Drusilla taygetana ASSING

Assing, Volker, 2006, On the Italian species of Drusilla L, 1819, with a note on D. taygetana A (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 56 (2), pp. 281-296 : 295

On Drusilla taygetana ASSING ( Figs 53-55 )

The original description of this recently described species is based on a single female holotype. In the course of the present paper, a male from the Taygetos ( Greece: Pelopónnisos) was found among the Drusilla material from the collections of the DEI, so that the male primary and secondary sexual characters can now be described :

Pronotum deeply and extensively impressed (more so than in the sympatric D. meridiana ) ( Fig. 53 ); tergite VIII with broader posterior emargination than in D. meridiana ( Fig. 54 ); median lobe of aedeagus larger than in D. meridiana ( Fig. 55 ).

Figures

Figs 53-55: Drusilla taygetana: forebody (53);  tergite VIII (54); median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view (55). Scale bars: 53: 0.5 mm; 54-55: 0.2 mm.