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03AD87C0EC37E876FF7FAF7EFB88D15A.text	03AD87C0EC37E876FF7FAF7EFB88D15A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Deleaster Erichson 1839	<div><p>KEY TO THE AFROTROPICAL DELEASTER SPECIES</p> <p>1a Pubescence on laterobasal portion of abdominal tergites diverging; pectinate middle (comb) of apical edge on tergite VIII without short mesal denticle [North Ethiopia, Mts. Abboï-Miéda/Ābuyē Mēda].................................................. D. pectinatus Fauvel</p> <p>1b Pubescence on laterobasal portion of abdominal tergites parallel; pectinate middle (comb) of apical edge on tergite VIII with at least one short mesal denticle............................................ 2</p> <p>2a Elytra with posterior portion of disc not swollen; posterior portion of sutural margin in level with disc; posterior margin of elytra arcuate [South Ethiopia, Mts. Gughe].......................... D. negus n. sp.</p> <p>2b Elytra with posterior portion of disc swollen; posterior portion of sutural margin below level of disc; posterior margin of elytra subangulate. [Ruwenzori range in Zaire and Uganda]................ D. gibbosus n. sp.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AD87C0EC37E876FF7FAF7EFB88D15A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Cuccodoro, Giulio;Makranczy, György	Cuccodoro, Giulio, Makranczy, György (2013): Review of the Afrotropical species of Deleaster Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (4): 537-547, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5823328
03AD87C0EC34E873FF60ABE3FC49D457.text	03AD87C0EC34E873FF60ABE3FC49D457.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Deleaster pectinatus Fauvel 1882	<div><p>Deleaster pectinatus Fauvel, 1882</p> <p>Figs 1, 4, 8-9, 12-13</p> <p>Deleaster pectinatus Fauvel, 1882: 129. – Herman, 2001: 1326.</p> <p>LECTOTYPE (♀, here designated): “S/[ous] les pierres bord; des torrents [Amhara Region,] Mts.; Abboïmiéda [Abboï-Miéda / <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=39.767&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.517" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 39.767/lat 10.517)">Ābuyē Mēda</a>, 10.517°N, 39.767°E] (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=39.767&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.517" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 39.767/lat 10.517)">Abyssi</a>;nie) 3800 à 4000 m; 7bre [Septembre 1881, leg. A. Raffray] \ pectinatus; Fvl. \ Deleaster; Er. \ R.I.Sc.N.B. 17.479; Deleaster; Coll. et det. A. Fauvel \ ♀ \ Deleaster; pectinatus Fauvel; det. Makranczy, 2001 \ Lectotype; Deleaster; pectinatus Fauvel; Des. G. Cuccodoro; &amp; Gy. Makranczy 2012” (ISNB).</p> <p>PARALECTOTYPE (1): same data as lectotype, 1♀ without head (ISNB).</p> <p>OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: none.</p> <p>REDESCRIPTION</p> <p>Measurements (n = 1; unit = mm): HW = 1.26; TW = 1.10; PW = 1.22; SW = 1.76; AW = 2.13; HL = 0.91; EL = 0.53; TL = 0.11; PL = 1.03; SL = 2.24; SC = 2.13; FB = 4.38; BL = 7.18.</p> <p>Habitus as in Fig. 1. Body predominantly reddish brown to dark brown, with head slightly darker and legs, scape, pedicel and borders of abdomen paler. Pubescence dense, with fine, short, depressed hairs, rather inconspicuous; presence of some darker, stronger, erect bristles near pronotal angles.</p> <p>Head (Fig. 4) rather transverse with clypeus strongly projecting, latter slightly narrower than in the other species. Frontoclypeal (epistomal) suture marked as a strongly impressed transversal groove; surface of clypeus shiny but with very fine coriaceous microsculpture and traces of punctation. Vertex with gently curved, broad grooves (with remnants of ocelli in their middle) extending anterolaterally from middle of neck margin to middle of inner eyes margin, forming together a rather V-shaped impression surrounding disc filled with dense granulose microsculpture similar to that in the groove delineating dorsal part of neck; disc shiny but sparsely punctate with dome-like convexity only feebly delimited from the gentle supraantennal protuberances by shallow longitudinal impressions, latter almost smooth. Antennae (Fig. 12) with third antennomere as long as first, other articles approximately twice as long as broad.