Revision of Cephennomicrus of Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
Author
Jałoszyński, Paweł
text
Zootaxa
2018
4422
2
151
183
journal article
29149
10.11646/zootaxa.4422.2.1
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Cephennomicrus marunensis
sp. n.
(
Figs 69–73
,
123
)
Type
material.
Holotype
:
AUSTRALIA
(
WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
):
♂
, three labels: "
15.00S
125.21E
WA / "Marun"
CALM
Site / 8/4 Prince Frederiock / Harbour
Jan. 1989
/ N.McKenzie" [white, printed], "Berlesate/
ANIC
1275 / closed forest / litter" [white, printed], "
CEPHENNOMICRUS
/
marunensis
m. / P. Jałoszyński, '18 /
HOLOTYPUS
" [red, printed] (
ANIC
).
Paratypes
(2 exx.):
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
, same data as for
holotype
(
ANIC
, cPJ).
Diagnosis.
BL
0.70–0.74 mm
; body stout, EI 1.07–1.14; antennomeres III–IX each as long as broad; antennal club dimerous, sharply delimited and strongly flattened; inner pair of pronotal antebasal pits not connected; frons and vertex in males unmodified; aedeagus moderately elongate, in ventral view median lobe drop-shaped, endophallus simple, containing two lateral and one median bunches of needle-like sclerites, subapical region of dorsal wall with paired setae.
Description.
Body of male (
Fig. 69
) stout, uniformly reddish brown; setae on head, pronotum and elytra very short, dense and recumbent but discernible at magnification 40 ×. BL
0.71–0.74 mm
.
Head broadest at large, strongly convex and coarsely faceted eyes, HL
0.08 mm
, HW
0.20 mm
; vertex and frons unmodified, confluent, weakly and evenly convex; supraantennal tubercles weakly elevated. Punctures fine and inconspicuous. Antennae short, with sharply delimited dimerous and strongly flattened club, AnL
0.30–0.31 mm
, antennomeres I–II distinctly elongate, III–IX each as long as broad, X distinctly transverse, XI about as long as broad.
Pronotum subtrapezoidal, broadest near anterior fourth; PL
0.24 mm
, PW
0.33 mm
; anterior margin arcuate, posterior margin nearly straight, anterior corners broadly rounded, sides strongly rounded in anterior third and nearly straight in posterior half, posterior corners strongly obtuse-angled and blunt; base with two lateral pairs of small but distinct pits, transverse groove absent; lateral pronotal carinae indistinctly serrate. Punctures on pronotal disc fine, inconspicuous.
Elytra oval, broadest distinctly anterior to middle; EL
0.40–0.43 mm
, EW
0.35–0.38 mm
, EI 1.13–1.14; humeral calli distinct; apices separately rounded. Punctures similar to those on pronotal disc.
Legs moderately long and slender, unmodified.
FIGURES 64–73.
Cephennomicrus indistinctus
sp. n.
(64–68) and
C. marunensis
sp. n.
(69–73). Dorsal habitus (64, 69); aedeagus in ventral (65, 67, 70, 72) and lateral (66, 68, 71, 73) views.
Aedeagus (
Figs 70–73
) moderately elongate; AeL
0.15 mm
; median lobe in ventral view drop-shaped, endophallus moderately complicated, with two lateral bunches of long, needle-like sclerites flanking a median group of similar sclerites; dorsal wall with paired setae in subapical region; each paramere with two apical and one subapical setae of equal length.
Female. Externally indistinguishable from male; BL
0.70 mm
; HL
0.08 mm
, HW
0.20 mm
, AnL
0.28 mm
; PL
0.25 mm
, PW
0.33 mm
; EL
0.38 mm
, EW
0.35 mm
, EI 1.07.
Distribution
(
Fig. 123
).
Western
Australia
.
Etymology.
Locotypical, after the locality name Marun in Prince Frederick Harbour.
Remarks.
Examination of the aedeagus is necessary to identify this species; the drop-shaped median lobe, one pair of lateral bunches of needle-like sclerites flanking a median bunch of similar sclerites are unique for
C. marunensis
.