taxonID	type	description	language	source
03DB87D4A959DF6F2DCAFABDFE3D0D8D.taxon	description	Redescription. Body (Fig. 1 a) reddish-brown, covered with long, suberect golden setae; length 2.15 – 2.65 mm; lateral side of head under ocular spines with long and erected setae. Head (Fig. 1 b, c, 2 a) wider than long, antennal tubercles prominent; frontal sulcus large, triangular, opened on frontal rostrum, which is triangular and extended anteriorly; with well-defined lateral carinae orginated from anten- nal tubercle and reaching occipital region; with more or less prominent hump, bearing one long (Fig. 1 b) or tree vertexal carinae of different length, one long, and two short (Fig. 1 c), punctuation from sparse to dense; with two deep vertexal foveae. Eyes from well-developed to more or less reduced, always with distinct sharp lateral spine (Figs 1 a, b, c). Maxillary palpi with palpomeres I short, II lengthily pedunculate, III small, IV large and triangular. Antennae with eleven antennomeres; scape slightly longer than wide or as long as wide; pedicel longer than wide; antennomeres III and IV longer than wide or as long as wide; antennomere V – VII longer than wide, VIII and IX as long as wide, X wider than long and XI longer than wide, antennal club 3 - segmented, lacking any modifications, long 0.32 – 0.37 mm. Pronotum (Fig. 2 b) longer than wide, widest in the middle; dorsal keels well-definied, forming acute tooth close to base; area between keels strongly impressed; lateral antebasal foveae deep, connected by weak antebasal sulcus; median antebasal fovea large, connected with thin vertical carina to posterior margin of pronotum; basolateral fo- veae small, not connected by sulcus. Prosternum with two lateral procoxal foveae (Fig. 2 b, lpcf). Mesoventrite with one, large median mesoventral foveae, with deep, bifurcated, lateral mesoventral foveae and two deep lateral mesocoxal foveae (Fig. 2 c, mmvf, lmvf, lmcf). Metaventrite with two small lateral metaventral foveae (Fig. 2 b, lmvf). Elytra (Fig. 2 d) wider than long; each elytron with two large basal foveae, inner one bifurcate at base; sutural and discal striae short, humeri well-developed. Abdomen (Fig. 2 e) 0.54 – 0.84 mm long; first visible tergite (IV) large, wider than long; external carinae paral- lel to margin, orignate from exterior part of basolateral fovea; median carinae triangular, area between them with shallow depression; visible tergites 2 – 4 (V – VII) smallest, wider than long, lacking foveae or carinae; first visible sternite (IV) with two basolateral foveae. Legs long and slender. Hindwings present or lacking. Aedegus (Fig. 3) moderately sclerotized, symmetrical, basal capsule oval, apical lobe with large and slightly laterally curved apex. Sexual dimorphism. Males with metatrochanters modified, with one spine, in females simple.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A959DF6F2DCAFABDFE3D0D8D.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Protamaurops is most primitive and less specialised Amauropini and from all other genera of the tribe, it is most similar to Batrisodes Reitter, 1882 and it is only genus with rellatively well developed eyes and presense of wings. They can usually be collected by sifting leaf-litter, hand-collecting under stones or in ant nests in the mountains (Fig. 4).	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A959DF6F2DCAFABDFE3D0D8D.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The Balkan Penisnula and Turkey (Table 1; Fig. 5).	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A959DF6F2DCAFABDFE3D0D8D.