Lesteva (s.str.) championi Lohse, 1982 Lesteva championi Lohse, 1982: 203 Lesteva (s.str.) championi: Shavrin, 2012: 81, 2015a: 533 Type material examined: INDIA: Holotype of Lesteva championi Lohse, 1982, ♂ [The aedeagus, abdominal sternite VIII and tergite VIII are glued under the specimen; apical abdominal segment is lost]: ‘Holo- | type’ , ‘ Chakrata Dist. | Binal Gad 7-8000`| Dr. Cameron. | 24. V. 22.’ , ‘M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ , ‘Holotypus’ , ‘ Lesteva championi | n.sp. | holotypus [handwritten] | det.Dr.G.A.Lohse’ (BMNH). Paratypes of Lesteva championi Lohse, 1982, 3 ♂, 1 ♀: same labels as the holotype except label ‘Para- | type’ (BMNH); 200 specimens: ‘Para- | type’ , ‘KASHMIR: Gulmarg. | vi-vii.1931 | Dr. Cameron’ , ‘H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1955-147.’ , ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ , ‘ Hazara, N.W.F. Prov., [underlined by yellow] | Upper Kagan Valley. | 8,000 ft., 11.vi.1927. ’ , ‘ H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ , ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ (BMNH); 1 ♂, 2 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ , ‘Ranikhet, | Kumaon. | H.G.C.’ , ‘H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ , ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ , ‘ Monali, | Kulu, V. Punjab. | 6000ft. H.G.C. ’ , ‘ H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ , ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ , ‘ Chakrata Dist. | Sainj Khud 6500`’, ‘ M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ , ‘ Lesteva championi | n.sp. | holotypus [handwritten] | det. Dr.G.A. Lohse’ (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ , ‘ Chakrata Dist. | Korawa Khud 9100`’ , ‘Dr. Cameron. | 4. V. 22 ’ , ‘ M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ , ‘ Lesteva championi | n.sp. | holotypus [sic] [handwritten] | det. Dr.G.A. Lohse’ (BMNH); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: ‘Para- | type’ , ‘ Jibhi, Seraj. | Punjab, 6,000ft | H.G.C. v.1926 ’ , ‘ H.G. Champion Coll | B.M. 1953-156.’ , ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | PARATYPE’ (BMNH). Additional material: INDIA: 1 ♂: ‘ Kashmir Gulmarg vi-vii.1931 Dr. Cameron’, ‘ W. Steel coll. B.M. 1969- 552’, ‘ championi’, ‘ Coll. G. A. Lohse MHNG-1994’ (MHNG); 2 ♂, 2 ♀: same data (BMNH); 2 ♂, 3 ♀: ‘ Naggar, Lulu. Punjab. 5,000ft. H. G.C. ’ (BMNH); 2 ♂: ‘ Chakrata dist. | Sainj Khud | 29/5/22.6500`’ … [unreadable]’ (BMNH); 1 ♂ [labeled as the syntype of Lathrimaeum monticola Cameron, 1924; aedeagus and apical abdominal segment are glued on the same new card under the beetle, old card under new label]: ‘SYN- | TYPE’ , ‘ Theog 7600`| Simla Hills. ’ , ‘ Dr. Cameron. | IX. 1921.’ , ‘ M. Cameron | Bequest. | B. M. 1955-147.’ , ‘ Lesteva with [handwritten] | Lathrimaeum monticola [handwritten] | P.M.Hammond | det.1969 | Cam [eron]. syntypes [handwritten]’ , ‘ Lesteva | championi Lohse | Shavrin A.V. det. 2016’ (BMNH). Remarks. Lesteva championi was described by Lohse (1982) from North India. The figures of the aedeagus were provided by me recently (Shavrin 2015a). Among specimens of the type material of Lathrimaeum monticola Cameron, 1924 (now Anthobium) in BMNH, one syntype (male), labeled by P. Hammond as ‘ Lesteva [...]’ was found. I studied the aedeagus of this specimen which proved to be conspecific with L. championi. The species is widely distributed from Pakistan and Kashmir through Northern provinces of India (Uttaranchal Pradesh, Uttarakhand) to Nepal.

Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2016, New taxonomic and faunistic data on the Himalayan Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae), pp. 143-150 in Zootaxa 4205 (2) on pages 144-145, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/192909