Contribution to the knowledge of Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Fiji and Vanuatu, with the catalogue of Clavigeritae of Oceania
Author
Besuchet, Claude
Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Route de Malagnou, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland
Author
Hlaváč, Peter
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, CZ- 165 21 Praha 6, Czech Republic; e-mail: phlavac @ stonline. sk
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2011
2011-12-09
51
2
517
528
journal article
4622
10.5281/zenodo.5328923
82c0e92c-2ca4-474f-a228-259ad1adb559
0374-1036
5328923
Microconilon acuticollis
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 2
,
6
)
Type material
(4 JJ
2 ♀♀
).
HOLOTYPE
: J,
FIJI
: TAVEUNI:
L. Tagimaucia track,
15 Jul
1987
, 700 m, G. Monteith & D. Cook. With Ants In
Squamellaria
sp.
Ant Plant (
MHNG
).
PARATYPES
: 3 JJ
2 ♀♀
, the same data as
holotype
(
QMBA
,
MHNG
,
PHKS
).
Description.
Body (
Fig. 2
)
2.30–2.45 mm
long. Head rectangular, about 1.5 times as long as wide. Temples with well-defined carinae going from eyes to occipital margin of head.Antennae with terminal antennomere very long,
1.08–1.16 mm
, with longer pubescence, flat through whole length but especially at apex, apex with 3–5 very long macrosetae. Pronotum about 1.65 times shorter than head and 1.6 times as wide as long. Elytra at suture less than half the maximum width of elytra, anterior border of shoulders with profound concavity. Abdomen with the composite tergite (IV–VI) 3.5 times as long as tergites VII–VIII combined. Mesotibiae with minuscule, but sharp and well-defined preapical spine. Aedeagus as in
Fig. 6
,
0.48 mm
long.
Sexual dimorphism.
Mesotibiae of female lacking preapical spines, apex rounded.
Differential diagnosis.
Similar to
M. kuscheli
sp. nov.
, but smaller, with head less evenly flattened ventrally, pronotum more transverse, antennomere III much longer and pronotum larger.
Biology.
Unknown ant whose nest was in an ant plant of the genus
Squamellaria
.
Etymology.
The species name refers to the anteriorly narrowed neck of the species.
Distribution.
Fiji
, Taveuni Island.