identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
B97B87AAFFA0EE5B73B2C9A5FE425E06.text	B97B87AAFFA0EE5B73B2C9A5FE425E06.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Medon profundus Assing 2014	<div><p>Medon profundus nov.sp. (Figs 1-7, Map 1)</p> <p>T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype: " CHINA (border Shaanxi-Sichuan) [now border Shaanxi- Chongqing], <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=109.583336&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=31.733334" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 109.583336/lat 31.733334)">Daba Shan</a>, 20 km SSE Zhenping, 1700-1800 m, 31°44'N, 109°35'E (small creek vall., young dry mixed forest, leaf-litt., moss sifted) 9.&amp; 12.VII.2001 Wrase [07] / Holotypus Medon profundus sp.n. det. V. Assing 2013 " (cAss). Paratypes: 1: " CHINA: Border Shaanxi - Sichuan [today border Shaanxi-Chongqing] (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=109.583336&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=31.733334" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 109.583336/lat 31.733334)">Daba Shan</a>), pass 20 km SSE Zhenping, 1700-1800 m, 31°44'N, 109°35'E, 9.VII.2001, leg. M. Schülke [C01-07] / young dry mixed forest, field edge, small creek valley, moss (sifted) [C01-07]" (cSch); 1, 1: "P. R. China, Sichuan, Emei Shan, N 29°33.6', E103°20.6', 27.vi.-5.vii.2009, 1800-2400 m, sifting11-17, V. Grebennikov " (CAS, cAss).</p> <p>Etymology: The specific epithet (Latin, adjective: deep) alludes to the profound posterior excision of the male sternite VII.</p> <p>D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 4.7-5.7 mm; length of forebody 2.6-3.0 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 1. Coloration: head blackish; pronotum brown; elytra dark yellowish-brown; abdomen dark-brown; legs dark-yellowish; antennae reddish to dark-brown.</p> <p>Head (Fig. 2) approximately as broad as long; punctation fine and dense; interstices with shallow microreticulation. Eyes large and rather weakly convex, 0.8-1.0 times as long as postocular region in dorsal view. Antenna 1.6-1.8 mm long.</p> <p>Pronotum (Fig. 2) approximately 1.05 times as broad as long and 0.96-0.98 times as broad as head; anterior and posterior margins concave in the middle; punctation dense, fine (though less so than head), and granulose; midline without impunctate longitudinal band.</p> <p>Elytra (Fig. 2) long and broad, approximately 1.2 times as long as pronotum; punctation fine, very dense, and weakly granulose. Hind wings fully developed. Metatarsomere I distinctly longer than II.</p> <p>Abdomen slightly narrower than elytra; punctation extremely fine and dense; interstices with shallow microreticulation; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe.</p> <p>: sternite VII (Fig. 3) with large and profound posterior excision, margin of this excision furnished with a distinct comb of numerous long palisade setae and with an additional row of long black setae (Fig. 4); sternite VIII (Fig. 5) small in relation to sternite VII, transverse, and with median impression, this impression without setae, but enframed by some long black setae, posterior excision deep and broad; aedeagus (Figs 6- 7) approximately 0.9 mm long; ventral process basally distinctly angled in lateral view, apically with ventral carinae and with median furrow; internal sac with numerous dark structures.</p> <p>C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: Together with the two other species described below, M. profundus forms a distinct species group, hereafter referred to as the M. profundus group, characterized among Palaearctic Medon by the fine punctation of the forebody (general appearance somewhat resembling species of Lithocharis DEJEAN 1833), the granulose punctation of the pronotum, the deep posterior excision of the male sternite VII with an uninterrupted comb of numerous long palisade setae, the deep and broad posterior excision of the male sternite VIII, and by the morphology of the aedeagus (ventral process distinctly separated from the aedeagal capsule, basally either abruptly curved or distinctly angled, and ventrally with carinae; internal sac with numerous dark structures). The granulose punctation of the pronotum, the modifications of the male sternites VII and VIII, as well as the derived morphology of the aedeagus evidently represent synapomorphies and leave no doubt that the M. profundus group is monophyletic. For characters distinguishing M. profundus from the two species described below see the comparative notes in the following sections.</p> <p>D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d n a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The species is currently known from two localities in China, one in the Daba Shan (Shaanxi / Chongqing) and one in the Emei Shan (Sichuan) (Map 1). The specimens were collected at altitudes between 1700 and 2400 m, those from the Daba Shan were sifted from leaf litter and moss in a young dry mixed forest.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B97B87AAFFA0EE5B73B2C9A5FE425E06	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	Assing, V.	Assing, V. (2014): Three new species and a new species group of Medon from China and Taiwan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1): 515-523, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305323
