Pseudolathra fissa, Assing, 2013

Assing, Volker, 2018, A revision of Palaearctic and Oriental Pseudolathra. V. Two new species from Cambodia and Thailand, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2), pp. 1005-1014 : 1006

Pseudolathra fissa ASSING, 2013 ( Figs 7-8 ) Pseudolathra ceylonica ROUGEMONT, 2015: 1792; nov.syn. M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: India: 20 exs. [partly more or less distinctly teneral], Tamil Nadu,

Vilupparam District, Auroville, Discipline vill., 12°0.7'N, 79°47.97'E, 1.XI.-31.XII.2013 (NME,

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C o m m e n t: The original description of P. fissa is based on material from two localities in Tamil Nadu ( ASSING 2013a), that of P. ceylonica on two males and four females from Sri Lanka ( ROUGEMONT 2015). According to ROUGEMONT (2015), P. ceylonica is distinguished from P. fissa by slight differences in the apical structures of the aedeagus and by the shape of the ventral process. However, the apical structures of the aedeagus are subject to some intraspecific variation and the illustrations provided by ROUGEMONT (2015: figures 10al2, 10av 2) do not show any differences in the shape of the ventral process. For comparison, the aedeagus of one of the non-type specimens listed above is illustrated in Figs 7-8 . In consequence, the type material of P. ceylonica is undoubtedly conspecific with that of P. fissa . Some of the above specimens are teneral.

Figures

Figs 1-8: Pseudolathra armigera nov.sp. (1-6) and P. fissa ASSING (7-8): (1) habitus; (2) forebody; (3) male sternite VII; (4) male sternite VIII; (5-8) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view. Scale bars: 1-2: 1.0 mm; 3-4: 0.5 mm; 5-8: 0.2 mm.