A revision of the Chilean Brachyglutini - Part 4. Revision of Achilia Reitter, 1890: A. puncticeps and A. approximans species groups, with description of seven new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
Author
Sabella, Giorgio
Author
Cuccodoro, Giulio
Author
Kurbatov, Sergey A.
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Revue suisse de Zoologie
2019
2019-03-31
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10.5281/zenodo.2619528
a0525610-166a-4a90-97cb-6cd78d98a706
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2619528
Achilia cunniceps
n. sp.
Figs 7
,
11
,
23
,
35, 37, 39
,
57
Holotype
:
MHNG
(# MHNG-ENTO-13837); 1 ♂; SOUTHERN
CHILI
:
Región Los Lagos
:
Osorno prov.
:
Puyehue National Park
,
Antillanca
road;
500-1000 m
;
18-20.XII.1984
;
S. & J. Peck
; car netting.
Paratypes
(3):
MHNG
(# MHNG-ENTO-13838 & 13839); 2 ♂; SOUTHERN
CHILI
:
Región Los Lagos
:
Osorno prov.
: same data as holotype
. –
Chiloé prov.:
FMNH
(FMHD #
2002-77
); 1 ♂; road to Miraflores, about
0.6 km
W road 5;
42° 46.74’S
73° 47.70’W
;
130 m
;
12.XII.2002
; A. Newton & M. Thayer 1063; secondary
Valdivian forest
with few conifers, Berlese, leaf & log litter
.
Description:
Body
1.35-1.40 mm
long, entirely dark with reddish brown elytra, antennae, palpi, and legs. Head with eyes moderately protruding, about long as convex temples. Pronotum slightly wider than head; median antebasal fovea smaller than lateral ones. First abdominal tergite with basal striae extending to about one-third of paratergal length, and separated at base by about one-third of tergal width.
Male
: Head as in
Figs 35, 37, 39
, with anterior part flattened; vertexal sulcus indistinct; posterior part conspicuously raised, strongly convex in lateral view (
Fig. 37
), this hump anteriorly flattened, densely punctate, pubescent, and sulcate medially. Antennae (
Fig. 11
) with scape longer than wide and pedicel only slightly longer than wide; antennomeres III-IV and VII slightly wider than long; antennomeres V-VI longer than wide, antennomere VIII strongly transverse with mesal margin protruding at middle; antennomeres IX and X strongly transverse with protruding mesal margins; antennomere XI very elongate and distinctly longer than VI-X combined, its surfaces with tubercles. Metaventrite raised at middle, this area distally pubescent and densely punctate, divided by very wide median sulcus. Legs with trochanters very elongate; surface of mesotrochanters bearing numerous long bristles; ventral margin of mesotrochanters projecting posteriorly in a spine (
Fig. 23
); profemora and mesofemora slightly thickened; protibiae with short subapical spur on medial margin, distal half slightly sinuate and bearing long and thick bristles; distal half of metatibiae slightly sinuate. Abdominal tergites and ventrites unmodified. Aedeagus (
Fig. 7
, dorsal longitudinal struts not shown)
0.26- 0.27 mm
long; medial sclerites with 5-6 apical spines, associated on each side with three pointed sclerites, the first with two tips.
Female
: Unknown.
Collecting data:
Collected in December, at elevations ranging from
130 to 1000 m
, by car netting, and by sifting in Valdivian rainforests.
Distribution:
Achilia cunniceps
n. sp.
is known from Southern
Chile
(
Fig. 57
: blue triangles) only in
Región Los Lagos
(Chiloé and Osorno provinces).
Comments:
Achilia cunniceps
n. sp.
is easily distinguished from the other members of the genus by the very peculiar morphology of the male head (
Figs 35, 37, 39
), features of the antennae (
Fig. 11
), and the copulatory pieces of the aedeagus (
Fig. 7
).