Stiliderus crassus
Creators: name: Rougemont, Guillaume De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stiliderus
Stiliderus crassus

description: <i>Stiliderus crassus</i> (Kraatz) <i>Psilotrachelus crassus</i> KRAATZ 1859: 124. <i>Stiliderus crassus</i>: ROUGEMONT 1986d: 44. <i>Stiliderus crassus</i>: ROUGEMONT 1996: 732. <i>Stiliderus crassus</i>: ROUGEMONT 2001: 49. <i>Stiliderus crassus</i>: ASSING 2014: 493. 1 &amp;female;, Burma, env. Maymyo, 700–800 m, 4.–5.III.96, leg. S. KURBATOV; 1 &amp;female;, Burma, Chin prov., env. Saw, 900–1500 m, 7.–8.X.1996, leg. S. KURBATOV (both MHNG). 1 &amp;male;, Comores, Mayotte, Bouyouni (res. for. Bandramaji) IX.[19]98, leg. J. SUDRE; 9 exx., Thailand, Chiang Dao, 26.X.2010, leg. G. DE R OUGEMONT; 1 ex., Thailand, Doi Ankhang, 24.X.2010, leg. G. DE ROUGEMONT; 3 exx., Thailand, Kho Yao Noi (island), 31.X.2010, leg. G. DE ROUGEMONT (all CRO). Remark New to Burma and the Comoro Islands. <i>S. crassus</i> is the most widely distributed member of the genus, now known from continental Asia (Assam, Burma, Thailand, Malay peninsula, Vietnam, China) and from the islands of Ceylon, Penang (ROUGEMONT leg., 1990) and Lombok. It is erroneously cited from Celebes (ROUGEMONT 1996: 716, and consequently in ASSING 2014: 493); these references should read Ceylon. This is the first record of a member of the genus outside the oriental region; this is not very surprising however, as a number of other oriental Staphylinidae (e. g. <i>Astenus leptocerus</i> (Eppelsheim), <i>A. maculipennis</i> (Kraatz), <i>Cephisella brachycera</i> (Kraatz), <i>C. rufa</i> (Kraatz), <i>Medon planus</i> (Kraatz), <i>Lithocharis sororcula</i> (Kraatz), <i>Phacophallus</i> spp., <i>Philonthus</i> spp.) occur in other islands of the western Indian Ocean (e. g. Mascarene islands, LECOQ 1986). The fact that these are all species that are common and widespread on the Indian subcontinent and Ceylon, rather than endemic representatives of oriental genera or species groups in a different zoogeographic region, suggests that they were introduced by man, probably in vegetable matter imported from south Asia.
description: Published as part of <i>Rougemont, Guillaume De, 2015, Studies on Stiliderus Motschulsky and Stilicoderus Sharp: biogeographical notes and descriptions of new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 113-130 in Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 8</i> on page 127, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3833627
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