The Cephennium fauna of Turkey and the Middle East (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.1.001-028Keywords:
Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae, Cephennium, taxonomy, new species, species groups, West Palaearctic, Middle East, Turkey, Jordan, Bulgaria, endemism, distribution mapsAbstract
Only two species of Cephennium Muller & Kunze, 1822 were previously known from Turkey and the Middle East including Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Iran. An examination of material collected during numerous field trips toTurkey and Jordan in the past four decades revealed that the Cephennium fauna of Turkey is remarkably diverse. In total, 25 named species are recognized, diagnosed, illustrated, and assigned to four species groups. Based on zoogeographic, morphological, and additional evidence, C. bodemeyeri Reitter, 1903, previously a subspecies of C. perispinctum Kolenati, 1846, is elevated to species rank. Twenty-three species are described for the first time: Cephennium fractum spec. nov. (Turkey: Bursa, Balıkesir, Kocaeli, Canakkale), C. infractum spec. nov. (Turkey: Bursa), and C. immutatum spec. nov. (Turkey: Izmir, Muğla, Adıyaman) of the C. perispinctum group; C. ericinum spec. nov. (Turkey: Ordu), C. varispinosum spec. nov. (Turkey: Ordu), C. victrix spec. nov. (Turkey: Sinop), C. spinigerum spec. nov. (Turkey: Bartin), and C. digitale spec. nov. (Turkey: Zonguldak) of the C. ericinum group; C. reductum spec. nov. (Turkey: Konya, Antalya, Mersin, Kastamonu) of the C. jonicum group; C. corruptum spec. nov. (Turkey: Mersin, Adana), C. marasicum spec. nov. (Turkey: Kahramanmaraş), C. dolucanum spec. nov. (Turkey: Kahramanmaraş), C. fimbriatum spec. nov. (Turkey: Adana), C. besucheti spec. nov. (Turkey: Kahramanmaraş), C. affimbriatum spec. nov. (Turkey: Kahramanmaraş), C. kartalicum spec. nov. (Turkey: Gaziantep), Cephennium nemruticum spec. nov. (Turkey: Adıyaman), C. unguicum spec. nov. (Turkey: Aydın), C. deplectens spec. nov. (Turkey: Izmir, Manisa), C. sicaferum spec. nov. (Turkey: Aydın), C. geminum spec. nov. (Turkey: Antalya), C. duplum spec. nov. (Turkey: Muğla), and C. jordanicum spec. nov. (Northwest Jordan) of the C. corruptum group. Several additional species, all of them represented exclusively by females and most likely belonging to the C. corruptum group, remain undescribed. A key to the named species of Turkey and the Middle East is provided. The distributions of the species recorded from Turkey are mapped. In an appendix, C. liguliferum spec. nov. (Southeast Bulgaria), a close relative of C. bodemeyeri and C. perispinctum, is described and illustrated.
Taxonomic acts
Cephennium fractum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:26CE8301-2927-4893-B93E-9F2BEF4F7F07
Cephennium infractum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E222C4A2-D6AC-48FF-AC4C-B274EF405209
Cephennium immutatum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F24C0315-7B6F-427E-B9AB-65AB304F7718
Cephennium ericinum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F56474A9-C330-4019-BD58-B566E66CF58E
Cephennium varispinosum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:04C4304D-F84A-400B-8710-15407DE9BCCD
Cephennium victrix spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:2BC2443C-70A2-4B5B-874A-FAF0F4DCFB62
Cephennium spinigerum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7321FC90-18ED-4F50-8CFA-58F338EA62BB
Cephennium digitale spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:06ED0DE9-D72E-410C-9A7A-B7330175D3D9
Cephennium reductum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:CB292C96-5EC1-4947-AE0F-3D3F3094C77A
Cephennium corruptum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:BC5C6DE3-2696-4949-B84F-E7336C5DC774
Cephennium marasicum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:02420408-99DB-49FA-8A5B-409528E5613A
Cephennium dolucanum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F0BFE9A7-0AE9-40D2-BC5E-49DE875B2A65
Cephennium fimbriatum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:831C051F-751A-4D9C-A9DA-7E2BCAA4D82E
Cephennium besucheti spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:831C051F-751A-4D9C-A9DA-7E2BCAA4D82E
Cephennium affimbriatum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:02ED0B80-53CF-4ED8-8648-F45DC12696B5
Cephennium kartalicum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:27B66398-BD3C-4C54-9DF8-0918EEEB6C65
Cephennium nemruticum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:643B8783-90BC-4DE2-9DA7-45EFCF67778C
Cephennium unguicum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:92FD91A3-6A6F-4EBB-BBBF-2CA222D6FD14
Cephennium deplectens spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E16431E9-E6B9-411F-B164-3FA1B7A4D2E2
Cephennium sicaferum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7F1029CB-AD9C-42A6-BBAC-5BDC653EBFEC
Cephennium geminum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:36759AD0-8CA5-44E3-A0A0-D50329D09B0C
Cephennium duplum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B2B65A3E-757E-44EB-9F6F-C46D7523A3EB
Cephennium jordanicum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:900BF391-A399-4559-A132-F1E8F1CFB3E7
Cephennium liguliferum spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:BE39D1DA-3677-435F-A8EB-D34BE361F9F5
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