Aleochara (Xenochara) rambouseki LIKOVSKÝ , 1964

Assing, Volker, 2017, A revision of types and additional material of Staphylinidae from the Iablokoff-Khnzorian collection (Insecta: Coleoptera), Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (1), pp. 333-340 : 338

Aleochara (Xenochara) rambouseki LIKOVSKÝ, 1964

Aleochara (Polychara) rambouseki LIKOVSKÝ, 1964: 35 ff.

Aleochara (Polychara) addenda LIKOVSKÝ, 1981: 365 f.; nov.syn.

Aleochara (Xenochara) hamulata ASSING, 2009: 74 ff.; nov.syn.

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: A. rambouseki : see ASSING (2011).

A. addenda : Paratype 3: " Ordubad, Sady / Paratypus / Paratypus Aleochara addenda m., det. Z. Likovský 1973 / Aleochara rambouseki Likovský , det. V. Assing 2017 " (cKal).

A. hamulata : see ASSING (2009).

C o m m e n t: Aleochara rambouseki was described based on a single female collected in South Macedonia. Based on a revision of the unique female holotype, ASSING (2011) already suspected that the specimen may be conspecific with A. hamulata , a species described recently based on material from Croatia, Greece, Turkey, and Iraq ( ASSING 2009). The original description of A. addenda is based on a male holotype and two male paratypes from " Armenien, Ordubad ", a locality today situated in Azerbaijan; the species is erroneously listed for Armenia in SCHÜLKE & SMETANA (2015).

A revision of one of the male paratypes of A. addenda revealed that it is conspecific with A. hamulata . As pointed out earlier ( ASSING 2011), the spermatheca of A. hamulata is practically identical to that of the holotype of A. rambouseki . Since the type locality of A. rambouseki is within the known range of A. hamulata and there is no evidence of a close relative of A. hamulata occurring in the Balkans, the holotype of A. rambouseki is hypothesized to represent a nanistic specimen and to be conspecific with the type material of both A. hamulata and A. addenda . Hence the synonymies proposed above.