Eusphalerum anale (ERICHSON 1840)

Zanetti, A., 2008, Synonymies in the European Omaliinae, with notes on distribution (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1), pp. 979-992 : 981

Eusphalerum anale (ERICHSON 1840)

Anthobium anale ERICHSON 1840

Eusphalerum subangusticolle COIFFAIT 1959 nov.syn. Type (male) Col de la Cayolle VII A.U.(?) 38 / holotype (red) / E. subangusticolle / Museum Paris (MNHNP) (Fig. 4).

C o m m e n t s: In the original description COIFFAIT (1959) wrote: "Insect ayant un faciès voisin de celui d’ anale mais un édéage voisin de celui d’ angusticolle ". The holotype of the species was not dissected by COIFFAIT, its aedeagus demonstrates that subangusticolle is a synonym of anale. Similarly, a topotype of subangusticolle identified by Coiffait and conserved in the Muséum d´Histoire Naturelle de Genève is anale. The lectotype of anale was designated by ZANETTI (1980).