Anotylus inustus ( Gravenhorst, 1806 )

Wang, Lin-Fei, Zhou, Hong-Zhang & Lü, Liang, 2017, Revision of the Anotylus sculpturatus group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) with descriptions of seven new species from China, Zootaxa 4351 (1), pp. 1-79 : 62-64

Anotylus inustus ( Gravenhorst, 1806)

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Gravenhorst, 1806: 188 ( Oxytelus ; variety of carinatus; Type locality: Not cited); Scheerpeltz, 1956: 1093 ( Oxytelus ; subgenus Anotylus ; Greece; Cyprus); Lohse, 1964: 85 ( Oxytelus ; subgenus Anotylus ; characters; central Europe); Herman, 1970: 418 ( Anotylus ); Tóth, 1987: 228 ( Anotylus ; Carpathian Basin); Schülke & Uhlig, 1988: 5 ( Anotylus ; Germany); Tagliapietra, 1999: 521 ( Anotylus ; lectotype designated); Herman, 2001: 1361 ( Anotylus ; catalog); Smetana, 2004: 514 ( Anotylus ; Palaearctic catalog; distribution); Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 771 ( Anotylus ; Palaearctic catalog; distribution).

Syn.: Bledius maxillosus Sperk, 1835: 154 (Type locality: Odessa); Fauvel, 1876: 57 ( Oxytelus ; synonym of inustus ).

Oxytelus excavatus Motschulsky, 1857: 503 (Type locality: Algérie); Fauvel, 1878: 94 ( Oxytelus ; Algeria); Fauvel, 1886: 22 ( Oxytelus ; Algeria); Fauvel, 1902: 67 ( Oxytelus ; Algeria); Bernhauer & Schubert, 1911: 124 ( Platystethus ; synonym of oxytelinus); Hammond, 1976a: 162 ( Anotylus ; synonym of inustus ).

Material examined. 1 male, Cyprus// Nicosia 14. I. 34 Th. Shiakides// Coll. Under slenes//980// Oxytelus inustus Grav. // Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822167 Field Museum. (FMNH); EUROPE: 1 male, GREECE: Bassai, /Peloponesos/ 1100 m. 20. IV. 1981 B. Malkin// Staphylinidae Anotylus inustus Grav. Det. Marcin Smolenski // FMNHINS 2822125 Field Museum (FMNH); 2 males, Capri. 1899 Münster. // inustus // CNHM 1955 Eduard Knirsch Palaearctic Colln. // Anotylus inustus Grav. // FMNHINS 2822228–29 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 male, Monfalcone Meer Istr. // Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822222 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 female, Monchique, Algarve. 6–13. May 1910 (K. Jordan). // Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822251 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 male, Ancona// inustus Grav det. Bernh// Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822232 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 male, Candia Krteta, Holtz// inustus det. Bernh// Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822153 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 male, Cephalouia Samos// lg. Winkler// inustus Grav // Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822154 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 female, same data, FMNHINS 2822204 Field Museum; 1 male, Attica Athen Stussiner// inustus Grav det. Bernh// Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822155 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 female, 1 male, Kephallinia A. Winkler// inustus Grav der. Bernhauer// Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822190–91 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 male, Corfu V. d. Ropa// inustus Grav // Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822193 Field Museum (FMNH); 4 males, ghaecia phaleron// CNHM Colln. Purchased ex Ewald Reitter// FMNHINS 2822194–97 Field Museum (FMNH); 2 males, 1 female, same data, FMNHINS 2822199–201 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 male, Thessalia Volo Stussiner// inustus Grav det. Bernh// Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822196 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 female, 1 male, Cattaro// CNHM 1955 Karl Brancsik Colln. ex Eduard Knirsch// FMNHINS 2822250 Field Museum (FMNH); 4 exs., Pietsh 9.95 Riesengbg Sil// CNHM 1955 Karl Brancsik Colln. ex Eduard Knirsch// FMNHINS 2822187 Field Museum (FMNH); 3 exs.,Corfu// Hummler// inustus // Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822157 Field Museum (FMNH); 4 exs., Kephallenia 1905 Dronganali O. Leonnard.// Kephallenia 1905 Dronganali O. Leonnard.// inustus Grav det. Bernhau// Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822156 Field Museum (FMNH); 4 exs., Sicilia 1906 Ficuzza O. Leonhard// inustus det. Bernh// Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822241 Field Museum (FMNH); 2 male, Grünburg, O. Oe. [Ober-Österreich] Bernhauer// inustus det. Bernh. // Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822164–65 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 female, same data, FMNHINS 2822163 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 ex., Apfelbeck Trebinje// inustus Gr. det. Bernh// Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822207 Field Museum (FMNH); 1 ex., Apfelb. Jablanica// inustus Gr. det. Bernh// Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822206 Field Museum. (FMNH); Africa: 1 male, Marocco. Tanger 25–29 4 26 Lindberg// inustus Gr. det. Lindbe// inustus det. Bernh// FMNHINS 2822245 Field Museum (FMNH); 6 exs., Constantine Algérie III. 1931 Dr. R. Meyer// inustus Gr. det. Bernh// Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection// FMNHINS 2822208–13 Field Museum. (FMNH).

