New species and records of Scaphobaeocera CSIKI from New Guinea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae)
Author
Ivan Löbl
text
Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft
2017
2017-10-15
107
33
41
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.1098156
ed95e404-6108-47c1-92e6-c285d46196ac
0340-4943
1098156
Scaphobaeocera
sp. B
Material examined
.
1 ♂
,
PAPUA
NG Morobe, Biaru Rd, Mt. Kolorong,
2200m
,
08.VI.1992
, G. CUCCODORO #19A [montane rain forest, moss on ground and vegetational debris] (
MHNG
).
Comments
. This species is characterized by its long antennae with the antennomeres VII, IX, X and XI similar in length and the antennomere VII conspicuously short, about as long as third of the antennomere VII. The species may be readily distinguished from its New Guinean congeners by the elytra and pronotum extremely finely punctate in combination with the lack of microsculpture and parasutural striae, and by the metaventrite notably darker than the dorsal side of the body. The aedeagus is strongly damaged and its diagnostic characters cannot be appropriately shown. Therefore, I renounce from establishing a new species based on this single available specimen.