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
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10.1649/072.068.0mo4.1
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Sagola jeongnamae
Park and Carlton
,
new species
(
Figs. 68x
,
69x
,
70x
,
74
)
Type Material.
Holotype
.
NEW ZEALAND
:
Marlborough
Sounds
:
1♂
(
LUNZ
), aedeagus dissected and mounted in balsam on a clear plastic card, “
NEW ZEALAND
, SD Stephens Island Keepers Bush
18-20.ii.1994
J.W.M. Marris
”, “
pitfall trap
in
Melicytus
,
Myoporum
,
Rhopalostylis
forest”, “
HOLOTYPE
Sagola jeongnamae
Park and Carlton 2013
”
.
Paratypes
(
n
=
10:
5 males
;
5 females
).
NEW ZEALAND
:
Marlborough
Sounds
:
5♂♂
4♀♀
(
LUNZ
), same data as holotype
;
1♀
(
LUNZ
),
Middle Trio Island
,
15 II 1995
,
J.W.M. Marris
,
LUNZ 95
/6 litter ex
Melicytus
/ broadleaf forest
.
Etymology.
This species is named for one of the enthusiastic supporters of this study, JeongNam Lee. She is one of the first author’ s colleagues and assisted with molecular components of the phylogenetic analysis.
Diagnosis.
This species can be distinguished from the other species of the
insignis
speciesgroup by the following combination of characters: body length
2.4–2.7 mm
; temporal lobe of male head distinctly projecting, exceeding eye, with C-shaped ventral surface; ventral surface of male head with transverse process behind mouthparts and round depression bearing three patches of dense setae; elytra subquadrate; shape of antennomeres and genitalia unique to species; only known from
Marlborough
Sounds.
Description.
Length
2.4–2.7 mm
. Body brown, antennae, legs, maxillary palpi, and elytra paler (
Fig. 68x
).
Head:
Male head triangular, widest across temples (
Fig. 69x
). Female head bluntly triangular, widest across eyes. Antennomere 1 approximately 1.5 times longer than wide, 2–3 subquadrate. 4–6 longer than wide, 7–10 subquadrate. Frontal sulcus deep, reaching midpoint of eye. Anterior frontal fovea round and partially covered by frontal rostrum, posterior frontal fovea oval. Eye large and prominent, approximately onethird length of temple. Temporal lobe of male head distinctly projecting, exceeding eye, with C-shaped ventral surface (
Fig. 69x
). Ventral surface of male head with transverse process behind mouthparts and round depression bearing 3 patches of dense setae (
Fig. 69x
).
Thorax:
Prosternum as long as wide, widest at one-third length. Elytra subquadrate (
Fig. 68x
). Meso- and metathorax trapezoidal, as long as wide.
Abdomen:
Male tergite IV without patch of microtrichia.
Aedeagus:
Median lobe of genitalia broad, with bluntly triangular apical lobe (
Fig. 70x
). Phallobase of median lobe symmetrical and rounded (
Fig. 70x
). Parameres symmetrical and slender, with setae at apex and midpoint (
Fig. 70x
).
Distribution.
Marlborough
Sounds (
Fig. 74
: white squares).
Habitat.
Specimens of this species were collected using pitfall traps in forsts of
Melicytus
J. R. Forst. & G. Forst. (Violaceae)
,
Myoporum
Sol. ex G. Forst. (Scrophulariaceae)
, and
Rhopalostylis
Klotzsch ex Baill. (Euphorbiaceae)
; one was taken by sifting leaf litter in
Melicytus
/broadleaf forests.