Revision of the genus Stenichnaphes Franz in New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) Author Jałoszyński, Paweł text Zootaxa 2015 3915 2 250 262 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.2.4 168815c7-c27f-407a-b1e3-abf10e6ed002 1175-5326 239835 C73C82EC-861F-40C9-B1C7-06F3279FF879 Genus Scydmaenilla King Scydmaenilla King, 1864 : 93 . Type species: Scydmaenilla pusilla King, 1864 (monotypy). Reduced to subgenus of Stenichnus by Franz (1975) , reinstated by Jałoszyński (2013b) . Scydmaenilla comprises Cyrtoscydmini with the following combination of characters: eyes located posteriorly; occipital constriction nearly as broad as vertex; frontoclypeal groove absent; mandible with subapical tooth; submentum with lateral sutures; hypostomal ridges present and complete; posterior tentorial pits hidden in groove between submentum and gular plate; antennae with variously distinct 3-segmented club; pronotum with one pair of lateral antebasal pits connected by transverse groove, with variously distinct lateral marginal carinae visible in posterior half; prosternum with narrow basisternal part; procoxal cavities separated in middle by fine carina; hypomeral ridges absent; mesoventrite with asetose impressions (= procoxal rests) separated in middle; mesoventral intercoxal process carinate, moderately projecting ventrally, with distinct posterior tip separated from metaventrite; metaventrite with anterior metaventral process, with short and broad metaventral intercoxal process bearing median notch; and aedeagus with free parameres. This set of characters, so far known only in Australian species, was found in Stenichnaphes newtoni from New Zealand . The exception is the antenna rather gradually thickened and not with a distinct club, but already in Scydmaenilla ( Scydmaenillunia ) the club is indistinctly delimited and this character can be excluded from the diagnosis of Scydmaenilla . Stenichnaphes newtoni is here transferred to Scydmaenilla , but several differences in relation to previously known subgenera justify its separate placement in a new subgenus.