Review of Cephennomicrus and Pomphopsilla of the Seychelles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
Author
Jałoszyński, Paweł
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-03-20
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4568.2.10
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Pomphopsilla
Jałoszyński
Pomphopsilla
Jałoszyński, 2011: 480
.
Type
species:
Pomphopsilla luhya
Jałoszyński, 2011
(orig. des.).
Pomphopsilla
is similar to
Cephennomicrus
and in dorsal view dry-mounted specimens cannot be unambiguously placed in genus, unless unique, internal prothoracic 'vesicles' or 'cavities' are visible as a pair of translucent areas near posterior pronotal corners. These enigmatic structures can be easily seen in transparent mounts or even in specimens stored in ethanol, or in water, after relaxing dry-mounted beetles.
Cephennomicrus
lacks the prothoracic 'cavities'. Moreover, in
Pomphopsilla
the prosternal process is long and curved posteroventrad and so strongly elevated that it extends ventrally beyond procoxae and is visible in the lateral view (short, subtriangular and weakly elevated in
Cephennomicrus
). Six species are known, two found in
Kenya
and four in DC
Congo
. Diagnostic characters were illustrated and all species treated by
Jałoszyński (2011a
, 2016).
One of species described by
Scott (1922)
as
Neseuthia
, and later listed as
Cephennomicrus
(Jałoszyński 2008)
, turned out to belong in
Pomphopsilla
.