</p> <p>Pronotum (Fig. 4) narrowing posteriorly with lateral margins sinuate; hind angles rather sharp; lateral portions of posterior margin slightly arcuate; presence of two gently protruding knob-like elevations near posterior angles; presence of shallow, curved subbasal impression filled with rough microsculpture; presence of two shallow semi-longitudinal impressions anteriad posterior angles filled with dense punctation and microsculpture making them opaque; medial groove shallow, evanescent in subbasal impression; disc with fine coriaceous/substrigulate microsculpture (except in middle just anteriorly subbasal median spots) in directionality surrounding centre, less distinct than the relatively strong, sparse punctation on centre of disc. Elytra with postscutellar area shortly depressed longitudinally; posterior portion of disc only slightly swollen; posterior portion of sutural margin just slightly below level of disc; posterior margin arcuate (Fig. 8). Legs relatively long and slender, protarsus and in a lesser extent mesotarsus with articles 1 to 4 expanded, outer halves of mesotibia and metatibia with distinct ctenidium consisting of spinules.</p> <p>Abdomen broadest in middle, narrowing anteriorly and posteriorly; laterosternites very broad. Pubescence on laterobasal parts of tergites (Fig. 13) directed strongly outwards. Pectinate middle (comb) of apical margin of tergite VIII as in Fig. 9.</p> <p>Sexual characters: Female sternite VIII expanded subapically, subtriangular, narrowly rounded apically, with tiny irregular incisions on apical margin. The male of this species is unknown, but externally the males and females in the closely related species do not seem to have any consistent differences, except that the apex of sternite IX is in males often exposed (as on Fig. 16), while its absence suggests the opposite sex, even if the coxites (only present in females) cannot be readily seen. Both sexes in these three species have conspicuous medioapical comb-like structures of tergite VIII, and they are similar in all examined specimens.</p> <p>DISTRIBUTION: The species is known only from Ethiopia, from its type locality that appears to be the northernmost occurrence for the genus in the Afrotropics.</p> <p>COMMENTS: Delaster pectinatus is easily distingusished from its Afrotropical congeners by the presence on abdominal tergite VIII of a comb lacking minute mesal denticle. The description erroneously mentions two male specimens. Albert Fauvel might have been confused by the “pectinate” apex of the tergite VIII considered as a male secondary sexual character, while it is similar in both sexes.</p> <p>The types labels miss the informations pertaining to their collector and collecting year. Fauvel (1882) indicates in the orginal description that the collector is Achille Raffray. We pinpoint here that the collection year is 1881 (Raffray 1882).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AD87C0EC34E873FF60ABE3FC49D457	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Cuccodoro, Giulio;Makranczy, György	Cuccodoro, Giulio, Makranczy, György (2013): Review of the Afrotropical species of Deleaster Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (4): 537-547, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5823328
