A revision of the New Zealand species of the genus Sagola Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Faronitae)
Author
Park, J. - S.
Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, Department of Entomology, LSB 404 Louisiana State University Agric
Author
Carlton, C. E.
Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, Department of Entomology, LSB 404 Louisiana State University Agric
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2014
mo 13
2014-12-01
68
1
156
journal article
3079
10.1649/072.068.0mo4.1
62322993-ca80-4b6c-ac95-861cbb236abd
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6.
parva
species-group
(2 species)
Diagnosis.
The members of
parva
group can be distinguished from other
Sagola
groups by the following combination of characters: body length
2.3–3.8 mm
; antennomere 1 approximately 2.5 times longer than wide with dull surface, male antennomeres 5–6 enlarged (
Fig. 21e
); gular region of male head with round depression (
Fig.
21g
); hind wings well-developed; fore-femur with semicircular depression; abdominal tergites IV–VI with discal carinae; present on North Island, not known from South Island (
Fig. 22
).
KEY TO SPECIES OF THE
PARVA
SPECIES- GROUP
The key is based on genitalia because most specimens are indistinguishable based on external morphology.
1. Head bluntly triangular with large eyes (
Fig. 21a, f
); antennomeres 5–6 enlarged, without tubercles.................
S. parva
Sharp
1′. Head transverse with small eyes (
Fig. 21b
); antennomeres 4–6 enlarged, with distinctive tubercles ........................
S. denticollis
Broun