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
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10.5281/zenodo.5328923
82c0e92c-2ca4-474f-a228-259ad1adb559
0374-1036
5328923
Vanuatiella tishechkini
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 4
,
9, 10
)
Type material
(1 J
2 ♀♀
).
HOLOTYPE
: J,
VANUATU
: ESPIRITU SANTO I.:
Cumberland Peninsula, Saratsi Range at
14.9673°S
166.6787°E
.
1200m
. Flight intercept FL 12B-7. 20-21.Nov 2006. A. K. Tishechkin. AT748 (
MNHN
).
PARATYPES
:
2 ♀♀
, the same data as
holotype
(
MHNG
,
PHKS
).
Description.
Body (
Fig. 4
)
1.37–1.47 mm
long. Head elongate, about 1.3–1.4 times as long as wide. Terminal antennomere as long as head, median opening of terminal antennomere located just before middle. Pronotum about 1.3 times as wide as long, and about 1.22–1.25 times shorter than head. Elytra wide, 1.3–1.4 times as wide as long at suture, sutural striae well-defined, parallel to suture along whole length of suture. Mesotibiae with minuscule, sharp spine located in apical fourth. Aedeagus as in
Figs. 9–10
,
0.23 mm
long.
Sexual dimorphism.
Mesotibiae of female simple, lacking spines in apical fourth.
Etymology.
This new species is named in honour of Alexey Tishechkin, a well-known specialist on
Histeridae
and the collector of the
type
series.
Biology.
Host ant unknown. All
four specimens
were collected by flight intercept trap, together with myrmecophilous species of the
Histeridae
: Chlamydopsinae (
TISHECHKIN 2009
).
Distribution.
Vanuatu
: Espiritu Santo Island.