Lesteva championi Lohse 1982
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lesteva
Lesteva championi

description: Lesteva (s.str.) championi Lohse, 1982
Lesteva championi Lohse, 1982: 203
Lesteva (s.str.) championi: Shavrin, 2012: 81, 2015a: 533
Type material examined: INDIA: Holotype of Lesteva championi Lohse, 1982, ♂ [The aedeagus, abdominal sternite VIII and tergite VIII are glued under the specimen; apical abdominal segment is lost]: ‘Holo- | type’ <round label with red margin, printed>, ‘ Chakrata Dist. | Binal Gad 7-8000`| Dr. Cameron. | 24. V. 22.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Holotypus’ <red rectangular label, handwritten>, ‘ Lesteva championi | n.sp. | holotypus [handwritten] | det.Dr.G.A.Lohse’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH).
Paratypes of Lesteva championi Lohse, 1982, 3 ♂, 1 ♀: same labels as the holotype except label ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed> (BMNH); 200 specimens: ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘KASHMIR: Gulmarg. | vi-vii.1931 | Dr. Cameron’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘ Hazara, N.W.F. Prov., [underlined by yellow] | Upper Kagan Valley. | 8,000 ft., 11.vi.1927. ’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH); 1 ♂, 2 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round printed label with yellow margin>, ‘Ranikhet, | Kumaon. | H.G.C.’ <printed>, ‘H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ <rectangular printed label>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ <rectangular printed label> (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘ Monali, | Kulu, V. Punjab. | 6000ft. H.G.C. ’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘ Chakrata Dist. | Sainj Khud 6500`’<rectangular label, printed>, ‘ M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva championi | n.sp. | holotypus [handwritten] | det. Dr.G.A. Lohse’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘ Chakrata Dist. | Korawa Khud 9100`’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Dr. Cameron. | 4. V. 22 ’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva championi | n.sp. | holotypus [sic] [handwritten] | det. Dr.G.A. Lohse’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ <round printed label with yellow margin>, ‘ Jibhi, Seraj. | Punjab, 6,000ft | H.G.C. v.1926 ’ <printed>, ‘ H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ <rectangular printed label>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ <rectangular printed label> (BMNH).
Additional material: INDIA: 1 ♂: ‘ Kashmir Gulmarg vi-vii.1931 Dr. Cameron’, ‘ W. Steel coll. B.M. 1969- 552’, ‘ championi’, ‘ Coll. G. A. Lohse MHNG-1994’ (MHNG); 2 ♂, 2 ♀: same data (BMNH); 2 ♂, 3 ♀: ‘ Naggar, Lulu. Punjab. 5,000ft. H. G.C. ’ (BMNH); 2 ♂: ‘ Chakrata dist. | Sainj Khud | 29/5/22.6500`’ … [unreadable]’ (BMNH); 1 ♂ [labeled as the syntype of Lathrimaeum monticola Cameron, 1924; aedeagus and apical abdominal segment are glued on the same new card under the beetle, old card under new label]: ‘SYN- | TYPE’ <round label with blue margin, printed>, ‘ Theog 7600`| Simla Hills. ’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Dr. Cameron. | IX. 1921.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ M. Cameron | Bequest. | B. M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva with [handwritten] | Lathrimaeum monticola [handwritten] | P.M.Hammond | det.1969 | Cam [eron]. syntypes [handwritten]’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | Shavrin A.V. det. 2016’ <rectangular label, printed> (BMNH).
Remarks. Lesteva championi was described by Lohse (1982) from North India. The figures of the aedeagus were provided by me recently (Shavrin 2015a).
Among specimens of the type material of Lathrimaeum monticola Cameron, 1924 (now Anthobium) in BMNH, one syntype (male), labeled by P. Hammond as ‘ Lesteva [...]’ was found. I studied the aedeagus of this specimen which proved to be conspecific with L. championi.
The species is widely distributed from Pakistan and Kashmir through Northern provinces of India (Uttaranchal Pradesh, Uttarakhand) to Nepal.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2016, New taxonomic and faunistic data on the Himalayan Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae), pp. 143-150 in Zootaxa 4205 (2) on pages 144-145, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/192909