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. As noted by Müller (1944), Karaman (1961), Besuchet (1986), and later by Nonveiller and Pavićević (2008), this is a primitive genus, sharing some common characters with the tribe Batrisini Reitter, 1882. It is most closely related to the genus Paramaurops Jeannel, 1948, sharing with this genus the presence of eyes and ocular spines, paralell-sided lateral carinae on the first visible tergite and well-defined medial longitudinal carinae. Paramaurops differes from Protamaurops by 1) elytra with completely atrophied basal foveae, 2) head with small and thin median carina, and 3) pronotum with small and thin lateral carinae. The genus Protamaurops differes from all other members of the tribe Amauropini by the following combination of characters: 1) eyes moderately to well devoloped above well-defined ocular spines; 2) carinae on the head and pronotum well-developed; 3) presence of two large basal fovea on the elytra; 4) humeri prominent; 5) external stria of the first abdominal tergite parallel to the tergal margin, median carinae present.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95DDF6F2DCAFD1FFDE90CD9.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Greece (Lesbos).	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95DDF6F2DCAFBB2FE0A0A70.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Albania.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95DDF6C2DCAFA4AFC750DE9.taxon	description	Figs 1 c, 4 e, 5	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95DDF6C2DCAFA4AFC750DE9.taxon	materials_examined	Type material examined: Holotype, ♂: Bulgaria, Rhodopes Mts., Bachkovo, leg. Machulka (MHNG); Paratypes: 2 ♂♂: the same data as holotype (NMNHS, PCVB).	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95DDF6C2DCAFA4AFC750DE9.taxon	description	Description: Body slightly shiny, reddish-brown, densely pubescent, covered with long golden setae; legs, antennae and maxillary palpi slightly lighter, length: 2.26 – 2.31 mm; elytra width 0.66 – 0.68 mm. Head (Fig. 1 c) about 1.10 times as long as wide, eyes composed of four or five ommatidia located above robust ocular spine; clypeus large, rounded; frons with large, deep, triangular excavation that is slightly prolonged ante- riorly and forming angle at apex; vertex elevated, forming large hump with one well-defined, long medial carina remote from margin of frontal excavation and extending two-thirds of head length, and two short, oblique carinae on each side of the medial carinae (Fig. 1 c); vertexal pits separated, distant from lateral margin of head; surface between carinae almost glabrous. Antennae relatively long, 1.08 – 1.09 mm, scape cylindrical, about 1.12 times as long as wide, pedicel 1.5 times as long as wide, antennomeres III – IV twice as long as wide, V 2.2 times as long as wide, VI-VII 1.6 times as long as wide, VIII as long as wide, IX trapezoidal, as wide as long, antennomere X also trapezoidal, 1.25 times as wide as long, terminal antennomere, triangular, about 2.2 times as long as wide. Pronotum slightly longer than wide, about 1.15 times as long as wide, as long as head, with deep median longitudinal excavation; lateral carinae long and prominent, with large triangular dent in the basal part, median antebasal and lateral foveae well-defined. Elytra simple, wider than long, at sides round, widest in middle. Abdomen slightly narrower than elytra, first visible tergite (IV) large, distance between lateral carinae and median carina 0.16 mm; distance between median carinae 0.16 mm. Legs long and slender, simple, metatrochanters with one small medium, ventral spine. Aedeagus (Fig. 3 e) 0.36 - 0.37 mm long. Sexual dimorphism. Females unknown.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95DDF6C2DCAFA4AFC750DE9.taxon	diagnosis	Differential diagnosis. P. bulgaricus differs from all other congeners by the presence of three carinae on the head, and the shape of the aedeagus. The new species is closely related to P. dentatithorax by the proportions of antennomeres VIII and IX, both slightly wider than long and by the presence of lateral, oblique carinae on the head. They can be readily separated by the lateral carinae on head which is short in P. bulgaricus, and long in P. dentatithorax, and by the different shape of the aedeagus.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95DDF6C2DCAFA4AFC750DE9.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Bulgaria (Western Rhodopes).	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95DDF6C2DCAFA4AFC750DE9.taxon	etymology	Etymology: Named after Bulgaria, the country of the type locality.