Oxytelus varipennis explained

Oxytelus varipennis is a species of rove beetle widely spread in Asia and Europe. It is found in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Indonesia, Pakistan,^[1] India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Egypt.^[2] ^[3] ^[4]

Description

Male is about 4.6 mm and female is 3.7 mm in length. Body is dark brown to pitchy. Head and pronotum are darker brown. Elytra testaceous and legs are brownish. In male, head is sub-pentagonal. Clypeus sub-quadrangular. Mandibles are stout and lightly curved. Epistomal suture with broadly incurved lateral portions. Eyes are with coarse facets. Mandible is slender and slightly curved. Pronotum transverse. Elytra punctate and strigose. Abdomen coriaceous and pubescent. Female is similar to male but slightly smaller with much slender and pointy apex in mandible. Spermatheca C-shaped.

The Egyptian population is assigned as a subspecies: O. v. pharaonum.

Notes and References

Web site: Nasir . Shabab . Akram . Waseem . Zahid . Faisal Maqbool . Ahmed . Farooq . Hussain . Syed Makhdoom . Nasir . Iram . January 2015 . Effect of Crop Type and Production Systems (Conventional and Organic Agriculture) on the Density of Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae: Coleoptera) in the Punjab, Pakistan . 2021-07-06 . Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society . 1–9 . 10.2317/JKES1304.09.1.
Web site: Lü . Liang . Zhou . Hong-Zhang . 2012-12-07 . Taxonomy of the genus Oxytelus Gravenhorst (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) from China . 2021-07-06 . Zootaxa . 1 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3576.1.1.
Web site: Lü . Liang . Zhou . Hong-Zhang . 2015-07-30 . Revision of the genus Oxytelus Gravenhorst (Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) in Southeast Asia . 2021-07-06 . Zootaxa . 1 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3992.1.1.
Web site: Biodiversity of Staphylinids in cropped area of the Punjab (Pakistan) . 2021-07-05 . Pak. J. Agri. Sci., Vol. 48(2), 125-128.