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)

The genus Thinodromus in West-Central Africa ( Coleoptera) 61 - Primary and secondary sexual features. Male: aedeagus (Fig. 74), apical edge of sternite VII with a row of 20 strong and short spines (Fig. 63) and in ventral view (Fig. 64), sternite VIII (Fig. 75), tergite X (Fig. 76); female: unknown. Comparative notes - This is the second known species of the Thinodromus thoracicus species group. Compared to T. thoracicus, this species has a shorter row of spines on the apical edge of sternite VII. It also has a notably more elongate aedeagus, albeit with similar features. Externally, females might be more difficult to distinguish, but this species is slightly smaller, the pronotum less wide, the posterior 3/5 of the pronotal side less concave, rather straight, the 10th antennomere rather similar to the 9th and the temples less pronounced, less bulging out behind the eye. Etymology - The species is named after the collector of the holotype specimen. * Acknowledgments - Apart from the curators of the institutions from where the study material originated, I would like to thank MICHAEL ENGEL (University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA) for helping me with the photography of specimens, KRISZTINA BUCZKÓ (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary) for the use of the SEM, MING-LUEN JENG (University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA) for arrangements and carrying specimens, THIERRY DEUVE and the late NICOLE BERTI (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France) for various favours regarding borrowed material and DIDIER DRUGMAND (Brussels, Belgium) who was extremely helpful and arranged my visit in Paris. REFERENCES CAMERON, M. 1948: New species of Staphylinidae from Africa. - Revue Française dEntomologie 15: 39-43. GILDENKOV, M. Y U. 2000: Novy podrod i sem novyi dlya nauki vidov roda Thinodromus iz efiopskoi zoogeograficheskoi oblast'i (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). [New subgenus and seven species, new to science, of the genus Thinodromus from Ethiopian zoogeographic region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae).] - Kharkov Entomological Society Gazette 8(1): 43-56. GILDENKOV, M. YU. 2004: Mendaxinus - Novy podrod roda Thinodromus Kraatz, 1858 iz tropicheskoi Afriki (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). [Mendaxinus - New subgenus of the genus Thinodromus Kraatz, 1858 from tropical Africa (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae).] - Kharkov Entomological Society Gazette 11(1-2): 9-12. MAKRANCZY, GY. 2006: Systematics and phylogenetic relationships of the genera in the Carpelimus group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae). - Annales historiconaturales musei nationalis hungarici 98: 29-119. Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 101, 2009