Pseudomedon obsoletus
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pseudomedon
Pseudomedon obsoletus

description: Pseudomedon obsoletus (NORDMANN 1837)   
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Spain: 1 ex., Galicia, Lugo, Monforte de Lemos, light source, 24.V.-5.VI.2001, leg. Valcárcel (cSch); 1 ex., same data, but 30.V.-17.VI.2002 (cSch); 1 ex. [teneral], same data, but 20.-26.VI.2001 (cSch). Italy: 1 ex., Toscana, 50 km W Firenze, Padule del Fucecchio, 16.VI.1992, leg. Assing (cAss); 4 exs., Puglia, San Cataldo (LE), Riserva WWF Le Cesine, 14.-17.VII.1995, leg. Angelini (cAss). Germany: 2 exs., Brandenburg, Storkow env., NSG "Salzstelle Philadelphia", sifted from straw, 24.III.1984, leg. Schülke (cSch); 1 ex., Brandenburg, moist meadows between Philadelphia and Storkow, 8.IV.2006, leg. Schülke (cSch); 15 exs., Brandenburg, Gosen near Berlin, NSG "Wernsdorfer See", meadow, sifted from reed heap, 11.II.1984, leg. Schülke (cSch, cAss); 1 ex., Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hiddensee island, Neuendorf, Weststrand, sifted from beach debris, 25.VI.1991, leg. Schülke & Grünberg (cSch); 1 ex., Baden, Griesheim env., bank of Rhein river, 1.VI.2000, leg. Schülke (cSch). Austria: 1 ex., Vorarlberg, N Gaissau, flooded meadow near shore of Bodensee, 14.V.1999, leg. Schülke (cSch); 4 exs., Burgenland, Neusiedler See, Weiden am See, flood debris, 7.IV.1991, leg. Sprick (cAss); 2 exs., Neusiedler See, Podersdorf, flood debris, 7.IV.1991, leg. Sprick (cAss); 6 exs., Neusiedlersee, leg. Ganglbauer, Wagner (NHMW, cAss). Greece: 21 exs., Thessalia, NE Ossa Oros, Stómio, 39°50'N, 22°43'N, 10 m, floodplain forest, 5.IV.1998, leg. Assing, Schülke (cAss, cSch); 5 exs., Pelopónnisos, Korinthia, Lake Stimfalia, 6.V.1999, leg. Angelini (cAss); 1 ex., Pelopónnisos, NE Kalavrita, bank of Vouraikos river, 38°05'N, 22°10'E, 700 m, 30.III.1997, leg. Assing (cAss). Turkey: 4 exs., Istanbul, Belgrader Wald, 4.VI.1967, leg. Besuchet (cAss); 1 ex., Çanakkale, 25 km S Kumkale, Beşik Koyu ["Besika Bay", ca. 39°49'N, 26°10'E], leg. Walker (BMNH); 1 ex., Erzurum, Azort, 12.V.1967, leg. Besuchet (cAss); 2 exs., Muğla, Köyceğiz Gölü, 36°55'N, 28°42'E, 10 m, flood debris, 28.III.2002, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ex., Kayseri, Sultansazliği, 1000 m, 6.V.1978, leg. Besuchet & Löbl (cAss). Georgia: 1 ex., Tbilisi, Lisi, 19.VI.-13.VII.1988, leg. Wrase (Sch). Kazakhstan: 1 ex., Karachaganak, Abai, 24.IX.1989, leg. Kastcheev (cAss); 8 exs., Ile river, Karagach, 20.IX.1986, leg. Kastcheev (cAss); 2 exs., Ile river, Aidarly, 6.X.1984, leg. Kastcheev (cAss); 5 exs., same data, but 12.IV.1984 (cAss, cKas); 1 ex., same data, but 22.IV.1984 (cKas); 8 exs., same data, but 16.IV.1983 (cAss); 2 exs., Ile river, Buryndysu, 10.VI.1982, leg. Kastcheev (cAss, cKas); 1 ex., Tasutkol lake, 9.V.1985, leg. Kastcheev (cKas).  
C o m m e n t: The species is widespread in the Western Palaearctic region and has been reported also from the Afrotropical, Australian, and Nearctic regions (SMETANA 2004). It is newly reported from Kazakhstan and Middle Asia.
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2008, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Paederinae and Xantholinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), pp. 1237-1294 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on pages 1252-1253, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430627