Oxypoda (Deropoda) schatzmayri BERNHAUER 1936

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 : 379

Oxypoda (Deropoda) schatzmayri BERNHAUER 1936

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Oxypoda schatzmayri BERNHAUER 1936: 56 .

Type material examined: Lectotype, present designation [dissected prior to present study]: " Tripoli Afr., 7.3.26, Schatzmayr / Schatzmayri Brh. Typus, Parlo Koch don / Schatzmayri Bernh. Typus, Baptopoda / Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Collection / Lectotypus Oxypoda schatzmayri Bernhauer , desig. V. Assing 2011 " (FMNH) . Paralectotype: " Tripoli Afr., 7.3.26, Schatzmayr / Schatzmayri Bernh. Cotypus, Baptopoda / Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Collection" (FMNH).

Comment: The original description is based on an unspecified number of syntypes from "Tripolis, 7. März 1926" ( BERNHAUER 1936). Two syntypes, a male and a female were located in the Bernhauer collection at the FMNH; the male is designated as the lectotype.

SMETANA (2004) suggests that the species was described from Greece, but the labels attached to the type specimens leave no doubt that the type locality is Tripolis in Libya.

In many respects, O. schatzmayri is similar to O. magnicollis (eye size, coloration, reduced hind wings and palisade fringe at the posterior margin of the abdominal tergite VII, shape of aedeagus, with large crista apicalis and apically bifid ventral process). It is distinguished from that species particularly by more slender habitus, slightly less dense punctation and less matt appearance of the forebody, slighly shorter and more depressed elytra, as well as by the shape of the aedeagus ( Fig 16-19 ).

Figures

Figs 10-19: Oxypoda transgressa PEYERIMHOFF, lectotype (10-11), O. magnicollis FAUVEL from Biskra (12-15), and O. schatzmayri BERNHAUER (16-19), lectotype (18-19) and paralectotype (16- 17): (10, 14, 18) median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view; (11, 15, 19) paramere; (12, 16) habitus; (13, 17) forebody. Scale bars: 12, 16: 1.0 mm; 13, 17: 0.5 mm; 14-15, 18-19: 0.1 mm. 10-11: without scale.