The genus Oedichirus in New Caledonia (Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Pinophilini)
Author
Rougemont, Guillaume de
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2018
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10.5281/zenodo.4004257
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Oedichirus mimopilosus
nov.sp.
(Figs 27)
Material studied:
♂
Holotype
: NEW CALEDONIA 11427,
21º37’Sx
165º49’E
,
Col d’Amieu
, west slope,
25 Nv 2003
,
G Monteith
, Pyrethrum, trees & logs ♀ HOLOTYPE
Oedichirus mimopilosus Des. 2017
G. de Rougemont
[
MNHN
]
;
1♂
&
1♀
paratypes
: [Ibid.] ♀ PARATYPE
Oedichirus mimopilosus Des. 2017
G. de Rougemont
[
QM
and
CRO
]
.
Additional material:
2♀♀
: NEW CALEDONIA 12247,
22º09’Sx
166º41’E
,
320 m
,
Houp Geant
,
6 May 2005
,
GB Monteith
,
Pyrethrum ♀
Oedichirus mimopilosus
n. sp.
♂ Det. 2017
G. de Rougemont
[
QM
and
CRO
];
1♀
:
Monts Koghis
bei
Noumea
, Neu-Kaledonien, leg.
H. Franz
IX.1970
♀
Oedichirus sedilloti Fauv. H. Coiffait
det. 1973 ♀
Oedichirus mimopilosus Rgmt.
det. 2017
G. de Rougemont
[
MNHN
].
Description: length:
6-7 mm
; length of fore-body: 2.6; length of head: 0.8; breadth of head: 0.9; length of antennae: 1.9; length of pronotum: 1.1; breadth of pronotum; 1.1; length of elytron: 1; breadth of elytra: 1.2. Body piceous or dark brown, palpi, antennae and legs entirely testaceous. Upper surfaces devoid of microsculpture except on keels and grooves of abdominal tergites. Pubescence short, dense, erect on entire body. Habitus: Fig. 27h.
Male: sternite VIII: Fig. 27s8, the apical emargination larger and deeper than in
O. pilosus
; aedoeagus: Fig. 27arl, the process of the ventral blade of the aedoeagus of characteristic securiform shape.
Female: sternite IX: Fig. 27vp.
Apart from the averagely slightly greater size of specimens this species is indistinguishable externally from
O. pilosus
nov.sp.
, but the sexual characters are quite different.