Aleochara (Xenochara) pernigra SCHUBERT , 1906

Assing, V., 2009, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Aleochara species of the subgenera Xenochara M & R and Rheochara M & R (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1), pp. 33-101 : 88

Aleochara (Xenochara) pernigra SCHUBERT, 1906 ( Figs 187-196)

Aleochara pernigra SCHUBERT, 1906: 378 .

Type material examined:

Lectotype ♀, present designation: " Kashmir. Songam. K. Rost. / Aleochara pernigra . Schubert II.1906. / Type / Hololectotypus Aleochara pernigra Schubert, Zb. Likovský det. 1965 / Lectotypus ♀ Aleochara pernigra Schubert , desig. V. Assing 2009 / Aleochara pernigra Schubert , det. V. Assing 2009" ( MNHUB) . Paralectotype ♀: same data, but " Paralectotypus " ( MNHUB) .

Additional material examined:

Mongolia: A ♀, 126 km N Ulan-Baator , 1100 m, 9.VII.1964, leg. Kaszab ( HNHM) .

Kyrgyzstan: 6 exs., Issyk-Kul , Terskej Alatau, Ottuk valley, 42°16'N, 79°03'E, 2900 m, 26.-27.VII.2005, leg. Schmidt (cAss) .

China: 14 exs., Qinghai, Yunning Si [lamasery], 36°46'N, 102°11'E, 2890 m, moist coniferous forest, bait- ed pitfall traps (fish), 1.-16.VII.2005, leg. Hájek et al. (cSch, cAss) .

Comment:

The original description is based on an unspecified number of syntypes from "Kashmir (Songam)" ( SCHUBERT 1906). Two syntypes, both of them females, were located in the collections of the MNHUB. These specimens were studied by LIKOVSKÝ (1965c), who attached lectotype labels to them, but never published the designation. The female in better condition is here designated as the lectotype; its spermatheca is illustrated in Fig. 196.

Redescription:

In external characters, this species much resembles species of the A. sparsa group, from which it is reliably separated only by the sexual characters:

♂: posterior margin of tergite VIII concave ( Fig. 187); sternite VIII posteriorly distinctly produced in the middle ( Fig. 188); median lobe of aedeagus as in Figs. 189-191.

♀: posterior margin of tergite VIII weakly concave ( Fig. 192), that of sternite VIII convex ( Fig. 193); spermatheca as in Figs 194-196.

Distribution:

This species was previously known from Kashmir, Mongolia, and the Altai range in Siberia ( LIKOVSKÝ 1971) and is here reported from Kyrgyzstan, the whole of Middle Asia, and China for the first time.