The Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands. II. Revision of the tribe Tyrini Reitter, 1882
Author
Č, Peter Hlavá
text
Zootaxa
2009
2010
46
56
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.185787
781c18b6-05af-4a38-ae6b-a9886358f355
1175-5326
185787
Caledonogonus loebli
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 5
,
8,12
,
15, 16
)
Type
material
(
38 specimens
).
Holotype
:
NEW
CALEDONIA
:
ɗ,
New Caledonia
, Col des Roussettes, ravine, forest litter,
25.ix.1998
, I. Löbl / [red label]
HOLOTYPE
Caledonogonus loebli
sp. nov.
P. Hl a vá č det. 2007, (
MHNG
).
Paratypes
:
NEW
CALEDONIA
:
10ɗɗ, 7ΨΨ, the same locality as
holotype
; 7ɗɗ, 10ΨΨ,
3 specimens
: FM (HD) 78-256,
NEW
CALEDONIA
: Col de Rousettes nr. Bourail,
500 m
,
VIII-7-1978
, Leg.
S&J Peck, Berlese rainforest litter. All
paratypes
bear the following red label:
PARATYPE
Caledonogonus loebli
sp. nov.
, P. Hlaváč det., 2007 (6ɗɗ, 4ΨΨ,
1 specimen
:
MHNG
, 5ɗɗ, 8ΨΨ,
2 specimens
:
FMNH
, 2ɗɗ, 2ΨΨ:
QMBA
, 3ɗɗ, 3ΨΨ:
CPH
).
FIGURES 8–12.
Antenna (8) and maxillary palpus (9–12) of Tyrini. 8, 12—
Caledonogonus loebli
sp. nov.
; 9—
Anagonus fracticornis
Fauvel
; 10—
A. breviscapus
sp. nov.
; 11—
A. spinipalpis
sp. nov.
Scale bar 0.2 mm.
Description.
Body length
1.4–1.6 mm
, shining, dark reddish-brown, with long golden setae except on disc of pronotum; elytra and first visible abdominal tergite (tergite IV), legs, maxillary palpi and apical antennomeres lighter, yellowish brown.
Head about as long as wide and slightly shorter than pronotum, pronotum widest in apical third; antenna (
Fig. 8
) short and stout, scape about five times as long as pedicel, slightly shorter than funicule, antennomeres III–VI quadrate, VII–VIII transverse, three-segmented antennal club very clearly defined, antennomeres IX and X about equal in size, X about 1.5 times as wide as long, terminal antennomere pointed apically, about 1.7 times as long as wide.
Legs shorter, protrochanter with two minuscule spines, lateral one longer.
Aedeagus as in
Figs. 15, 16
.
Remarks.
Anagonus loebli
is readily distinguished from its congener by smooth disc of pronotum and shorter terminal antennomere.
Biology.
All specimens collected by Ivan Löbl were sifted from leaf litter in a humid ravine in tropical forest and extracted by Winkler-Mocsarski eclectors (Löbl, personal communication).
Etymology.
The species is named after my friend Ivan Löbl (Geneva) who collected the
holotype
and some of the
paratypes
.