Cephennium praealpinum, Kahlen & Eckelt, 2024

Kahlen, Manfred & Eckelt, Andreas, 2024, Contribution to the knowledge of the Italian species of the genus Cephennium MÜLLER & KUNZE, 1822 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 56 (1), pp. 69-109 : 102

Cephennium praealpinum nov.sp. ( Figs 71-74 )

T y p e M a t e r i a l: Holotype ♁: Italy / Pordenone , Pradis di Sopra, Mineres, 600 m, 46.2599°N, 12.9111°E, 25.10.1982, leaf litter, leg. Kahlen. / Cephennium praealpinum nov.sp. ♁ det. Kahlen / Holotype TLMF. Paratypes: 16♁♁ 10♀♀: same location as holotype, 25.10.1982, 30.5.1983, 28.5.1984, 2.6.1989, leaf litter, leg. Kahlen ( TLMF) ; 2♁♁: Pradis di Sopra , Paludon, 600 m, 46.2555°N, 12.8858°E, 18.5.1982, Vinca roots, leg. Kahlen ( TLMF) ; 4♁♁ 2♀♀: Italy / Pordenone , Castelnuovo d.F., Paludea, Val Molini, 300 m, 46.2054°N, 12.8887°E, 30.10.1982, leaf litter, leg. Kahlen ( TLMF) .

Type material collection Meybohm : Paratypes, all cMey: Italia / Pordenone: 3♁♁: Pradis di Sotto, 550 m, 46.2482°N, 12.8879°E, 18.- 20.6.1981, leg. V. Brachat ; Pradis di Sopra , Mineres, 600 m, 46.2599°N, 12.9111°E, 1♁ 18.6.1981, 1♀ 25.10.1982, 1♀ 18.6.1989, alle leg. H. Daffner ; 1♁: Pradis di Sopra , Paludon, 600 m, 46.2555°N, 12.8858°E, 19.5.1982, leg. H. Daffner ; 1♁: Paludea , Val Molini, 300 m, 46.2054°N, 12.8887°E, 30.10.1982, leg. H. Daffner ; all det. Kahlen.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific name derives from its occurrence in the southern Carnic Prealps (karst plateau of Pradis and Clauzetto).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Habitus as in Fig. 71 . Body length 1.07-1.12 mm. Body uniformly light reddish-brown and shiny, dense and long hairs, fairly appressed. Head with particular isolated punctures, pronotum finely and extensively punctured, elytra only slightly coarser and denser punctured. Pronotum in males without basal bump, almost as wide as elytra. In males, the tibiae are inconspicuous, without any particular features. Ventral side: ♂ with metaventrite shiny, weakly impressed, almost unpunctured in the centre of the midline. Increasingly coarser and moderately dense punctures towards the edges of the impression, punctures becoming significantly finer, much more extensive, and disappearing at the sides towards the outer sides. Hairs sparse, short, and appressed ( Fig. 73 ). Genitalia: Length 0.37 mm. Dorsal view Fig. 72 , lateral view Fig. 74 .

Figures

Figs 71-74: Cephennium praealpinum. (71) male habitus holotype; (72) aedeagus ventral view holotype; (73) ventral view of metaventrite; (74) aedeagus lateral (Figs 73-74 paratype).