Lithocharis mateui COIFFAIT , 1968

Assing, Volker, 2015, A revison of the Lithocharis species of the Palaearctic, Oriental and Australian regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Medonina), Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (2), pp. 1133-1178 : 1137-1138

Lithocharis mateui COIFFAIT, 1968 ( Figs 1-7 )

Lithocharis mateui COIFFAIT, 1968: 142 ff.

Type material examined Holotype ♂: " Tchad Borkou, Bir Nazara, Mateu 5.8.58 / Holotype / Lithocharis mateui Coiff., H. Coiffait det. 1966" ( MNHNP) . Paratype ♀: same data as holotype, but with "Allotype" label.

Additional material examined Tchad: 1♂, Tibesti, SW L. Sière, Totous, 1.X.1956, leg. Miré (MNHNP) . Yemen: 6 exs., Al Hudaydah gov., Jabal Bura valley forest NP, 14°52'N, 43°25'E, 240-350 m, stream valley, 4.XI.2010, leg. Bezděk (NMP, cAss) . Iran: 1♂, Minab, 17.X.1966, leg. Gaillot ( MNHNP). Saudi Arabia: 7 exs. [1♂ without aedeagus and without palisade setae at the posterior margin of sternite VII], Al-Hejaz ["Hedjaz"] ( BMNH, cAss). Pakistan: 1♂, Baluchistan, Zhob Valley , sand desert, 27.-31.VIII.2008, leg. Gurko (cSch) ; 1♂, Northwest Frontier Province, South Waziristan agency, near Tanai village , 1500-2500 m, 28.VII.- 12.VIII.2005, leg. Gurko (cAss) .

Comment: According to COIFFAIT (1968), the type material is composed of a male holotype and two female paratypes from "Borkou, Bir Nazara" and one male paratype from "Ennedi, guelta de Guir Kaqué". The above material from Tibesti and Iran was standing as L. fontinalis in the Jarrige collection at the MNHNP. For an additional record from Yemen see ASSING (2012b). The habitus and the primary and secondary sexual characters of the holotype are illustrated in Figs 1-7 .

Figures

Figs 1-7: Lithocharis mateui COIFFAIT, holotype: (1) habitus; (2) male sternite VII; (3) male sternite VIII; (4) posterior portion of male sternite VIII; (5-6) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view; (7) basal portion of ventral process in ventral view. Scale bars: 1: 1.0 mm; 2-6: 0.2 mm; 7: 0.1 mm.