Omalium littorale Kraatz 1857
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
name: Khachikov, Eduard A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Omalium
Omalium littorale

description: Omalium littorale Kraatz, 1857
(Figs. 5, 21–22, 37)
Omalium littorale Kraatz, 1857: 980
Material examined. RUSSIA: VOLGOGRAD AReA: 12 ♁♁, 11 ♀♀: Elton Lake. 26.09.2007. K.V. Makarov leg. (cKh, cSh); 2 ♀♀: same data, 01– 10.08.2006. K.V. Makarov & A.V. Matalin leg. (cKh); ROSTOV AReA: 1 ♀: Volgodonsk. 10.06.1990. P. Bagin leg. (cKh); 1 ♁, 1 ♀: Razdorskaya. 25.04.2009. E.A. Khachikov leg. (cKh); 1 ♁: Rostov-on-Don. 05.1994. E.A. Khachikov leg. (cKh); KRASNODAR TeRRITORY: 1 ♁: Caucasus Nature Reserve, 20 km E Krasnaya Polyana, E kordon Pslukh, environs of Aishkho Path. 1900–2000 m a.s.l. Betula forest with Acer (significantly trampled by cattle). 12.08.1986. A.B. Ryvkin leg. (cSh); 1 ♀: Caucasus Nature Reserve, “Instruktorskaya Shchel` Path. 16.07.2013. Yu.A. Chumachenko leg. (cSh); ADYGeA: 3 ♁♁, 4 ♀♀: Caucasus Nature Reserve, W of Guzeripl, Abago Pasture. 1750 m a.s.l., Fagus forest with Abies, Sorbus etc. near the upper border of forest. 24.05.1985.A.B. Ryvkin leg. (cR); 2 ♁♁, 2 ♀♀: same Nature Reserve, Lago-Naki. 16– 20.07.2014. E.A. Khachikov leg. (cKh, cSh); 1 ♁: Nikel`. 10.05.1993. I.V. Shokhin leg. (cKh); 2 ♁♁, 1 ♀: Bolshoy Utrish River. 01– 08.05.2009. E.A. Khachikov leg. (cSh); 16 ♁♁, 9 ♀♀: Abago Greenland, 11 km of Guzeripl-Abago road. 2015. E.A. Khachikov leg. (cKh, cSh); 2 ♁♁: same data, Klenovyi Park. 1750 m a.s.l. 29.08– 20.09.2009. S. Chumachenko leg. (cSh); 1 ♀: Maykop, Tulskaya. 17.05.1929 (ZMM); 1 ♀: Maykop District, Partizanskaya Polyana. 01– 07.07.2014. Yu.G. Arzanov & P. Ivliev leg. (cSh); KABARDINO-BALKARIA: 1 ♁, 2 ♀♀: Kichi-Balyk. 11.06.1993. Yu.G. Arzanov leg. (cKh); 2 ♁♁: Adyl-su near Elbrus. 2100–2350 m a.s.l. Betula & Pinus forest. 15– 19.07.1989. S.I. Golovatch leg. (cSh); NORTH OSSeTIA-ALANIA: 15 ♁♁, 5 ♀♀: Kabardino-Sunzhenskiy Mts. between Kardzhin and El`khotovo. 570 m a.s.l., NW slope and valley, Fagus forest with Rubus and Festuca. 03.10.1985. S.K. Alexeev leg. (cSh, cR, ZMM); 1 ♀: Tsey Gorge. 28.08.1979. S.A. Kurbatov leg. (cR); DAGeSTAN: 1 ♁: Gunib. 22.08.200. Ismailov leg. (cKh); AZERBAIJAN: 8 ♁♁, 11 ♀♀: N of Vartashen. 900 m a.s.l., Fagus and Quercus forest, in litter. 02.05.1987. S.I. Golovatch & K.Yu. Eskov leg. (cSh, ZMM).
Published records. ARMENIA: Assing & Schülke 2019: 99; NAGORNO-KARABAKH: Zanetti 2002: 57; RUSSIA: ADYGeA: Zanetti 2002: 57; KARACHAY-CHeRKeSSIA: Zanetti 2002: 57; KRASNODAR TeRRITORY: Zanetti 2002: 57; KABARDINO-BALKARIA: Khachikov 1998: 6; NORTH OSSeTIA-ALANIA: Zanetti 2002: 57; STAVROPOL TeRRITORY: Khachikov 1998: 6; TURKEY: Zanetti 2002: 57, Assing 2004: 677, 2011: 182.
Distribution. Omalium littorale is widely distributed in the Palaearctic Region and known from Europe, Turkey, Caucaus and Central Asia (Zanetti 2006, Schülke & Smetana 2015, Hlavač et al. 2016).
Remarks. Habitus as in Fig. 5. Aedeagus as in Figs. 21–22. Female genital segment as in Fig. 37.
It is here recorded from Kabardino-Balkaria and Dagestan for the first time.
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V. & Khachikov, Eduard A., 2023, Faunistic and diagnostic notes on some species of the genus Omalium Gravenhorst, 1802 of Caucasus, Turkey and Iran (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae, Omaliini), pp. 443-458 in Zootaxa 5227 (4) on pages 449-450, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5227.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7518924