The genus Oedichirus in New Caledonia (Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Pinophilini) Author Rougemont, Guillaume de text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2018 2018-07-27 50 1 537 586 journal article 21039 10.5281/zenodo.4004257 61bdc8ed-f0e1-4c9e-a7de-71ea43cecdd9 0253-116X 4004257 Oedichirus manautei nov.sp. (Figs 1) Material studied: ♂ Holotype : NEW CALEDONIA , R. Bleue , Pourina track, 18 Nov 2001 , GB Monteith ♀ HOLOTYPE Oedichirus opaciceps Des. 2016, G. de Rougemont [ MNHN ] ; 1 paratype : [abdominal segments VIII-IX missing]: NEW CALEDONIA , Mt. Koghis , Elev. 500, Montane forest , 22-24 May 1987 , N.I. Platnick , R.J. Raven [ AMNH ] ; 1♂ paratype : NEW CALEDONIA , Monts Koghis , Auberge near Nouméa , 500 m , 26.VII – 13.VIII. 1978 , S.&J. Peck , rainforest ♀ berl. Rainforest leaf litter ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus opaciceps Des. 2017 G. de Rougemont [ FMC ] . Description: length: ca. 12 mm ; length of fore-body: 4.2; length of head: 1.5; breadth of head: 1.42; length of antenna: 3; length of pronotum: 1.65; breadth of pronotum: 1.42; length of elytron: 1.35; breadth of elytra: 1.47. Body black, palpi, antennae and legs testaceous, knees broadly infuscate. Head sericeous, sub-opaque, entirely covered with very dense reticulate microsculpture; pronotum likewise entirely micropunctate, but reticulation a little less dense; elytra devoid of microsculpture; abdominal tergites entirely covered with dense micro-striation. Pubescence very sparse, erect, short on fore-body, longer on abdomen. Habitus: Fig. 1h. Head transverse; eyes prominent, a little shorter than temples; temples strongly convergent, retracted to neck in almost straight lines; post ocular border situated almost on lateral margin, the groove narrow, inconspicuous; puncturation very sparse, vertex almost impunctate, punctures, especially in post-ocular area small and shallow. Pronotum quite strongly elongate, behnd anterior angles as broad as head, the sides retracted in slight curves to base; lateral margin entirely bordered; disc coarsely, irregularly punctate, the punctures much larger than those of head, elongate and clustered at centre of disc, sparser and more irregular on sides and leaving a small mid-longitudinal impunctate area in basal 1♀ 3 rd . Elytra small, transverse, widest at middle, humeral angles completely obsolete, the sides evenly rounded, joint posterior margin arcuately concave; puncturation coarse and dense, comparable to that of pronotum. Keels and grooves of anterior margins of abdominal tergites obsolete; puncturation sparse, tergites III-VI each with an irregular transverse row of small punctures, four large punctures disposed in a square enclosing an impunctate area of middle of the tergite, and other randomly disposed punctures on sides. Male: abdominal sternite VIII with a slightly asymmetrical emargination, most of the surface anterior to this flattened and densely microsculptate and impunctate, the right margin of this area elevated in the form of a small keel; aedoeagus: Figs. 1arl, av. This species differs most notably from O. peckorum nov.sp. which has a similarly punctate abdomen and densely microsculptate head by the shape of the temples. Dedication: to Joseph Manauté, manager of the Rivière Bleue Reserve, and dedicated conservationist.