The genus Oedichirus in New Caledonia (Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Pinophilini) Author Rougemont, Guillaume de text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2018 2018-07-27 50 1 537 586 journal article 21039 10.5281/zenodo.4004257 61bdc8ed-f0e1-4c9e-a7de-71ea43cecdd9 0253-116X 4004257 Oedichirus pilosus nov.sp. (Figs 26) Material studied: ♂ Holotype : NEW CALEDONIA 11832, Foret Nord , site 2, rainfor. 2 Dec.2004 , pyrethrum, CJ Burwell & GB Monteith ♀ HOLOTYPE Oedichirus pilosus des. 2017 G. de Rougemont [ MNHN ] ; 2♀♀ paratypes : [Ibid.] ♀ PARATYPE Oedichrus pilosus des. 2017 G. de Rougemont [ QM ] ; 2♀♀ paratypes : NEW CALEDONIA 11764, 22º17’S x 166º53’E , 250m , Pic du Grand Kaori , site 1, 22-24 Nov 2004 , Monteith , Burwell , pyrethrum, rainfor. ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus pilosus des. 2017 G. de Rougemont [ CRO ] ; 1♂ paratype : NEW CALEDONIA 11197, 22º17’S x 166º54’E , 250m , Pic du Grand Kaori , 16-18Nov2002 , pyrethrum, trees, G.B. Monteith ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus pilosus des. 2017 G. de Rougemont [ QM ] ; 1♂ paratype : 11173, 22º17’Sx 166º53’E , 250m , 22-24Nov2004 , Monteith , Buwell , pyrethrum, rainfor. ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus pilosus des. 2017 G. de Rougemont [ CRO ] ; 1♂ & 6 ♀♀ paratypes : NEW CALEDONIA 11202, 22º06’s X 116º 39’E , 160m , Riv. Bleue , Kaori Geant , 19 Nov 2002 , G. Monteith , pyrethrum, trees & logs ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus pilosus des. 2017 G. de Rougemont [ QM ] ; 3♀♀ paratypes : NEW CALEDONIA 9952, 22º06’Sx 166º39’S , Riv. Bleue , Panoramic track, 28Nov2008 , GB Monteith , Pyrethrum trunks & logs ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus piloosus des. 2017 G. de Rougemont [ QM ] ; 1♀ : NEW CALEDONIA 8681, 22º15’Sx 166º49’E , 270m , Pic du Pin , east base, 21 Nov 2001 , G. Monteith , Pyrethrum , tree & logs ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus pilosus des. 2017 G. de Rougemont [ CRO ] . Additional material: 1♂ : N-Calédonie (P.-Sud),Tamissageterreau troncs morts (au sol et debout) ♀ 22º09.195 S 166º53.546 E ♀ 14.XII.2007 , Yaté , (sur les hauteurs du barrage ♀ Oedichirus pilosus n. sp. det. 2017 G. de Rougemont [ CTP ]. Description: length: 6-7 mm ; length of fore-body: 2.8; length of head: 0.7; breadth of head: 0.9; length of antenna: 1.55; length of pronotum: 1; breadth of pronotum: 0.95; length of elytron: 0.84; breadth of elytra: 1.1. Body piceous to brown; palpi, antennae and legs testaceous. Dorsal surfaces devoid of microsculpture except on anterior margins of abdominal tergites. Pubescence very dense, short, erect, somewhat longer on elytra and abdomen. Habitus: Fig. 26h Head strongly transverse; eyes about as long as temples, very protruberant; post-ocular border feeble, situated on lateral margin; puncturation coarse and very dense on vertex, the interstices much narrower than diameter of punctures, the latter umbilicate. Pronotum rather short and broad; lateral line entirely but inconspicuously bordered; puncturation coarse and very dense, the punctures as large as those of head, homogeneous but showing a trace of a mid-longitudinal line in some specimens ( type ). Elytra short and broad, transverse, the sides rounded, widest a little before middle; puncturation coarse and dense, the punctures a little larger but shallower than those of pronotum. Keels and grooves of anterior margins of abdominal tergites confused on tergite III, distinct and prominent on IV-VI; puncturation of tergites very dense, the punctures progressively finer from anterior to posterior margins of each tergite. Male: abdominal sternite VIII: Fig. 26s8; aedoagus: Fig. 26arl. Female: sternite IX: Fig. 26vp. Very similar in size, puncturation and dense erect pubescence to O. mimopilosus nov.sp. , from which it differs most evidently by its longer pronotum, the smaller emargination of the male sternite VIII and the aedoeagus.