Bryaxis viertli Reitter, 1882

Krivosheyev, R. E., 2018, The New Records Of The Short-Winged Mold Beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) From The Dnistrovskiy Canyon National Park, Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 9 (4), pp. 1-4 : 2

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scientific name	Bryaxis viertli Reitter, 1882
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Bryaxis viertli Reitter, 1882 View in CoL (Figs 3–4)

Reitter, 1882: 542; Winkler, 1925: 460; Löbl, 2004: 311.

Material examined. Ukraine, Ternopil Region, deciduous forest near Hlushka , in litter, 23.05.3018, 48.7361°N, 25.6511°E, 3 ♂, 3 ♀ GoogleMaps ; deciduous forest near Nyrkiv , in litter, 24.05.3018, 48.8221°N, 25.5771°E, 3 ♂, 3 ♀ GoogleMaps ; Zalishchiky, slope of Dniester river , in moss, 26.05.2018, 48.6322°N, 25.6379°E, 9 ♂, 4 ♀ ( Krivosheyev leg.) ( SIZK) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro ( Löbl, 2004); Ukraine ( first record).

Notes. In its habitus, this species is similar with B. curtisii by the body size, dark-brown colouring and poor disordered elytra punctation. The male scapus is strongly thickened and carries flat outgrowth on the last third of its inner side, and the pedicel has a small keel on its inner margin. The specimens from Hlushka show some