Meotica pallens ( REDTENBACHER , 1849), Redtenbacher, 1849

Assing, Volker & Vogel, Jürgen, 2019, The mother of synonyms: on the Meotica species of the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Oxypodini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 731-772 : 753

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3738506

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3811225

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scientific name

Meotica pallens ( REDTENBACHER , 1849)
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Meotica pallens ( REDTENBACHER, 1849) View in CoL

( Figs 29-31 View Figs 29-38 )

Homalota pallens REDTENBACHER, 1849: 662 View in CoL .

Sipalia filaria CASEY, 1911: 150 .

Homalota indocilis HEER, 1839: 333 View in CoL .

Sipalia tenuis MULSANT & REY, 1875b: 194 View in CoL .

Meotica lohsei BENICK, 1953: 66 View in CoL f.; synonymy by MUONA (1991) and VOGEL (1991).

Meotica hanseni BENICK, 1953: 64 View in CoL f.; nov.syn.

Meotica hanseni SCHEERPELTZ, 1954a: 58 View in CoL ; preoccupied; synonymy by MUONA (1991) and VOGEL (1991).

Meotica strandi SCHEERPELTZ, 1958: 207 View in CoL ; synonymy by MUONA (1991).

Meotica titschjacki BENICK, 1962:118 View in CoL ; synonymy by VOGEL (1991).

Material examined: NORWAY: 1♀, 55 km N Oslo, Roa , 3.VI.1961, leg. Strand (cVog) . SWEDEN: 1♀, SW Stockholm, Södertälje , 24.VII.1977, leg. Lundberg (cVog) . FRANCE: 1♂, 2♀♀, Vosges, Lignéville , 6.IV.1926 (cVog) . GERMANY: several records. POLAND: 1♀, Węgliniec ( SMNG) . SWITZERLAND: 1 ex., Vaud, Yverdon-les-Bains , 08.III.1966, leg. Comellini ( MHNG) . AUSTRIA:V o r a r l b e r g:1♂,WBregenz,shoreof Bodensee, Speicherwiesen , 14.V.1999, leg. Assing (cAss) ; 1♂, Höchst, NSG Rohrspitz , 25.X.1993, leg. Kapp (cVog) ; 1♂, Rankweil , leg. Kapp (cVog) ; 1♀, Bregenz, Lochau , 16.V.1999, leg. Gollkowski (cVog) . CZECH REPUBLIC: 1♀, Františkovy Láznĕ, Soos , 18.IX.1960, leg. Smetana (cVog) ; 1♀, Nový Bor env., Pihel , 13.IV.1979, leg. Sieber (cVog) . SLOVAKIA: 1♀, Banska Bystrica , leg. Roubal (cVog) . HUNGARY: 1♂, 2♀♀, Balatongyörök , 25.V.1995, leg. Sieber (cVog) . ITALY: Trentino - Alto Adige: 7 exs., Bolzano, Gries-San Quirino , 17.V.1956, leg. Peez ( TLMF) ; 3 exs., Bressanone, floodplain of Eisack river , 17.III.1953, 22.X.1955 & 10.IV.1956, leg. Peez ( TLMF) ; 1 ex., Merano , “Burgstaller Aue”, 24.XI.1990, leg. Kahlen ( TLMF) ; 1♀, 14 km S Bolzano, Lago di Caldaro , 14.III.1971, leg. Kahlen (cVog) . BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: 2♂♂, 4♀♀, Sarajevo env., Gromiljak , car-net, 6.V.1990, leg. Wunderle (cWun, cAss) ; 1♀ Kraljeva-Sutesca-Zadoici, car-net, 5.V.1990,. leg. Wunderle (cWun). TURKEY: 1♀, Balıkesir, Kurucam Tepe , 39°42'N, 27°09'E, 710 m, 13.IV.2010, leg. Brachat & Meybohm (cAss) GoogleMaps ; 3♀♀, Muğla, Gölgeli Dağları , 20 km NE Köycegız, 37°03'N, 28°49'E, 1690 m, 6.X.2002, leg. Assing (cAss) GoogleMaps ; 1♀, Zonguldak, Ereğli , 15.V.1976, leg. Besuchet & Löbl (cVog) ; 1♀, Erzincan, Tercan, Euphrate , 1400 m, 6.VI.1986, leg. Besuchet & Löbl (cVog) .

Comment: BENICK (1953) attributed M. hanseni to SCHEERPELTZ (1954), but in providing and publishing characters and a name prior to SCHEERPELTZ (1954) he unintentionally made the name available, rendering M. hanseni SCHEERPELTZ, 1954 a junior primary homonym. It is an open question, however, whether the material cited by BENICK (1953) or that mentioned by SCHEERPELTZ (1954) should be considered the type material of M. hanseni BENICK, 1953. In any case, since the type material of M. hanseni SCHEERPELTZ, 1954 is conspecific with M. pallens ( MUONA 1991, VOGEL 1991) and BENICK (1953) regarded the material listed in his description as conspecific with that examined by SCHEERPELTZ (1954), it follows that both of the names made available by Benick and Scheerpeltz refer to the same species and are junior synonyms of M. pallens .

Diagnosis: Wing-dimorphic species.

♂: sternite VIII weakly transverse, approximately as long as tergite VIII, posterior margin truncate or weakly concave; median lobe of aedeagus relatively large, approximately 0.35 mm long and shaped as in Figs 29-30 View Figs 29-38 ; apical lobe of paramere blackish.

♀: posterior margin of sternite VIII convex; spermatheca relatively long and of distinctive shape ( Fig. 31 View Figs 29-38 ).

Confirmed distribution: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Turkey; North America.

SMNG

Senckenberg Museum fuer Naturkunde Goerlitz

MHNG

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

TLMF

Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Meotica

Loc

Meotica pallens ( REDTENBACHER , 1849)

Assing, Volker & Vogel, Jürgen 2019
2019
Loc

Meotica strandi

SCHEERPELTZ O 1958: 207
1958
Loc

Meotica hanseni

SCHEERPELTZ O 1954: 58
1954
Loc

Meotica lohsei

BENICK G 1953: 66
1953
Loc

Meotica hanseni

BENICK G 1953: 64
1953
Loc

Homalota pallens REDTENBACHER, 1849: 662

REDTENBACHER L 1849: 662
1849
Loc

Sipalia filaria

CASEY, 1911: 150
Loc

Homalota indocilis

HEER, 1839: 333
Loc

Sipalia tenuis

MULSANT & REY, 1875b: 194
Loc

Meotica titschjacki

BENICK, 1962:118
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