Redescription. Body black, fairly shiny; elytra brownish with base black; legs brown. Forebody pubescent, densely punctate and slightly striate. Body length [average] male, 3.52 mm; female, 3.20 mm.

Male: Head (Fig. 18-1C, 18-2A) weakly broader than pronotum. Disc slightly convex, with big round punctures, and short longitudinal striae besides; mid-longitudinal sulcus shallow and short, with much shallower impression on each side before base. Supra-antennal ridge with margin incrassate. Temples dilated, approximately two times as long as eyes. Clypeus nearly square, about 1/3 of total head length, slightly convex and glabrous, with spase small punctures; anterior margin nearly straight, and not much produced. Epistomal suture with lateral portions shallow, running backward to level of anterior margin of eyes.

Occipital suture curved forward in middle. Antenna filiform, segment IV globular, V–X short and transverse, with ultimate article stilliform. Neck with smooth area carrying large punctures, much bigger than on head.

Pronotum (Fig. 18-1D, 18-2A) transverse, broadest at near anterior 1/3, with moderate-sized round punctures and striae, denser at sides; median sulcus straight and deep, with two shallower and broader paramedial sulci, bounded by two obtusely rounded and flat longitudinal carinae, with two depressions close to lateral margins. Anterior margin straight and anterior angles not produced. Lateral and posterior margins running continuously, posterior angles not observable. Lateral margin weakly crenate on posterior half or not at all. Scutellum with crestshaped impression with sharply pointed median lobe. Elytra densely striate and punctate, not pubescent; lateral margin curved and posterior margins truncate and slightly slant. Abdomen coriaceous, covered with punctures and pubescence. Sternite VII (Fig. 18-1G, 18-2C) with posterior margin broadly emarginate and bearing long setae laterally, in middle with two small tubercles slightly beyond posterior margin; sternite VIII (Fig. 18-1H, 18-2D) with posterior margin broadly bi-emariginate and bearing long setae laterally, shortly and acutely angulate in middle, middle tip not beyond lateral angles posteriorly.

Aedeagus (Fig. 18-1J–L, 18-3A–C) with median lobe oval, inflated at base and shortly narrowing to apex; apical orifice large and ventral orifice crescentic; internal sac of median lobe with complicated sclerite. Parameres (Fig. 18-1M, 18-3D) flattened and enlarged, furnished with a few pubescence, closely situated and twining around median lobe; apex with a pinch of seta; with large seta in middle and rounded process near base of ventral edge.

Female. Head (Fig. 18-1E, 18-2B) smaller than male, narrower than pronotum (Fig. 18-1F, 18-2B), and disc flat. Temples shorter, as long as eyes. Sternite VII (Fig. 18-2E) with posterior margin straight, and attached some long setae laterally. Sternite VIII (Fig. 18-1I, 18-2F) with posterior margin broadly bi-emarginate and obtusely angulate in middle, with middle process slightly beyond lateral angles posteriorly. Spermatheca (Fig. 18-1N, 18- 3E) with base bulb-like, with apical part clavate and slightly curved.

Distribution. Afghanistan, Iran, Cyprus, Russia, Turkey, Europe, Faroe Islands, Syria, Algeria.