03AD87C0EC32E87EFF60A859FCE9D518.text	03AD87C0EC32E87EFF60A859FCE9D518.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Deleaster gibbosus Cuccodoro & Makranczy 2013	<div><p>Deleaster gibbosus new species</p> <p>Figs 3, 6-7, 11, 14-20</p> <p>HOLOTYPE (♂): DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (ZAIRE): North Kivu, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=29.916666&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=0.38333333" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 29.916666/lat 0.38333333)">Northern face of Ruwenzori</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=29.916666&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=0.38333333" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 29.916666/lat 0.38333333)">camp de Kilindera</a> [0°23'N, 29°55'E], 2750 m, VII-VIII.1974, [leg.] R.P.M. Lejeune, à la lampe U.V. (MRAC).</p> <p>PARATYPES (7): same data as holotype, 1♂ (MRAC); UGANDA: Western Region, Kasese District, 8km NWW Nyakalengija, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=29.972183&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=0.35801667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 29.972183/lat 0.35801667)">Rwenzori Mts. National Park</a>, main trail from John Matte Hut to Nyabitaba Hut, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=29.972183&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=0.35801667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 29.972183/lat 0.35801667)">Mubuku River</a>, 0°21.481'N, 29°58.331'E, 2538m, 17.VIII.2008, [leg.] V.I. Gusarov (3551), river banks near bridge 1♂, 3ex. [DNA sample barcodes 10073492, 10073493, 10073495] (ZMUN), 1♀ (MHNG), 1♂ (NHMW).</p> <p>DESCRIPTION: Measurements (n = 5; unit = mm): HW = 1.22 (1.16-1.29); TW = 1.05 (0.99-1.09); PW = 1.17 (1.08-1.22); SW = 1.72 (1.61-1.78); AW = 1.95 (1.80- 2.10); HL = 0.82 (0.75-0.87); EL = 0.45 (0.44-0.47); TL = 0.14 (0.12-0.16); PL = 0.96 (0.91-1.00); SL = 2.14 (2.02-2.26); SC = 1.97 (1.83-2.08); FB = 4.21 (3.94-4.40); BL = 6.64 (6.20-7.11).</p> <p>Similar to D. pectinatus, from which it may be distinguished as follows: habitus as in Fig. 3; scape and pedicel almost concolorous with flagellum; head as in Figs 6-7; clypeus slightly trapezoid; frontoclypeal (epistomal) suture marked as a slightly impressed transversal groove; vertex with markedly curved, broad grooves (with the remnants of the ocelli in their middle) extending anterolaterally from middle of neck margin to middle of inner eyes margin, forming together a rather U-shaped impression surrounding disc, filled with dense granulose microsculpture unlike the imbricate microsculpture filling most of the groove delineating dorsal part of neck; pronotum (Figs 6-7) with hind angles rather blunt; lateral portions of posterior pronotal margin broadly arcuate; presence of two rather strongly protruding knob-like elevations near posterior pronotal angles; presence of deep, curved pronotal subbasal impression; medial pronotal groove shallow, distinct on entire length, including in subbasal impression; pronotal disc filled with conspicuous medium/fine substrigulate microsculpture, in directionality surrounding centre, latter with scattered, fine and inconspicuous punctation; elytra with posterior portion of disc conspicuously swollen; posterior portion of sutural margin markedly below level of disc; posterior elytral margin subangulate (Fig. 15); abdomen with pubescence on laterobasal parts of tergites (Fig. 14) directed only slightly outwards; pectinate middle (comb) of apical margin of abdominal tergite VIII as in Fig. 11.</p> <p>Sexual characters: Female abdominal sternite VIII sinuate subapically, broadly rounded and very finely serrate on apical margin. Male abdominal tergite IX as in Fig. 19; tergite X as in Fig. 20; sternite VIII broadly produced on apex, with membranous edge; aedeagus as in Figs 17-18.</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY: The Latin name of the new species means “humped” and refers to the conspicuously swollen posterior part of the elytra.</p> <p>DISTRIBUTION: The species is known only from the Ruwenzori range in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) and Uganda.</p> <p>COMMENTS: Within Afrotropical Deleaster, the presence of conspicuously swollen posterior portion of elytral disc is diagnostic for D. gibbosus. The species shares with D. negus the presence on abdominal tergite VIII of a comb with a minute mesal denticle, but the two species have very distinctive aedeagi.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AD87C0EC32E87EFF60A859FCE9D518	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Cuccodoro, Giulio;Makranczy, György	Cuccodoro, Giulio, Makranczy, György (2013): Review of the Afrotropical species of Deleaster Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (4): 537-547, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5823328
