Omalium scabrum Smetana, 1975

Shavrin, Alexey V., 2025, Review of the genus Omalium Gravenhorst, 1802 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Omaliini) of Siberia and Far Eastern Russia, with notes on some species from Mongolia and Japan, Zootaxa 5646 (2), pp. 199-235 : 225

3.2.4.8. Omalium scabrum Smetana, 1975

( Fig. 41 )

Omalium scabrum Smetana, 1975: 155 .

Type material examined. Paratype ♀ ( Fig. 41 ): ‘ MONGOLIA: Chövsgöl aimak | 3 km SW von Somom Buren- | chaan, 1650 m | Exp. Dr. Z. KASZAB, 1968’ <printed>, ‘Nr. 993 | 21.VI.–16.VII.1968 ’ <printed>, ‘PARATYPE | Omalium [handwritten in black] | scabrum m. [handwritten in black] | A. Smetana [printed] 1973 [handwritten in black] | CNC. No.[printed] 13286 [handwritten in black] ’ <yellow, printed> ( CNC).

Remarks. Omalium scabrum was originally described from Mongolia. Based on the shape of the median lobe, it refers to the Rivulare group ( Zanetti 1987). The habitus of this species is illustrated for the first time ( Fig. 41 ).

Figures

FIGURES 41–43. Habitus of Omalium: 41—O. scabrum (paratype), 42—O. strigicolle (Russia: Maritime Province, Sikhote- Alin Nature Reserve), 43—O. clavatum (lectotype). Scale bar: 1.0 mm.