Sunius cercii, Anlaş, Sinan, 2019

Anlaş, Sinan, 2019, On The Genus Sunius Stephens, 1829 Of Turkey Vii. Two New Micropterous Species From Southern Anatolia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Paederinae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 65 (3), pp. 235-242 : 238-241

Sunius cercii sp. n.

( Figs 9–16, 17)

Typematerial – Holotype: TURKEY: m, ‘‘TR. Konya, Hadim, Çiftepınar 5 36°58’21”N, 32°41’05”E, 1990 m, 03.V.2018, leg. Örgel & Yaman / Holotypus m, Sunius

sp. n. det. S. Anlaş 2019” ( AZMM). Paratypes: 3 m , 11 f, samedataasholotype (AZMM

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NHMO). TURKEY: 1 m, 10 f, TR. Karaman, Ermenek, Balkusan , 36°48’43”N, 32°53’35”E 1890 m, 02. V.2018, by MSS traps, leg. Örgel & Yaman ( AZMM, NHMO) .

Etymology – ThespecificepithethonorsBarışÇerci, Ankara, aspecialistonHeteroptera, whohascarriedoutimportantentomologicalresearchesinTurkey.

Description – HabitusasinFig. 9. Smallspecies, bodylength 2.4–2.7 mm, similarto S. orgeli , butdistinguishedasfollows:

Headoblong ( Figs 9-10), approximately 1.20–1.25 timesaslongaswide; antennae approximately 0.68–0.74 mmlong. Pronotumapproximately 0.95 timesaswideashead ( Figs 9–10). Elytra ( Figs 9–10) slightly (approximately 1.05 times) widerthanpronotum andatsutureabout 0.70–0.75 timesaslongaspronotum. Abdomenapproximatelyaswide aselytra ( Fig. 9).

m: sterniteVIIinposteriormedianareaveryslightlyconcaveandwithoutmodified setae, ( Fig. 11); posteriormarginofsterniteVIIIwithrelativelywideemargination, poste- riorlywithmedianclusterofveryweakpubescence, withouttubercule ( Fig. 12); aedeagus approximately 0.32–0.35 mmlong, shapedasinFigs 13–16, withapicalportionofventral processdentate, withbroaderandstouterventralprocessinlateralview; internalsacwith aseriesofsixmixedlargeandsmallspines.

Comparativenotes – Thespeciescanbedistinguishedfromallitsconge- ners by the different shape of the ventral process of the aedeagus and by the shapeofthespinesoftheinternalsac. Basedonthesimilarmorphologyof themaleprimaryandsecondarysexualcharacters, thenewspeciesisclosely relatedto S. yamani Anlaş, 2018 ( Konya, Derebucak), S. ulcerosus Assing, 2011 ( Isparta, DedegölMountains) and S. brachati Assing, 2003 ( Antalya, Finike) Thenewspeciesisreadilyseparatedfromthesespeciesasfollows:

From S. yamani by the slender ventral process of the aedeagus in lateral view, bythedifferentshapeandtheseriesofsixuniformlysizedspinesin theinternalsac (in S. yamani : internalsacwithaseriesoffivemixedlargeand smallspines).

From S. ulcerosus by the absence of a tubercule on abdominal sternite VIII (in S. ulcerosus : sterniteVIIIposteriorlywithamediansubcircularprotuberance) by the broader and stouter ventral process of the aedeagus in lateral view, by the differentlyshapedspinesintheinternalsac (in S. ulcerosus : internalsacwitha rowofapproximately 5–7 distinctlysclerotisedandmoderatelylongspines).

From S. brachati by the absence of a tubercule on abdominal sternite VIII (in S. brachati : small tubercle on sternite VIII), by the broader and stouter ven- tral process of the aedeagus in lateral view, by the presence of sclerotized spinesintheinternalsac.

Fordescriptions, illustrationsanddistributionsofthesespeciesseeAss- INg (2003, 2011), ANLAŞ (2018 b) and Figure 17.

Distributionandbionomics – Thespecieswasfoundattwolocalities fromKonya (Hadim) andKaraman (Ermenek). Thespecimenswerefound understonesandsiftedfromgrassrootsbetweenlimestonegravelonapas-

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bars: 0.5 mm (1–2); 0.2 mm (3–8)

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ture with shrubs, at altitudes of 1890 and 1990 m. Some specimens were col- lected with a MSS trap in a rocky steep slope in the subalpine zone.