Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) munsteri A. Strand 1935
Creators: name: Glotov, S. V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Gyrophaena
Gyrophaena munsteri

description: Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) munsteri A. Strand, 1935   
Strand, 1935: 399.  
 M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Types. G. munsteri: Lectotype (here designated): Ơ “Invinhoe England B. S. Williams / Gyrophaena munsteri TYPUS A. Strand [pink label] / Gyrophaena munsteri Strand det. Ádám, 2007. [white labels] / LECTOTYPE Ơ Gyrophaena munsteri A. Strand, 1935 des. S. Glotov 2011 [red label]” (NHMO). Paralectotypes. Norway. Sundnes, Drangedal, Munster, 2 exs (NHMO).   
Redescription. Measurements (in mm): length of antenna: 0.91; maximal head width (including eyes): 0.63; head length: 0.48; maximal width of pronotum: 0.68; length of pronotum (measured along its midline): 0.48; length of elytra at suture: 0.51; maximal width of elytra (combined width of each elytron when elytra closed along suture): 0.97; total length of body (from anterior margin of labrum to posterior margin of tergite VIII): 2.5.  
Coloration: head brown; pronotum pale brown; elytra yellow or pale brown, with slightly darkened posterior angles; abdomen pale brown, abdominal tergites VI–VII brown; mouthparts, antennae and legs yellow.  
Head strongly transverse, vertex with 6 or more small, round, distinct punctures on each side; microsculpture dense and distinct. Antennae length: antennal segment I long, strongly widened towards apex; segment II long, narrower and shorter than segment I; segment III narrower and shorter than segment II; segments IV–X transverse, 1.5–2.0 times as wide as long, all segments almost parallel-sided.  
Pronotum strongly transverse, posterior angles and posterior margin of pronotal disc rounded; in middle and lateral sides of pronotal disc with sparse, scattered, small, rounded punctures, microsculpture dense and distinct.  
Elytra with dense and fine punctuation; microsculpture dense and distinct; with sparsely distributed fine setae, microsculpture indistinct or absent.  
 Abdomen: abdominal tergites, each, with relatively indistinct or absent, fine punctuation. Male: posterior margin of tergite VIII with wide incision bordered by 2 short, wide, apically weakly pointed, inward curved appendages and medially with 2 short and thin appendages (fig. 1, 6). Aedeagus (fig. 2, 5).   
D i s t r i b u t i o n. Europe, Asia Minor, Middle Asia (Schülke & Smetana, 2015).  
 Comments. The original description of G. munsteri is based on 3 syntypes collected “in Sandnes in Drangedal” (is a city in Norway) by Münster and 4 syntypes collected “in Invinhoe in England ”, by Williams (Strand, 1935). One male syntype found in the collection of NHMO is designated here as lectotype for the better fixation of the identity of the name Gyrophaena munsteri A. Strand, 1935.
description: Published as part of Glotov, S. V., 2022, A New Species, New Synonymy, And Additional Records Of Gyrophaena (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocha- Rinae) From The Palaearctic Region, pp. 373-384 in Zoodiversity 56 (5) on pages 378-379, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2022.05.373, http://zenodo.org/record/7427934