Oxypoda defossa ASSING 2010

Assing, V., 2012, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Oxypoda species of the West Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1), pp. 365-399 : 394

Oxypoda defossa ASSING 2010

( Figs 51-53 )

Material examined: Spain:1, Cádiz , Sierra d'Ojen, 27.I.1996, leg. Poot (cAss) ; 1, Cádiz , Tarifa, XII.1995, leg. Poot (cWun) ; 1, Tarifa , I.1996, leg. Poot (cWun) .

Comment: The original description of this species is based on three females from Cádiz province ( ASSING 2010a). In the meantime, the above specimens have become available, among them a male. So far, all the specimens have been collected in December and January. It seems likely that, like the type material, the above material was collected during periods of heavy rain. The male sexual characters are as follows:

: sternite VIII much longer than broad, posterior margin obtusely angled in the middle ( Fig. 51 ); median lobe of aedeagus conspicuously slender ( Fig. 52 ); paramere as in Fig. 53 .

Figures

Figs 51-57: Oxypoda defossa ASSING (51-53) and "O." weiratheri BERNHAUER (54-57; 55-56: lectotype): (51) male sternite VIII; (52) median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view; (53, 56) paramere; (54) habitus; (55) apical portion of median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view; (57) spermatheca. Scale bars: 54: 0.5 mm; 51: 0.2 mm; 52-53, 55-57: 0.1 mm.