A revision of the New Zealand species of the genus Sagola Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Faronitae) Author Park, J. - S. Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, Department of Entomology, LSB 404 Louisiana State University Agric Author Carlton, C. E. Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, Department of Entomology, LSB 404 Louisiana State University Agric text The Coleopterists Bulletin 2014 mo 13 2014-12-01 68 1 156 journal article 3079 10.1649/072.068.0mo4.1 62322993-ca80-4b6c-ac95-861cbb236abd 1938-4394 4907735 Genus Sagola Sharp, 1874 Sagola Sharp, 1874: 506 . Broun 1880: 134; Reitter 1882: 199 ; Brendel 1888: 302 ; Schaufuss 1888: 64 ; Raffray 1890: 84 , 1893: 2 , 1904: 492 ; Casey 1894: 434 ; Hudson 1923: 365 , 1934: 183 ; Jeannel 1961: 47 , 1967: 442; Newton 1985: 195 ; Newton and Chandler 1989: 18; Kuschel 1990: 48 ; Klimaszewski et al. 1996: 147 ; Chandler 2001: 50 ; Newton and Thayer 2005a; Nomura and Leschen 2006: 241. Fig. 2. Diagnostic characters used to distinguish Sagola species. Table 1. Subregion codens for New Zealand sensu Crosby et al . (1998) .

North Island	South Island	Outer Island Groups
Subregion	Code	Subregion	Code	Subregion	Code
Auckland	AK	Buller	BR	Auckland Islands	AU
Bay of Plenty	BP	Central Otago	CO	Chatham Islands	CH
Coromandel	CL	Dunedin	DN	The Snares Islands	SN
Gisborne	GB	Fiordland	FD	Three Kings Islands	TH
Hawke’ s Bay	HB	Kaikoura	KA
Northland	ND	Marlborough	MB
Rangitikei	RI	Mid Canterbury	MC
Taranaki	TK	Mackenzie	MK
Taupo	TO	North Canterbury	NC
Wairarapa	WA	Nelson	NN
Wanganui	WI	Otago Lakes	OL
Wellington	WN	South Canterbury	SC
Waikato	WO	Malborough Sounds	SD
Stewart Island	SI
Southland	SL
Westland	WD

Type Species. Sagola misella Sharp (designated by Oke 1928: 5). Diagnosis. The members of the genus Sagola can be distinguished from other genera of Pselaphinae by the following combination of characters: habitus elongate parallel, dorsoventrally slightly flattened; antenna gradually clavate, not abruptly clubbed; dorsum of head with anterior or posterior frontal fovea or both; prosternum with median procoxal fovea and lateral procoxal fovea ( Fig. 59p ); mesoventrite with promesocoxal fovea ( Fig. 59q ); metaventrite with lateral metasternal fovea ( Fig. 59q ); abdominal ventrites IV–VI with basolateral fovea ( Fig. 59r ); abdominal tergite VI slightly larger than V and smaller than VII ( Fig. 59r ). Comments. Males of many species possess secondary sexual characters such as an enlarged triangular head ( Figs. 69 , 70z ), enlarged hind tarsal claw ( Fig. 56k ), and/or semicircular depression on the fore femur ( Fig. 4u : arrow). Males of other species lack obvious characters that distinguish them from females. Most keys provided here are based on male characters, so recognizing the sex of specimens is important to evaluate secondary sexual characters used in the keys. Male abdominal ventrite IX is usually fragile and partially concealed by ventrite VIII, rendering it simple and reduced in appearance ( Fig. 2 ; male). Females possess a more robust, triangular abdominal ventrite IX bearing a pair of long setae ( Fig. 2 ; female) that are usually visible in ventral view. Antennal shape is usually unique within speciesgroups and individual species. However, apparent variations may result from viewing at inconsistent orientations among specimens. Characterizing antennomeres is difficult, but still useful in comparing types or specimens in series.