B97B87AAFFA2EE5D73B2C827FD815F0E.text	B97B87AAFFA2EE5D73B2C827FD815F0E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Medon yunnanicus Assing 2014	<div><p>Medon yunnanicus nov.sp. (Figs 8-13, Map 1)</p> <p>T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype: " CHINA: Yunnan, Baoshan Pref., Gaoligong Shan, 78 km N Tengchong, 2000 m, 25°44'49''N, 98°33'29''E, cleft with creek and forest remnant, litter &amp; dead wood sifted, 1.IX.2009, leg. M. Schülke [CH 09-21] / Holotypus Medon yunnanicus sp. n. det. V. Assing 2013 " (cAss). Paratype: same data as holotype (cSch).</p> <p>E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from Yunnan, the Chinese province where the type locality is situated.</p> <p>D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 5.5 mm; length of forebody 3.1-3.2 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 8. Coloration: head blackish; pronotum and elytra pale-brown to dark-brown, with the humeral angles more or less extensively paler (yellowish-brown); abdomen brown; legs dark-yellowish; antennae reddish-brown, with antennomeres I-II reddish.</p> <p>Head (Fig. 9) as broad as long or weakly oblong; punctation fine and dense; interstices without microreticulation. Eyes moderately large and weakly convex, approximately 0.8 times as long as postocular region in dorsal view. Antenna 1.7-1.8 mm long.</p> <p>Pronotum (Fig. 9) 1.02-1.04 times as broad as long and approximately as broad as head; anterior and posterior margins concave in the middle; punctation dense, fine, and granulose; midline with very narrow impunctate longitudinal band.</p> <p>Elytra (Fig. 9) long and broad, nearly 1.2 times as long as pronotum; punctation fine, very dense, and weakly granulose. Hind wings fully developed. Metatarsomere I distinctly longer than II.</p> <p>Abdomen distinctly narrower than elytra; punctation extremely fine and dense; tergites III-VI with shallow, tergites VII-VIII with pronounced microreticulation; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe.</p> <p>: sternite VII (Fig. 10) with large and moderately deep posterior excision, margin of this excision furnished with a distinct comb of numerous palisade setae and with an additional row of long black setae; sternite VIII (Fig. 11) small in relation to sternite VII, transverse, and with shallow median impression, this impression with fine depressed pubescence and with some longer black setae, posterior excision deeply and broadly Vshaped; aedeagus (Figs 12-13) 0.98 mm long; ventral process basally abruptly curved in lateral view and apically notched in ventral view, apically with pair of ventral carinae; internal sac with numerous dark structures.</p> <p>C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: This species is characterized particularly by the distinctive shapes and chaetotaxy of the male sternites VII and VIII, as well as by the morphology of the aedeagus. It differs from the evidently closely related M. profundus by slightly larger body size, the absence of microsculpture on the head, the presence of a narrow impunctate band along the midline of the pronotum, the less deep posterior excision of the male sternite VII, the pubescent median impression and the V-shaped posterior excision of the male sternite VIII, and by the morphology of the larger aedeagus (shape of ventral process both in lateral and in ventral view).</p> <p>D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d n a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The type locality is situated in the Gaoligong Shan, Yunnan, China (Map 1). The specimens were sifted from leaf litter in a stream valley at an altitude of 2000 m.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B97B87AAFFA2EE5D73B2C827FD815F0E	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	Assing, V.	Assing, V. (2014): Three new species and a new species group of Medon from China and Taiwan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1): 515-523, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305323
B97B87AAFFA4EE5F73B2CFE9FD1A5E76.text	B97B87AAFFA4EE5F73B2CFE9FD1A5E76.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Medon alesi Assing 2014	<div><p>Medon alesi nov.sp. (Figs 14-19, Map 1)</p> <p>T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype: " TAIWAN, Pingtung Hsien, Peitawushan trail at 1500 m, 1.V.1992, A. Smetana [T110] / Holotypus Medon alesi sp. n. det. V. Assing 2013 " (cSme). Paratypes: 2, 1: same data as holotype (cSme, cAss); 1: " TAIWAN, Pingtung Hsien, Pietawushan [sic] Trail at 2000 m 23.V.1991, A. Smetana [T91]" (cSme); 1: " TAIWAN, Taichung Hsien, Anmashan, 2225 m 11.V.1992, A. Smetana [T123]" (cSme, cAss); 1: " TAIWAN, Taichung Hsien, Anmashan, 2225 m, 14. V.92, A. Smetana [T130]" (cSme); 2, 4: " TAIWAN, Taichung Hsien, Anmashan, 2230 m, 1. V.90, A. Smetana [T33]" (cSme, cAss); 4: " TAIWAN, Taichung Hsien, Anmashan, 2230 m, 12. V.92, A. Smetana [T127]" (cSme, cAss); 1: " TAIWAN, Taichung Hsien, Anmashan, 2230 m 4.V.1990, A. Smetana [T43]" (cAss); 4: " TAIWAN, Nantou Hsien, Nenkaoshan trail, 2050-2150 m, 8.V.1992, A. Smetana [T120]" (cSme); 1: " TAIWAN, Nantou Hsien, Shanlinchi, 1650 m 19.V.1991, A. Smetana [T87]" (cSme); 1, 2: TAIWAN - Chiayi Co., Alishan, Nat. Scen. Area, Road 18, km 84, 2100 m, decaying stump, 8.I.2009, leg. Vít [14]" cAss).