taxonID	type	description	language	source
0A172832FFAFE33AFF1E52F5A466FB6C.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: For a map illustrating the expansive Atlanto-Mediterranean distribution of M. apicalis see ASSING (2006).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFAFE339FF1E55CDA723FEDF.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: The distribution of this species is of the Adriato-Mediterranean type and ranges from Sicily in the south to southern Switzerland in the north. For a map see ASSING (2006).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFACE339FF1E5489A7E3F9CD.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: Medon africanus has become known only from Tunisia and Algeria (ASSING 2006, 2009).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFACE339FF1E5340A43BFC6A.taxon	materials_examined	C o m m e n t: Previously examined material of this Atlanto-Mediterranean subspecies was mainly sifted from deep layers of leaf litter, with few records also from caves or subterranean traps (ASSING 2006, 2007 c, 2009). The above records suggest that it is apparently a regular in caves. Three specimens were collected on the wing in flight intercept traps in May and August / September.	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFACE339FF1E505AA698FDD0.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: This rare subspecies apparently has an Adriato-Mediterranean distribution and has been reported from Italy, Central Europe, and Hungary (ASSING 2006, 2009).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFACE339FF1E52C7A723FB8B.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: Medon dilutus pythonissa is widespread and common in the Eastern Mediterranean region. For a map illustrating its Ponto-Mediterranean distribution see ASSING (2006).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFACE339FF1E55A6A78FFAA8.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: Medon rufiventris has an expansive Ponto-Mediterranean distribution. For a map see ASSING (2006).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFADE338FF1E51D7A268FC3A.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: Medon brunneus is an expansive Adriato-Mediterranean element and by far the most common species in southeastern Europe. For a map see ASSING (2006).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFADE338FF1E52F7A79CFB31.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: For a map illustrating the expansive Atlanto-Mediterrean distribution of this species see ASSING (2006).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFADE338FF1E55FFA539FA79.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: Medon semiobscurus, a close relative of M. brunneus, is common in the eastern Mediterranean from Turkey to Israel (ASSING 2006, 2009).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFAAE33FFF1E51D7A464FE07.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: The distribution of this species ranges from Morocco across the Iberian Peninsula to southwestern France; for a map see ASSING (2006). One specimen collected at the end of December is teneral.	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFAAE33FFF1E5312A7CBFCD4.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: Unlike most other species of the M. fusculus group M. fusculus is widespread, its distribution ranging from the Middle East to France and the British Isles. For a map see ASSING (2006).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFAAE33FFF1E5245A7EDFB91.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: The distribution of M. lindbergi is confined to the Middle East from Israel northwards to central southern Anatolia (ASSING 2004 a, 2007 b, 2009). For a map see ASSING (2004 a).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFAAE33FFF1E559FA547FAA9.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: This species is distributed in the southern Caspian Sea region from Azerbaijan to northeastern Iran. For a map see ASSING (2009).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFABE33DFF1E5455A58AFE4A.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: An updated map illustrating the distribution of this species, which ranges from eastern Anatolia to southeastern Iran, is provided by ASSING (2009).	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFA8E33DFF1E50E7A592FD0F.taxon	description	C o m m e n t: The type locality of this species (" Népal, entre Chame et Pisang ") is situated in the Annapurna range. The type specimens were not examined, but based on the illustrations of the distinctive morphology of the aedeagus and of the male sternite VII in the original description (COIFFAIT 1982), as well as on the locality, there is no doubt that the above specimens are conspecific with the types. For illustrations of the external and male sexual characters see Figs 1 - 7. The known distribution is illustrated in Map 1.	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
0A172832FFA8E333FF1E522AA482FE1E.taxon	description	D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 4.0 - 4.5 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 8. Coloration: body blackish, with indistinctly paler elytra and brownish abdominal apex; legs and antennae brown. Head weakly transverse, across eyes approximately 1.05 times as wide as long; punctation very dense and rather coarse; interstices very narrow, much narrower than diameter of punctures, without microsculpture; eyes distinctly bulging and rather large, approximately as long as postocular region in dorsal view (Fig. 9). Antenna with antennomere III approximately as long as II; X very weakly transverse. Pronotum approximately as wide as long and as wide as head, weakly tapering posteriad (Fig. 9); punctation very dense and rather coarse; midline narrowly impunctate at least in posterior 1 / 2 - 2 / 3; interstices much narrower than diameter of punctures and without microsculpture. Elytra short, 0.70 - 0.75 times as long, and at posterior margin slightly wider than pronotum, weakly widened posteriad; humeral angles weakly pronounced; punctation fine, dense, and shallow (Fig. 9). Hind wings reduced. Abdomen approximately as wide as elytra; punctation very fine and dense; interstices with shallow microsculpture; posterior margin of tergite VII without palisade fringe.: posterior margin of sternite VII produced in the middle, in the middle of this projection shallowly V-shaped, margin of this V-shaped excision with few blackish setae on either side (Figs 10 - 11); posterior margin of sternite VIII with moderately deep excision, its depth approximately 1 / 4 the length of sternite (Fig. 12); aedeagus as in Figs 13 - 14, apex in ventral view weakly concave. C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: With one exception (M. deharvengi), the new species is separated from all other congeners known from Nepal by the short elytra, the reduced hind wings, and the absence of a palisade fringe at the posterior margin of the abdominal tergite VII alone. Based on the extremely similar external appearance, as well as on the derived male sexual characters (shape and chaetotaxy of the male sternite VII, shape of aedeagus), M. manasluensis is closely related to, and quite possibly the adelphotaxon of M. deharvengi, a hypothesis also supported by the fact that the Manaslu range is adjacent to the Annapurna range. The eyes are slightly smaller (somewhat shorter than postocular region) in M. deharvengi than in M. manasluensis, but otherwise both species are reliably distinguished only based on the male sexual characters. In M. deharvengi, the male ster- nite VII is more strongly produced in the middle, this projection is more deeply and more narrowly incised in the middle, and the blackish setae are stouter, longer, and situated nearer to the apex. Also, the aedeagus is apically distinctly bifid in ventral view. For illustrations of the male sexual characters of M. deharvengi see Figs 3 - 7. E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet (Latin, adjective) is derived from the name of the mountain range where the type locality is situated. D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d b i o n o m i c s: The type locality is situated on the southeastern slope of the Manaslu range, in the north of central Nepal (Map 1). The type specimens were collected at an altitude of 2500 - 2800 m.	en	Assing, V. (2010): A revision of Palaearctic Medon. VIII. A new species from Nepal and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 489-498, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332281
