title: A new subterranean IberianCephenniumwith unusually modified metatrochanters (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae).
abstract: Cephennium (Geodytes) gladiator sp. n. is described from north-western Spain (Galicia). This is the first known species of Cephennium (and Cephenniini) with males showing monstrously modified metatrochanters in the form of blade-like projections as long as 3/4 of femora. Similar modifications in Scydmaeninae were known previously only among Oriental and South Pacific Glandulariini. Morphological structures of the new species and its placement in the subgenus Geodytes are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wrocław, Poland.. scydmaenus@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Paweł
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jałoszyński
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Struyve
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D049628:Body Size; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000254:growth & development; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size; D013030:Spain
keywords: Coleoptera, Cephenniini, new species, Palaearctic, Spain, taxonomy