Review and clinal variation of New Zealand Anabaxis Raffray (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Goniaceritae)
Author
Shen, Jia-Wei
Author
Leschen, Richard A. B.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-02-22
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.5
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Key to male
Anabaxis
Only males can be readily identified to species. The New Zealand species are indicated by an asterisk (*).
1 Metatibia with well-developed spine (
Fig. 7C
).....................................................
A. vagus
Oke
- Metatibia without spine................................................................................ 2
2 Body length more than
2.2 mm
; tergite IV with deep basal impression between mediobasal fo- veae (
Fig. 7B
)...........................................................................................
A. quinquefoveolata
Raffray
- Body length less than 2.0 mm, tergite IV with shallow basal impression between mediobasal f- oveae.................. 3
3 Discal carinae shorter than half length of tergite IV........................................................... 4
- Discal carinae as long as or longer than half length of tergite IV................................................ 5
4 Head with frontal fovea (
Fig. 7E
).........................................................
A. foveolata
* Broun
- Head without frontal fovea (
Fig. 7D
)..........................................................
A. lunatica
King
5 Elytra much wider than long (
Fig. 6D
)...................................................
A. inusitata
Blackburn
- Elytra slightly wider than long.......................................................................... 6
6 Mesotibia with large spear-shape subapical spine (
Fig. 4D
).........................................
A. brevis
* Oke
- Mesotibia with small apical spine........................................................................ 7
7 Body small and weakly convex in lateral view, length no longer than
1.4 mm
(
Fig. 6C
).................
A. electrica
King
- Body larger and more convex in lateral view, length longer than
1.7 mm
(
Fig. 3A
)................
A. chathamensis
*
sp. n.