Chandlerea and Nunnea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), two new genera from New Zealand with descriptions of three new species
Author
Park, Jong-Seok
Author
Carlton, Christopher E.
text
Florida Entomologist
2015
2015-06-30
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1653/024.098.0231
journal article
10.1653/024.098.0231
1938-5102
12769582
E359168A-C253-4032-944B-DC97BF60C322
Chandlerea
Park & Carlton
gen. nov.
h t t p: / / z o o b a n k. o r g /
8 C 3 4 C 8 9 7 - 2 B 5 7 - 4 6 5 D - 9 C B 3 - 280AA3F71AD7
Louisiana State
Arthropod Museum, Department of Entomology, LSB 404,
Louisiana State
University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
*Corresponding author; E-mail: jpark16@tigers.lsu.edu
Type
species:
Chandlerea donaldi
sp. nov.
, here designated (monotypy)
DIAGNOSIS
The members of
Chandlerea
may be separated from other faronite genera by the following combination of characters: small, body length
1.8 mm
(
Fig. 1
); male antennomere 7 enlarged and subquadrate with round depression (
Fig. 1
); frontal rostrum prominent and frontal sulcus linear, reaching apex of rostrum (
Fig. 4
); anterior and posterior frontal foveae present, anterior frontal fovea covered by rostrum (
Fig. 4
); prosternum with median and lateral procoxal foveae (
Fig. 6
); mesoventrite with promesocoxal foveae (
Fig. 8
); abdominal segment VI enlarged, at least twice longer than VII (
Fig. 10
); only known from northern South Island (
Fig. 16
: black squares).
DISTRIBUTION
New Zealand
.
ETYMOLOGY
This genus is named for a world-renown beetle specialist and one of the most influential specialists of
Pselaphinae
during modern time, Donald S. Chandler.
REMARKS
Females are unknown.