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95EDF6D2DCAF8CFFD400FDA.taxon	description	Fig. 5	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95EDF6D2DCAF8CFFD400FDA.taxon	materials_examined	Material studied: 1 ♀: Turkey, Bursa, via Uludag, 23 km from Bursa, 1500 m, forest litter, 13.05. 1976, leg. C. Besuchet, I. Löbl (MHNG).	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95EDF6D2DCAF8CFFD400FDA.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Turkey (Bursa province).	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95FDF6D2DCAFEAFFDEC0923.taxon	description	Figs 2, 3 a, b, 5	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95FDF6D2DCAFEAFFDEC0923.taxon	materials_examined	Type material studied: Lectotype, here designated: (♂) Bos D. - Gbg. B. Drama, Nordost-Griechenland. Weirather, Innsbruck, det. J. Müller (MHNG); Paralectotypes: (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀) Bos D. - Gbg. B. Drama, Nordost-Griechenland. Weirather, Innsbruck, det. J. Müller; (1 ♂): Bos D. - Gbg. B. Drama, Nordost-Griechenland. Weirather, Innsbruck (PCVB); Other material: 1 ♀: Bulgaria, Belasitsa Mts., Above Kamena Village, near Kamenski Waterfall, under stone, 700 m a. s. l., 16.9.2009, leg. B. Gueorguiev (Protamaurops sp. in Bekchiev 2011: 508); 9 ♂♂, 13 ♀♀: Bulgaria, Be- lasitsa Mts., near Kamenishki waterfall, Fagus forest, under stones, 676 m, N 41.352183 E 23.074883, 19.09.2009, leg. R. Bekchiev (NMNHS, PCPH); 1 ♀: Bulgaria, Belasitsa Mts., near Petrich Town, bank of Luda Mara river, un- der stones, 382 m, N 41.369101 E 23.209443, 08.04.2010, leg. R. Bekchiev (NMNHS). 3 ♂♂: Greece, Sterea Elada, Bez. Fthiotida, westl. Timfristos, 1300 - 1400 m, 30.5.1992, leg. V. Brachat (PCVB); 3 spec.: Greece, Ipiros ,, Bez. Ioanina, n / w Metsovo ca 1400 m u. Steinen, 26.8.98, leg. Brachat (PCPH).	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95FDF6D2DCAFEAFFDEC0923.taxon	description	Redescription: Body slightly shiny, reddish-brown, densely pubescent, covered with long golden setae; legs, antennae and maxillary palpi slightly lighter, length: 2.35 – 2.64 mm; maximum width of elytra 0.68 – 0.70 mm. Head about 1.15 times as wide as long, eyes completely atrophied or usually composed from four to five ommatidia located around robust ocular spine; clypeus large, round; frons with large, deep, triangular excavation that is slightly prolonged anteriorly, forming angle at apex; vertex elevated, forming large hump with one well-defined, long medial carina remote from margin of frontal excavation and extending two-thirds of head length; vertexal fove- ae separated, distant from lateral margin of head; surface between carinae almost glabrous; antennae long 1.10 – 1.15 mm, scape cylindrical, 1.25 times as long as pedicel twice as long as wide, antennomeres III – VII elongate, (III 2.2 times as long as wide, IV twice, V 2.4, VI twice and VII 1.5 times as long as wide), VIII transverse, IX trapezoidal, 1.5 times as long as wide, X trapezoidal, 1.25 times as wide as long, terminal antennomere triangular, about 1.7 times as long as wide. Pronotum slightly, 1.15 times as long as wide and as long as the head, with deep longitudinal excavation in the middle; lateral carinae long and prominent, with large triangular dent in the basal part, median antebasal and lateral foveae well-defined. Elytra simple, wider than long, at sides round, widest in middle. Abdomen slightly narrower than elytra, first visible tergite (IV) large, distance between lateral carina and median carina 0.18 mm; distance between median carinae 0.16 mm. Legs long and slender, simple, metatrochanters with one small medial ventral spine. Aedeagus (Fig. 4 a) 0.36 - 0.37 mm long, sometimes (specimens from Belasitsa Mts., Bulgaria) the apical lobe is sharp, and slightly curved to the left (Fig. 4 b).	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95FDF6D2DCAFEAFFDEC0923.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Greece, Bulgaria.