Les genres Eudesis Reitter, 1882, et Pseudoeudesis Binaghi, 1948 : nouvelles données taxonomiques (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)

Abstract

The genera Eudesis Reitter, 1882, and Pseudoeudesis Binaghi, 1948: new taxonomical data (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Clarifications are made about representatives of the genera Eudesis Reitter, 1882, and Pseudoeudesis Binaghi, 1948, with illustration of new morphological characters. Eudesis adela Reitter, 1882, from Pyrénées-Orientales (France), whose holotype is studied, is transferred to the genus Pseudoeudesis; P. coiffaiti Franz, 1958, from Iberian Peninsula, is transferred to the genus Eudesis. Some comments are given concerning E. aglena Reitter, 1882, endemic species of Sardinia, wrongly described from Corsica. Two new species, P. binaghii n. sp. and P. demoflysi n. sp., from Tunisia, are described. A lectotype is designated for P. sulcipennis sulcipennis (Reitter, 1890), from Algeria. Pseudoeudesis sicula normandi Binaghi, 1948, from Tunisia, is considered as a distinct species.