Oxypoda ( Thliboptera ) gaillardoti SAULCY 1865

Assing, V., 2006, On some species of Oxypoda MANNERHEIM from Turkey and adjacent regions (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1), pp. 277-331 : 302-303

Oxypoda ( Thliboptera) gaillardoti SAULCY 1865 ( Figs 221-225 )

Oxypoda gaillardoti SAULCY 1865: 633 f.

Type material examined: Holotype ♀ [dissected prior to present study]: Aioun Moussa / Ox. Gaillardoti / Ox. Gaillardoti Scy. typ. unicus / Holotypus / Muséum Paris Coll. Abeille de Perrin / Oxpoda Gaillardoti Saulcy M. Tronquet det. 1998 / Oxypoda gaillardoti Saulcy det. V. Assing 2006 ( MNHNP).

D i a g n o s i s: Relativelylargespecies,slightlylargerthan O. micantoides ; length of holotype 4.3 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 221 . Coloration distinctive: head dark brown; pronotum dark reddish; elytra reddish yellow; abdomen blackish, with the posterior margins of segments III-VI, the posterior third of segment VII, and the following segments reddish; legs, antennae, and maxillary palpi reddish to reddish yellow.

Head with fine, shallow, and rather sparse puncturation; microsculpture shallow, integument with some shine; eyes somewhat shorter than postocular region in dorsal view ( Fig. 222 ). Antenna as in Fig. 224 .

Pronotum relatively strongly convex, approximately 1.25 times as wide as long and 1.45 times as wide as head; puncturation denser than that of head, but very shallow, indistinct; microsculpture shallow; surface rather shiny ( Fig. 222 ).

Elytra at suture approximately 0.9 times as long as pronotum; puncturation much more distinct and denser than that of pronotum; microsculpture indistinct ( Fig. 222 ). Hind wings fully developed. Metatarsomere I barely longer than the combined length of metatarsomeres II-III.

Abdomen almost as wide as elytra, widest at segments III/IV; puncturation fine, moderately dense on anterior tergites and rather sparse on tergite VII; microsculpture absent on anterior tergites, barely noticeable on tergite VII, and shallow on tergite VIII; surface very shiny; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe ( Fig. 223 ).

3: unknown.

♀: posterior margin of sternite VIII broadly convex, in the middle very weakly concave; spermatheca as in Fig. 225.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: Among the eastern Mediterranean representatives of Thliboptera , O. gaillardoti is readily recognised by its distinctive coloration alone.

C o m m e n t: The original description is based on "un seul individu" ( SAULCY 1865).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: The species has become known only from the type locality in Jordan and - to my knowledge - has never been recorded again since its original description.

Figures

Figs 221-236: Oxypoda gaillardoti SAULCY (holotype) (221-225), O. collaris SAULCY (holotype) (226), and O. cingulum BERNHAUER (227-236; 230, 232-234: lectotype). (221, 227) habitus; (222, 228) forebody; (223, 231) abdomen; (224, 230) antenna; (225-226, 236) spermatheca; (229) head in lateral view; (232) posterior part of 3 sternite VIII; (233) median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view; (234) ventral process of aedeagus in ventral view; (235) posterior margin of ♀ sternite VIII. Scale bars: 221-223, 227: 1.0 mm; 224, 228-231: 0.5 mm; 225-226, 232-236: 0.1 mm.