Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 101. (Budapest 2009)
Makranczy, Gy.: The genus Thinodromus Kraatz, 1857 in West-Central Africa (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae)
ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 101 Budapest, 2009 pp. 33-61 The genus Thinodromus Kraatz, 1857 in West-Central Africa (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) GY. MAKRANCZY Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary. E-mail: makranczy@nhmus.hu Abstract - The West-Central African (countries mostly former French colonies) Thinodromus fauna is investigated. The region's fauna is very incompletely known, many taxa still await description. The naming of the structures in the aedeagus is a first step towards establishing homologies. The region's named species (T. decorsei CAMERON, 1948, T. nigerius GLLDENKOV, 2000, T. thoracicus GLLDENKOV, 2000) are reviewed, eight distinctive species are hereby described as new: Thinodromus excultus sp. n. (Equatorial Guinea), T. gabonicus sp. n. (Gabon), T. kedougouensis sp. n. (Senegal), T. makokouensis sp. n. (Gabon), T. malkinianus sp. n. (Cameroon), T. mateui sp. n. (Gabon), T. mauritaniens sp. n. (Mauritania), T. odzalensis sp. n. (Congo). With 76 figures. Key words - Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae, Thinodromus, aedeagal characters, new species. INTRODUCTION Most species of Thinodromus KRAATZ, 1857 are very uniformly looking, so it is not surprising that rather few taxa are described from Africa. The area treated in this paper ranges from Mauritania to Chad and Congo. This work excludes the Thinodromus aethiopicus species group that superficially looks like Carpelimus rather than Thinodromus , and for which the greatest diversity is in Central and Eastern Africa, with only one described species from Sierra Leone. This species group is mentioned in certain literature as the subgenus Mendaxinus GlLDENKOV, 2004 (type species: Trogophloeus schoutedeni CAMERON, 1928) and is kept with Thinodromus for Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 101, 2009
