Lesteva
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
name: Shilenkov, Viktor G.
name: Anistschenko, Alexander V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lesteva

description: Key to the Lesteva species known from South Siberia
1 Appendages slightly elongate, shoulders not reduced; body smaller (2.4–4.0 mm) ................................... 2
- Appendages strongly elongate, shoulders reduced; body larger (4.1–5.6 mm)........................................... 3
2 Pronotum strongly transverse, with impressions; body larger (4.0 mm), dark brown; antennae reddish brown; habitus and aedeagus as in Shavrin (2000, Figs. 8–9, 19); Khamar-Daban mountain range .......... ......................................................................................................................................... L. czerskyi Shavrin
- Pronotum slightly transverse, without impressions; body smaller (2.4–3.0 mm), pale brown; elytra reddish brown to brown, sometimes with light yellow spots on shoulders; antennae yellow; habitus and aedeagus as in Shavrin (2000, Figs. 10–11, 20); Irkutsk and Chita Territories, Republic of Buryatia ........................ ............................................................................................................................ L. cordicollis Motschulsky
3 Body and appendages dark brown; elytra long (LE:WE=89:31), with fairly long grey setae; habitus as in Fig. 1; aedeagus (Figs. 11–12) small, median lobe with short triangular apex; Barguzin mountain range .. ...................................................................................................................................... L. barguzinica sp.n.
- Body muddy-brown or yellowish-brown, appendages paler; elytra shorter, with shorter, denser goldish setae; aedeagus larger .................................................................................................................................. 4
4 Elytra short (LE:WE=90:39), strongly widened to apex; habitus as in Fig. 4; first metatarsal segment visibly shorter than last; ocelli poorly developed; median lobe of aedeagus (Figs. 13– 14) in lateral view with beak-like bent apex; East Sayan ............................................................................... L. brathinoides Zerche
- Elytra longer (LE:WE=(92–97):(28–34)), less widened to apex; first metatarsal segment shorter than last; ocelli developed or reduced; median lobe of aedeagus with pointed apex ................................................. 5
5 Ocelli well developed; habitus as in Fig. 3; aedeagus as in Figs. 15–16; West Sayan. L. sajanensis Zerche
- Ocelli strongly reduced, poorly visible at high magnification; habitus as in Fig. 1; aedeagus as in Figs. 8– 9; Khamar-Daban mountain range................................................................................. L. dabanensis sp.n.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., Shilenkov, Viktor G. & Anistschenko, Alexander V., 2007, Two new species and additional records of Lesteva Latreille, 1797 from the mountains of South Siberia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Anthophagini), pp. 37-47 in Zootaxa 1427 on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175752