03AD87C0EC3FE87DFF7FA9B0FCF2D55C.text	03AD87C0EC3FE87DFF7FA9B0FCF2D55C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Deleaster negus Cuccodoro & Makranczy 2013	<div><p>Deleaster negus new species</p> <p>Figs 2, 5, 10, 21-24</p> <p>HOLOTYPE (♂): ETHIOPIA: SNNPR [Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region], Gamu Gofa, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=37.5605&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=6.2031" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 37.5605/lat 6.2031)">Gughe Mts.</a>, 6km SW Chencha, 6.2031°N, 37.5605°E, 2515m, 05.VIII.2008, leg. J. Beck, automatic light trap (7-11pm), edge of a large pasture next to forest fragment in good condition, apart from dead wood collecting (NHMB).</p> <p>PARATYPES (9): same data as holotype, 2♂, 3♀ (NHMB), 1♂, 1♀ (MHNG), 1♂ (MRAC), 1♂ (NHMW).</p> <p>DESCRIPTION: Measurements (n = 10: unit = mm): HW = 1.27 (1.22-1.31); TW = 1.09 (1.04-1.12); PW = 1.19 (1.15-1.23); SW = 1.73 (1.66-1.86); AW = 2.05 (1.95- 2.22); HL = 0.85 (0.83-0.87); EL = 0.51 (0.48-0.54); TL = 0.13 (0.10-0.15); PL = 1.02 (0.97-1.06); SL = 2.09 (1.98-2.21); SC = 1.96 (1.81-2.10); FB = 4.32 (4.05-4.56); BL = 7.11 (6.18-7.89).</p> <p>Similar to D. pectinatus, from which it may be distinguished as follows: habitus as in Fig. 2; scape and pedicel almost concolorous with flagellum; head as in Fig. 5; vertex with markedly curved, broad grooves (with the remnants of the ocelli in their middle) extending anterolaterally from middle of neck margin to middle of inner eyes margin, forming together a rather U-shaped impression surrounding the disc, filled with dense granulose microsculpture unlike the imbricate microsculpture filling most of the groove delineating dorsal part of neck; pronotum (Fig. 5) with hind angles evenly rounded; presence of two rather strongly protruding knob-like elevations near posterior pronotal angles; presence of deep, curved pronotal subbasal impression; medial pronotal groove very fine, indistinct posteriorly, an indistinct coriaceous/substrigulate microsculpture in directionality surrounding the centre of pronotal disc, but there missing on larger spots, leaving the surface smooth and shiny; elytra with postscutellar area gently depressed till middle of suture; posterior portion of elytral disc not swollen; posterior portion of sutural margin on level with disc; abdomen with laterosternites moderately broad; pubescence on laterobasal parts of tergites not directed outwards; pectinate middle (comb) of apical margin of abdominal tergite VIII as in Fig. 10.</p> <p>Sexual characters: Female abdominal sternite VIII expanded subapically, subtriangular, narrowly rounded apically and with couple of tiny (and occasionally also 1-2 larger) incisions on apical margin. Male abdominal tergite IX as in Fig. 23; tergite X as in Fig. 24; sternite VIII with slightly and narrowly produced apex, with membranous edge; aedeagus as in Figs 21-22.</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet 'negus' refers to the title of king in Ethiopia.</p> <p>It is a noun in apposition.</p> <p>DISTRIBUTION: The species is known only from Ethiopia, from its type locality that lies more south than that of D. pectinatus Fauvel.</p> <p>COMMENTS: Deleaster negus is the only Afrotropical member of the genus to possess on the abdominal tergite VIII a comb with a minute mesal denticle in combination with the posterior portion of the elytral disc lacking hump.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AD87C0EC3FE87DFF7FA9B0FCF2D55C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Cuccodoro, Giulio;Makranczy, György	Cuccodoro, Giulio, Makranczy, György (2013): Review of the Afrotropical species of Deleaster Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (4): 537-547, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5823328
