Anthobium tectum Shavrin 2022
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Anthobium
Anthobium tectum

description: Key to species of the tectum group
1 Lateroapical angles of pronotum distinctly protruding anteriad................................................. 2
- Lateroapical angles of pronotum not or indistinctly protruding anteriad........................................... 3
2 Pronotum twice as broad as long. Median lobe wide (Fig. 67). Body length: 2.80–4.50 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 82. Siberia.............................................................................................. A. frigidum
- Pronotum distinctly less than twice as broad as long. Median lobe narrow (Fig. 99). Body length: 4.20 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 95. Tajikistan ............................................................................ A. tichomirovae
3 Elytra about as long as broad or slightly longer.............................................................. 4
- Elytra slightly broader than long......................................................................... 7
4 Mediobasal third of pronotum with indistinct semicircular impression.Apical portions of parameres very wide (Fig. 103). Body length: 3.10 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 97. Nepal ........................................................ A. vitreum
- Mediobasal third of pronotum without impression. Apial portions of parameres narrow or relatively wide............... 5
5 Pronotum slightly more narrowed posteriad than anteriad. Apical portion of median lobe gradually narrowed toward rounded apex (Fig. 87). Body length: 2.65–3.25 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 4. Nepal ............................... A. himalayense
- Pronotum evenly narrowed both anteriad and posteriad. Apical portion of median lobe wide, with truncate apex.......... 6
6 Median lobe wide; parameres moderately short, slightly exceeding apex of median lobe (Fig. 63). Body length: 2.70–4.50 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 2. Trans-Palaearctic............................................................... A. tectum
- Median lobe narrow; parameres long significantly exceeding apex of median lobe (Fig. 65). Body larger: 3.40–3.60 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 3. China: Sichuan ............................................................... A. cornatipenis
7 Body with bluish reflex in middle of head, neck and medioapical portion of pronotum. Aedeagus as in Fig. 89. Body length: 2.81–3.35 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 5. China: Sichuan ............................................ A. multipunctatum
- Body without bluish reflex.............................................................................. 8
8 Antennomeres 6–10 elongate. Median lobe moderately wide (Fig. 91). Body length: 3.15–3.90 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 94. China: Xizang ................................................................................ A. smetanai
- Antennomeres 6–10 slightly transverse. Median lobe very wide (Fig. 101). Body smaller: 3.00 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 96. China: Yunnan .............................................................................. A. umbrinum
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2022, A revision of Palaearctic Anthobium Leach, 1819 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae Omaliinae: Anthophagini). V. Algidum, morosum and tectum groups, a new species of the fusculum group, and faunistic records, pp. 301-346 in Zootaxa 5104 (3) on page 315, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6332042