Revision of subgenera of Stenichnus Thomson, with review of Australo-Pacific species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
Author
Jałoszyński, Paweł
text
Zootaxa
2013
3630
1
39
79
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3630.1.2
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1175-5326
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Scydmaenilla
(
Scydmaenilla
)
sp.
(
Figs. 84–92
)
Material studied
. Ƥ: three labels (
Fig. 88
): "
Australia
/
1912-22
" [white, printed, first line underlined in pink], "Sydney / Lea" [white, printed], "
Scydmaenilla
/
pusilla King
/ A.M.Lea det." [white, printed and handwritten in black] (NHM).
Remarks
. This is a species erroneously identified as
S. pusilla
by Lea, and later Franz's (1975) redescription was also based on the same misidentified specimen. Lea (1910) mentioned that
S. pusilla
was collected in nests of an ant
Pachycondyla lutea
(Mayr)
(as
Ponera
) and certainly this information refers to the misidentified
Scydmaenilla
sp. Although this is a remarkably slender and flattened
Scydmaenilla
s. str.
clearly different from all other congeners, I refrain from a formal description of a new species until a male has been found.