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95FDF622DCAF9BAFD3A0B85.taxon	description	Figs 1 a, b, 3 c, 5	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95FDF622DCAF9BAFD3A0B85.taxon	materials_examined	Type material studied: Protamaurops macrophthalmus beieri: Holotype, ♂: Nisista, Xerovuni, Erip., 700 - 800 m, 19. V. – 6. VI. 33, Beier (NHMW). Other material: 1 ♂: Alban. Mer. Tomor: Tomor, Mai, 1931, leg. Winkler (NHMW); 1 ♂: Albania, Exped. Kula Ljums, 18 - 28. V. 1981; Albania, Voskopoje, N 40.65029 E 20.58303, 16.06.2013, leg. R. Bekchiev (NMNHS); 1 ♂: North Macedonia, Sar Mt., Carevelivade, 22.06.1972, leg. Karaman; 1 ♂: Greece, Make- donia, 10 km S. Florina, NE Drosopigi, N. exp. Eichenwald, N 40 ◦ 41 ꞌ E 21 ◦ 28 ꞌ, 23. IV. 2000, leg. Wunderle (MHNG); 2 ♂♂: 1 ♂: Greece, Ipiros, Bez. Ioanina, Umg. Metsovo, 1400 - 1500 m, 25 - 27.5.87, leg. Brachat; 3 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀: Greece, Ipiros, Bez. Ioanina, n / w Metsovo ca. 1400 m, u. Steinen, 26.5.1998, leg. Brachat (NMNHS, PCVB); 1 ♂: Greece n., above Metsovo, deciduous forest, 1400 m, leaf litter sifting, 39.776595 N, 21.170988 E, 16. VI. 2017, M. Kocian lgt. (PCPH)	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95FDF622DCAF9BAFD3A0B85.taxon	description	Redescription: Body (Fig. 1 a) slightly shiny, reddish-brown, densely pubescent, covered with long golden setae; legs, antennae and maxillary palpi slightly lighter, length: 2.30 – 2.45 mm; maximum width of elytra 0.68 – 0.70 mm. Head slightly, 1.05 times wider than long, eyes usually composed from 20 - 30 (Fig 1 a) or about five (Fig. 1 b) ommatidia located around small ocular spine; clypeus large, round; frons with large, deep, rectangular excavation that is slightly prolonged anteriorly, forming angle at apex; vertex elevated, forming relatively flat hump with one well-defined long medial carina remote from margin of frontal excavation and extending two-thirds of head length (Fig. 1 b); vertexal pits separated, distant from lateral margin of head; surface between carinae almost glabrous; antennae long 1.08 – 1.10 mm, scape as long as wide, pedicel about 1.5 times as long as wide, antennomeres III – VII elongate (III 1.65 times, IV-VII 1.35 times as long as wide), VIII transverse, IX trapezoidal, 1.25 times as wide as long, antennomere X trapezoidal, 1.1 times as wide as long, terminal antennomere triangular, 1.65 times as long as wide. Pronotum about 1.25 times as long as wide, longer than head, with flat longitudinal excavation in middle; lateral carinae long and weekly prominent, with small triangular dent in basal part, median antebasal and lateral foveae well-defined. Elytra simple, wider than long, at sides round, widest in middle. Abdomen slightly narrower than elytra, first visible tergite (IV) large, distance between lateral carina and median carina 0.20 mm; distance between median carinae 0.20 mm. Legs long and slender, simple, metatrochanters with one small medium, ventral spine. Aedeagus (Fig. 3 c) 0.38 - 0.39 mm long. Synonymic note: Protamaurops macrophthalmus beieri from Greece was described as a subspecies of P. macrophthalmus from Albania in the same paper (Müller, 1944) based mainly on the geographical separation from the nominal species. Based on the examined material there is no significant difference between these two subspecies and therefore we place place here P. macrophthalmus beieri as a synonym of P. macrophthalmus.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A95FDF622DCAF9BAFD3A0B85.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Albania, Greece, North Macedonia.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A950DF622DCAFB17FDF50819.taxon	description	Fig. 5	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A950DF622DCAFB17FDF50819.taxon	description	Note: In the diagnosis given by Nonveiller & Pavićević, 2008, they are some discrepancies with the original decription (Karaman, 1958) concerning to the foveation of the base of elytra. Karaman (1958) stated that two basal elytral foveae were present, while there is only single basal fovea on each elytron mentioned by Nonveiller & Pavićević (2008), this is a unique case for the genus. Unfortunately, the type is probably lost, and we cannot give more precise description of the species. Apparently the team of Prof. Guido Nonveiller was the last who examined the holotype of this species (Nonveiller et al., 2000) which should be deposited in the collection of Zora Karaman in University « Ss. Cyril and Methodius », Skoplje. The collection was examined by the first author but holotype was not found.