Xantholinini from the Australian and Oriental Regions. New genus, new species and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). 208 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae
Author
Bordoni, Arnaldo
text
Zootaxa
2010
2538
38
46
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.196679
a9dcc81b-fe7b-4656-8153-2c6ffa08cbee
1175-5326
196679
Eachamia bismarckiana
n. sp.
T
ype material.
Holotype
3:
Bismarck Island:
Mussau Talumalans, Noona Dan. Exp. 61–62, leg.?
10.II.1962
(ZMUC);
paratypes
: same data, 1 Ƥ (ZMUC), 1 Ƥ (cB); Manus Lorengan, Noona Dan. Exp. 51.62, leg.?
19.VII.1962
, 1 Ƥ (cB).
Description
. Body brown reddish, shiny,
11 mm
long; length from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra:
5 mm
. Similar to
Eachamia corusca
Bordoni, 2005
from Queensland, but wider, with bigger head, wider and protruding eyes. Head with a big puncture near the internal margin of eyes; two punctures in parallel laterally, under the eyes; some punctures at the inferior margin of head; all the punctures with long and erect setae. Pronotum wider than that of
E
.
corusca
and robust, covered by very fine micro punctures, with oblique anterior margins and rounded anterior corners, slightly sinuate sides; elytra bigger, wider and longer, sub rectangular, with only 3 series of deep and scattered punctures, with humeri strictly rounded and sub parallel sides.
Tergite and sternite of male genital segment as in figs. 13–14. Aedeaagus (fig. 15) moderately large (
1.6 mm
long), with asymmetrical robust parameres; internal sac large, with fine scales.
Distribution
. Known from the
type
locality on the Bismarck Island.
Etymology
. The specific epithet is based on the
type
locality.
Notes
. This is the first
Eachamia
species known from the Bismarck Island.