G. it. Ent., 13 (59): 523-534
January 2014
Due nuove Typhloreicheia Holdhaus, 1924
sintopiche sul Monte Pellegrino (Sicilia)
(Coleoptera, Carabidae, Scaritinae)
di
P. MAGRINI & A. PALADINI
Abstract - Two new Typhloreicheia Holdhaus, 1924 sympatric on Mount Pellegrino (Sicily) (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Scaritinae) - Two new Sicilian species - Typhloreicheia susannae and Typhloreicheia colacurcioi - sympatric on Mount Pellegrino (Palermo), are here described and illustrated. T. susannae is a large species, with physogastric abdomen and strong marginal denticulation of elytra; it can be compared with T. zingarensis Magrini & Baviera, 2003 only, the sole from Sicily with similar characteristics, but T. susannae can be distinguished for the little longer elytra, the absence of the third hair on parameres, the aedeagus more dilated in ventral view, and, above all, for the structure of the copulatory lamella with a bunch of larger spines differently placed. T. colacurcioi n. sp. is very small, has depressed, narrow, parallel-sided body and thin marginal denticulation of elytra at the first 3/4; it can be compared with T. bavierai Magrini, Degiovanni & Petrioli, 2010 only, the sole with similar characteristics, but T. colacurcioi can be distinguished for the less flattened body, the wider extension of the marginal denticulation of elytra, more convex temples, less constricted pronotum at base, a little shorter elytra, and the large, ensiform spines of the gonapophyses which have blunted, not sharp, tips.