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A950DF622DCAFB17FDF50819.taxon	distribution	Distribution: North Macedonia.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A951DF632DCAFF78FE020ECB.taxon	description	Fig. 5	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A951DF632DCAFF78FE020ECB.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Kosovo	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A951DF602DCAFDDDFDF60D75.taxon	description	Fig. 3 d, 5	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A951DF602DCAFDDDFDF60D75.taxon	materials_examined	Type material studied: Protamaurops winneguthi: Lectotype, here designated, ♂: Macedonia, Bistra pl., VII. 1937, leg. Dr. Fodor. Paralectotype: 1 ♀: Macedonia, Bistra plan., leg. Fodor (HNHM). Other material: 1 ♂: Macedonia, Perister, 19.05.1973, leg. A. Malika (MHNG).	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A951DF602DCAFDDDFDF60D75.taxon	description	Redescription: Body slightly shiny, reddish-brown, densely pubescent, covered with long golden setae; legs, antennae and maxillary palpi slightly lighter, length: 2.38 mm; maximum width of elytra 0.78 mm. Head 1.15 as wide as long, eyes composed from 15 - 20 ommatidia located around small ocular spine; clypeus large, round; frons with large, deep, triangular excavation that is slightly prolonged anteriorly, forming angle at apex; vertex elevated, forming large hump with one well-defined, long medial carina remote from margin of frontal excavation and extending two-thirds of head length; vertexal pits separated, distant from lateral margin of head; surface between carinae almost glabrous; antennae 1.06 mm long, scape as long wide, pedicel twice as long as wide, antennomere III 1.25 times as long as wide, IV as long as wide, V 1.25 times as long as wide, VI-VIII as long as wide, IX trapezoidal, 1.25 times as long as wide, antennomere X trapezoidal, 1.2 times as wide as long, terminal antennomere triangular, about 1.43 times as long as wide. Pronotum about 1.15 times as long as wide, longer than head, with shallow longitudinal excavation in the middle; lateral carinae long and weekly prominent, with small triangular dent in basal part, median antebasal and lateral foveae well-defined. Elytra simple, wider than long, at sides round, widest in middle. Abdomen slightly narrower than elytra, first visible tergite (IV) large, distance between lateral carina and median carina 0.20 mm; distance between median carinae 0.20 mm. Legs long and slender, simple, metatrochanters with one small medium, ventral spine. Aedeagus (Fig. 3 d) 0.39 mm long.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A951DF602DCAFDDDFDF60D75.taxon	distribution	Distribution: North Macedonia.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A952DF602DCAFD41FE390B28.taxon	materials_examined	Type material studied: Holotype, 1 ♀: Montenegro, Niksic [Nikšić], VII. 937, leg. Dr. J. Fodor (HNHM). Note: On the base of the study of the holotype, this species presents head with small and thin median carina, pronotum with small and thin lateral carinae and elytrae with completely atrophied basal fovea, all these characters place it to the genus Paramaurops.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
03DB87D4A952DF602DCAFD41FE390B28.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Montenegro.	en	Bekchiev, Rostislav, Hlaváč, Peter (2020): Endogean and Cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XX. Notes on the genus Protamaurops J. Müller, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with the description of a new species from Bulgaria. Zootaxa 4779 (3): 367-378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.5
