Cephennium dolomitanum Kahlen & Eckelt, 2024, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Kahlen, Manfred
name: Eckelt, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Cephennium
Cephennium dolomitanum

description: Cephennium dolomitanum nov.sp. (Figs 63-66, 86)
C. bucciarellii BESUCHET i.l.
T y p e M a t e r i a l: Holotype ♁: Italy / Trentino, Selva di Grigno, 300 m, 46.0142°N, 11.5953°E, 10.6.1978, leaf litter, leg. Kahlen. / Cephennium dolomitanum nov.sp. ♁ det. Kahlen / Holotype (TLMF). Paratypes: 10♁♁: same data as holotype. leg. Kahlen (TLMF); 5♁♁: Italy / Trentino, Val Noana, Val Carbonere, 1200 m, 46.1242°N, 11.85°E, as well as Val Noana, surroundings of Rifugio Fonteghi, 1100 m, 46.1389°N, 11.8589°E, 3.6.1977, beech litter, leg. Kahlen (TLMF); 4♁♁ 3♀♀: Italy / Pordenone, Cansiglio, Col Brombolo SW slope, 1200 m, 46.0324°N, 12.4151°E, 17.6.1974, beech litter, leg. Kahlen (TLMF), 2♁♁ 1♀: Italia / Treviso, Miane-Campea, Carpene, 250 m, 45.9253°N, 12.1075°E, 26.5.1990, leaf litter, leg. Kahlen (TLMF).
Type material collection Meybohm: Paratypes, all cMey: Italia / Trentino: 3♁♁ 7♀♀: Val Noana, Val Carbonere, 1200 m, 46.1242°N, 11.85°E, 3./ 4.6.1977, leg. V. Brachat; 2♁♁ 1♀: Selva di Grigno, 300 m, 46.0142°N, 11.5953°E, 6.8.1978, leg. H. Daffner. Italia / Treviso: 1♁: Guia, 300 m, 45.9123°N, 12.0547°E, 16.5.1985, leg. H. Daffner; 1♀: Valdobbiadene, 250 m, 45.9016°N, 11.9958°E, 11.6.1990, leg. H. Daffner; 1♁: Valdobiadene Saccol, Col Croset, 250 m, 45.8971°N, 12.0209°E, 2.5.1990, leg. H. Daffner; 2♁♁: Valdobbiadene, Pian de Farnè, 1100 m, 45,9250°N, 12,0278°E, 26.9.2013, leg. H. Meybohm; 1♁: Monte Cesen, Val Paula, 1450 m, 45.9435°N, 12.0263°E, 10.6.1089, leg. H. Daffner; 1♁: Monte Cesen, 1300 m, 45.9589°N, 12.0244°E, 4.10.2013, leg. H. Meybohm; 1♁: Cornuda, Castelcucco, Collalto, 300 m, 45.8396°N, 11.8971°E, 15.6.1990, leg. H. Daffner; 1♁ 1♀: Refrontolo, 200 m, 45.9254°N, 12.2076°E, 3.5.1986. leg. V. Brachat; 1♁: Campea W, 240 m, 45.9206°N, 12.0870°E, 2.10.2013, leg. H. Meybohm; 2♁♁: Bosco del Cansiglio, Val Vallorch, 1200 m, 46.0517°N, 12.3655°E, 16.6.1974, leg. V. Brachat; 1♀: Nervesa NW, Fiume Piave, 100 m, 45.8533°N, 12.1611°E, 2.10.2013, leg. H. Meybohm. Italia / Belluno: 1♀: Monte Faverghera, 1600 m, 46.0795°N, 12.3003°E, 6.11.1981, leg. H. Daffner; 2♁♁: Cansiglio, 1000-1200 m, leg. Stolz; 2♁♁ 3♀♀: Monte Grappa, Malga Piz, 1320 m, 45.8841°N, 11.8558°E, 6.10.2013, leg. H. Meybohm. All specimens det. Kahlen.
Additional information of non type material: Numerous records from various locations in the Bosco del Cansiglio area; Agordo, Feltre/Monte Pavione, Passo San Boldo, Possagno, Conegliano/San Michele di Feletto, Montello (unpublished notes by Besuchet).
E t y m o l o g y: The specific name derives from its predominant occurrence in the Dolomites.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Habitus as in Fig. 63. Body length 1.05-1.1 mm. Body uniformly light reddish-brown and shiny, fairly dense and long hairs, somewhat erect. Head with individual isolated punctures. Punctures on pronotum and elytra equally strong, but more widespread on pronotum. The Pronotum is noticeably narrower than elytra in males and lacks a basal bump. In males, the tibiae are inconspicuous, without any particular features. Ventral side: ♁ with metaventrite shiny, almost flat, uniformly coarsely and densely punctured at the centre and its edges, becoming much finer and more widespread towards the outer sides. Hairs short and appressed (Fig. 65). Genitalia: Length 0.37 mm. Dorsal view Fig. 64 and 86., lateral view Fig. 66.
description: Published as part of Kahlen, Manfred & Eckelt, Andreas, 2024, Contribution to the knowledge of the Italian species of the genus Cephennium MÜLLER & KUNZE, 1822 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), pp. 69-109 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 56 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14682032