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patch medially; legs yellow, abdomen blackish, forceps dark red. Cuticle punctured and pubescent. Head large, slightly longer than broad; postfrontal and coronal sutures well marked.Eyes comparatively large, but shorter than length of head behind eyes. Posterior margin of head concave. Antennae 11-jointed; first joint long, about as long as distance between antenna! bases; second quadrate, third moderately long, about as long as fourth. Pronotum transverse, lateral margins straight, parallel-sided, posterior margin rounded. Tegmina short, but a little longer than pronotum; posterior margin truncate, but postero-humeral angles rounded. Wings absent. Abdomen fusiform, a little depressed, glandular lateral folds on third tergite small, on fourth tergite large.Ultimate tergite large, transverse, a little depressed medially. Penultimate sternite simple, rounded posteriorly. Pygidium well developed; dorsal part rounded, ventral one flattened, posterior margin concave. Forceps (Fig. 13) very long, flattened section long basally, with specific inner margin: straight, inner margins of basal half of the forceps parallel, with some smaller or larger teeth, sometimes denticles, and a larger single tooth medially. Genitalia (Fig. 14) comparatively short and wide; central parameral plate well developed, virga within genital lobe moderately short, shorter than length of external paramere. Basal vesicle of virga prominent. External paramere well developed, outer margin with a characteristic excision medially. Length of body with forceps: 18-31 mm. Female unknown. Holotype male: Armenia, Shamshadinsk, distr. Kirki, Abhana Tala, 8. 6. 1962. legit: AWAKIAN, gen.prep. No. 965 det. Dr. H. STEINMANN. - Paratypes males: ditto, Pr. Delijan, 28.VII. 28, legit: O. BOLAVSKAJA, 1 ex; ditto, circ. lac. Gokcin, pr. Elenovka, 1929, legit: BOCHARE V, 1 ex; ditto, Arizbekovskij, Selo Terp, pechelovod Sovkhoz, v paseke, 1. 5. 62, legit: DANIELIAN, 1 ex (deposited in the Zoological Institute, Yerevan). - Japan, Hokkaido, 20 km N from Sapporo, 1. VIII. 1980, legit: E. SCHMIDT NIELSEN, 1 ex (deposited in the Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Kobenhavn). - Armenia, Arizbekovkij , Selo Terp, pechelovod Sovkhoz, v paseke, legit: DANIELIAN, 1 ex; Caucasus, 1 ex; Mandschurei, Charbin, 1 ex; Gremiatchka, Dank, i Raz. 4. VI. 09, legit: SEMENOV-TIAN-SHANSKIJ, gen.prep. No. 67, det. Dr. H. STEINMANN (deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest). Its nearest ally is Forficula tomis (Kolenati, 1846), with the following differences: 1. Male pygidium 2. Inner margins of male forceps 3. Virga within male genital lobe 4. Outer margin of male external paramere paratomis sp. n. as in Fig. 13 with denticles short excised tomis (Kolenati) as in Fig. 11 crenulate long smooth REFERENCES BEY-BIENKO, G .A. (1936): Dermaptera. - Faune de l'URSS, 5: 1-239. BEY-BIENKO, G.A. (1958): Orthoptera - Dermaptera. - Zsivotniij mir SSSR, 5 : 4 3 5 -456. BEY-BIENKO, G.A. (1967): Dermaptera of Afghanistan.- Acta ent.bohem., 64: 407-438. SAKAI, S. (1973): Dermapterorum Catalogus Praeliminaris.VH.Forficulidae.- Daito BunkaUniv., Tokyo, pp. 357. STEINMANN, H. (1975): Notes on the Leningrad types of Dermaptera described by Semenov and Bey-Bienko. - Folia ent. hung., 28: 147-175. STEINMANN, H. (1977): A survey of Palaearctic Anechurinae (Dermaptera: Forficulidae). - Acta zool. hung., 23: 199-212. Author's address: Dr. H. STEINMANN Zoological Department Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest Baross u. 13. Hungary
