE | teste D.J.Clarke2014 | GDI Imaging Project’ <violet rectangular label, printed>, ‘PHOTOGRAPHED | Kelsey Keaton 2014 | Emu Catalog’ <blue rectangular label, printed> (FMNH). The photographs of habitus and type labels are available in the Arthropod Collections Database of FMNH: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/arthropod/coleop.php (last Access: 17.04.2019).

Remarks. Phyllodrepa (s.str.) himalayica Cameron, 1924 was described based on an unspecified number of syntypes from “Chakrata District, 6500 to 8000 feet; Simla Hills, 9000 feet above the sea” from the North India (Uttarakhand). Later, it was redescribed by the same author ( Cameron 1930). The species is only known from the type locality ( Fig. 22 ); the records of the species from Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal (Uttar Pradesh) of India by Sch̹lke & Smetana (2015) are incorrect.

Figures

FIGURE 22. Distribution of Omaliopsis in Asia: O. amplimaculata sp.n (white circle), O. bimaculata sp.n. (black circle), O. himalayica (Cameron, 1924) (black square), O. musaphila (Rougemont, 2017) (white square), O. schmidti sp.n. (black triangle).