</p> <p>E t y m o l o g y: The species is dedicated to Aleš Smetana (Ottawa), who collected nearly all the type specimens.</p> <p>D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 4.9-5.8 mm; length of forebody 2.7-3.3 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 14. Coloration: head blackish; pronotum and abdomen dark-brown; elytra brown; legs dark-yellowish; antennae brown to dark-brown.</p> <p>Head (Fig. 15) as broad as long or weakly oblong; punctation fine and dense; interstices with shallow microreticulation. Eyes moderately large and rather weakly convex, approximately 0.7 times as long as postocular region in dorsal view. Antenna 1.7-1.8 mm long.</p> <p>Pronotum (Fig. 15) approximately 1.05 times as broad as long and as broad as head; anterior and posterior margins concave in the middle; punctation dense, fine, and granulose; midline without impunctate longitudinal band.</p> <p>Elytra (Fig. 15) long and broad, approximately 1.15-1.18 times as long as pronotum; punctation finely granulose and very dense. Hind wings fully developed. Metatarsomere I distinctly longer than II.</p> <p>Abdomen slightly narrower than elytra; punctation extremely fine and dense; interstices with microreticulation; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe.</p> <p>: sternite VII (Fig. 16) with moderately deep posterior excision, margin of this excision furnished with a distinct comb of numerous long palisade setae and with an additional row of long black setae; sternite VIII (Fig. 17) small in relation to sternite VII, transverse, without median impression, median portion with fine pubescence and with some longer black setae, posterior excision deep and broad, margins of this excision without pubescence; aedeagus (Figs 18-19) approximately 0.9 mm long; ventral process basally abruptly curved in lateral view, apically with pair of long ventral carinae; internal sac with numerous dark structures.</p> <p>C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: Medon alesi differs from the two other species of the M. profundus group by slightly smaller eyes, slightly shorter elytra, the shape of the posterior excision of the male sternite VII (similar to that of M. yunnanicus), the shape and chaetotaxy of the male sternite VIII, and by the differently shaped ventral process of the aedeagus (basally abruptly curved, not distinctly angled in lateral view).</p> <p>D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d n a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The known distribution is confined to several localities in Taiwan (Map 1). Most specimens were sifted from leaf litter in primary broadleaved, evergreen, and mixed forests (SMETANA pers. comm.), three from a decaying stump, at altitudes of 1500-2230 m.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B97B87AAFFA4EE5F73B2CFE9FD1A5E76	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	Assing, V.	Assing, V. (2014): Three new species and a new species group of Medon from China and Taiwan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1): 515-523, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305323
B97B87AAFFA6EE5F73B2CFA2FDE9588F.text	B97B87AAFFA6EE5F73B2CFA2FDE9588F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Medon gilvimarginatus Assing 2014	<div><p>Medon gilvimarginatus nov.nom.</p> <p>Medon flavomarginatus ASSING 2013: 252; preoccupied.</p> <p>C o m m e n t: Medon flavomarginatus ASSING 2013 is a primary junior homonym of Medon flavomarginatus BERNHAUER 1942, a species originally described from Costa Rica as Medon (Lithocharis) flavomarginatus (BERNHAUER 1942); Lithocharis DEJEAN 1833 is now a distinct genus. The replacement name M. gilvimarginatus is proposed for M. flavomarginatus ASSING 2013.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B97B87AAFFA6EE5F73B2CFA2FDE9588F	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	Assing, V.	Assing, V. (2014): Three new species and a new species group of Medon from China and Taiwan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1): 515-523, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305323
B97B87AAFFA6EE5F73B2CF1FFE0D598D.text	B97B87AAFFA6EE5F73B2CF1FFE0D598D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Medon ripicola (KRAATZ 1854)	<div><p>Medon ripicola (KRAATZ 1854)</p> <p>C o m m e n t: This species was erroneously indicated from the Canary Islands in a previous contribution (ASSING 2013). There is currently no confirmed record of M. ripicola from this archipelago.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B97B87AAFFA6EE5F73B2CF1FFE0D598D	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	Assing, V.	Assing, V. (2014): Three new species and a new species group of Medon from China and Taiwan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1): 515-523, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305323
