Diversity of Scydmaeninae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Upper Eocene Rovno amber
Author
Jałoszyński, Paweł
Author
Perkovsky, Evgeny
text
Zootaxa
2016
4157
1
1
85
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4157.1.1
2389f078-1812-4b4e-826a-561cd7e46654
1175-5326
262413
6BF4514A-892F-499F-BC1E-B7920C7A00B0
?
Microscydmus
sp. 2
(
Figs 30
,
204–208
)
Material
studied.
Late Eocene
of
Europe
,
Rovno
amber:
sex unknown; inclusion in elongate, subtrapezoidal prism of amber
14 mm
long (
Fig. 30
), collection number K-6943 (
SIZK
).
Description.
Body (
Figs 204–208
) elongate, moderately slender and convex, light brown; BL
0.73 mm
.
Head (
Figs 204–208
) short and subhexagonal, broadest at eyes, HL
0.13 mm
, HW
0.19 mm
; vertex (
Fig. 207
;
vt
) and frons (
Fig. 207
;
fr
) confluent, weakly convex and together subhexagonal, strongly transverse; eyes large, oval, strongly convex; tempora in lateral view (
Fig. 208
) distinctly shorter than eyes. Punctures and setae on frons and vertex poorly visible. Antennae (
Figs 204–208
) distinctly shorter than half BL, AnL about
0.25 mm
, scape and pedicel strongly elongate, antennomeres III–VII each about as long as broad or slightly elongate, VIII slightly elongate, X about as long as broad, XI slightly transverse, XI much shorter than IX–X combined, about 1.2 × as long as broad, slightly narrower than X and rounded at apex.
Pronotum (
Figs 204, 207
) round, broadest near anterior third; PL
0.20 mm
, PW
0.20 mm
; anterior and posterior margins weakly arcuate, anterior and posterior pronotal corners broadly obtuse-angled and blunt; sides strongly rounded; antebasal structures poorly visible. Punctures and setae on pronotal disc poorly visible.
Elytra (
Figs 204–205, 207–208
) elongate oval, moderately convex, EL
0.40 mm
, EW
0.30 mm
, EI 1.33; punctures (
Fig. 208
) fine but discernible, separated by spaces 3–4 × as wide as diameters of punctures; setae (
Fig. 208
) sparse, short, suberect.
Legs (
Figs 205–206, 208
) moderately long, slender, unmodified.
Remarks.
This small specimen is tentatively identified as
Microscydmus
, but too few important structures are observable to confirm this placement.