Tectusa montana aus den Alpen und die Tectusa-Arten der Karpaten - Tectusa-Studien 1 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Oxypodini).

Abstract

Tectusa montana (Kraatz, 1856) comb. n., described from the Austrian Alps without an exact locality, is transferred from Oxypoda. The type locality is now known, because of its synonymization with the local endemic Parocyusa franzi Scheerpeltz, 1958 syn. n. (type locality: Austria, Steiermark, Hochreichart). It is compared with the related Tectusa holdhausi (Bernhauer, 1902). The so-called Oxypoda montana of most authors from the Carpathians represents a complex of six geographical separated species described as new: Tectusa transsylvanica sp. n. (type locality: Romania, South Carpathians, Fgra, Bulea lake), Tectusa bucegiensis sp. n. (type locality: Romania, South Carpathians, Bucegi, Omu massif), Tectusa rosenauensis sp. n. (type locality: Romania, South Carpathians, Rosenauer Gebirge = Schuler = Postavaru peak near Poiana Braov), Tectusa ceahlauensis sp. n. (type locality: Romania, East Carpathians, Ceahlau massif), Tectusa rodnaensis sp. n. (type locality: Romania, Northeast Carpathians, Rodnaer Gebirge = Munii Rodnei), and Tectusa nigromontis sp. n. (type locality: Ukraine, North Carpathians, Czerna Hora = hornohora). For Oxypoda montana Kraatz, 1856 a lectotype is designated. A key is given for the six species of the Carpathians. The distribution of two species of the Alps and the six species from the Carpathians are mapped. Records of “Oxypoda montana” from the Vysoké Tatry (Poland, Slovakia) are neither substantiated by specimens nor by any exact collection date and therefore highly doubtful. Parts 1 (numbers 1-2) and 2 (numbers 3-4) of the publication by Kraatz (1856-1858) are each allocated earlier dates using secondary sources.

Keywords

Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Tectusa, new species, new synonym, new combination, key to Carpathian species, distribution, Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine.

Nomenclatural Acts

franzi Scheerpeltz, 1958 (Paracyusa), syn. n. of Tectusa montana (Kraatz, 1856)
bucegiensis Zerche, 2007 (Tectusa), spec. n.
ceahlauensis Zerche, 2007 (Tectusa), spec. n.
montana (Kraatz, 1856) (Tectusa), Lectotype; comb. n. hitherto Oxypoda montana
nigromontis Zerche, 2007 (Tectusa), spec. n.
rodnaensis Zerche, 2007 (Tectusa), spec. n.
rosenauensis Zerche, 2007 (Tectusa), spec. n.
transsylvanica Zerche, 2007 (Tectusa), spec. n.