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<taxonomicName id="35D5D5DF2960CECCE1CADDFBE8E5C910" ID-CoL="TRWN" authority="Lea, 1925" authorityName="Lea" authorityYear="1925" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cheilocolpus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cheilocolpus kentiae" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kentiae">Cheilocolpus kentiae (Lea, 1925)</taxonomicName>
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Figures 1, 2C
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<paragraph id="C8B3D5444BFE45F1DE45B219A4B64378" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">
<taxonomicName id="650626D6CAC5C316341BD56273D020ED" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Heterothops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Heterothops kentiae" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kentiae">Heterothops kentiae</taxonomicName>
Lea, 1925
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<paragraph id="CC4EB1741257C6CF9895D288055B3488" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="7B5D14034BF19663CA0131DD91E8C4B9" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">
Type material. Paratypes: All 20 paratypes kept in three institutions are mounted on 9 cards (pins) in groups from 1 to 5 specimens, with each pin having the same label printed on green or plain paper: 'On
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. Lord Howe I. A.M.
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. Additionally, respective groups of specimens on each pin have the following labels: 2 females,'
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Lea. Lea, Co-type[preprinted label with
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handwriting] / Cotypes / Paratype [blue printed label] / K 188918 [printed white label]'; 2 females, 'Co-type [printed label] / Paratype [pale blue printed label] / K56145 / Paratype [dark blue printed label] / K 188917 [printed white label]'; 1 male [mounted on its back] and 1 female, '
<taxonomicName id="484CB6A2FC95C76F8411610A741FC84A" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Heterothops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Heterothops kentiae" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kentiae">Heterothops kentiae</taxonomicName>
Lea. H288 Lea, Co-type [preprinted label with
<normalizedToken id="046C5B2AC437C6DD89A080BA77341D8C" originalValue="Leas">Lea's</normalizedToken>
handwriting] / Paratype [pale blue printed label] / A.H. Elston Collection [printed label] / K 188916' (all six specimens on three pins from AMS); 1 male, 1 female, '
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. Lea, Co-type [preprinted label with
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handwriting] / Department of Zoology. Natural History Museum. University of Oslo. (ZMUN) [printed label] / Syntype. V.I. Gusarov rev. 2005 [two red printed labels]' (ZMUN); 3 males, 2 females, 'Summit of Mt. Gover, L.H.I. A.M. Lea /
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Lea, Co-type [preprinted label with
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handwriting] / Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection [printed label]'; 1 male, 2 females, '
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Lea, Co-type [preprinted label with
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handwriting] / Cotypus, Lea don. A. Lea [purple label in M.
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handwriting] / Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection [printed label]' (FMNH); 2 males on the same card, 'c/3079 /
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Lea, Co-type [preprinted label with
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handwriting]'; 2 specimens mounted on two separate cards but on the same pin, 'Lord Howe I., A.M. Lea / C 3199 /
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Lea,
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(QM).
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Additional material, all from Lord Howe Island, Australia. 5 specimens: Stevens Reserve, rotted log and bark litter with fungi, 23.v.1980, S. + J. Peck; 2 specimens, Intermediate Hill, Big Creek, malaise trap through tall forest, 18-30.v.1980, S. + J. Peck; 1 specimen, Intermediate Hill, Big Creek, litter under carrion baits, 30.x.1980, S. + J. Peck; 7 specimens, Far Flats, thatch palm litter with nuts, 21.v.1989, S. + J. Peck (ANIC); 9 specimens: Mount Gower, 650-882 m [various collection dates] (AMS); 1 specimen: Mount Lidgbird, leaf litter of
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Nest Fern Asplenium goudeyi 1.5 m off ground, 21.x.2001, Ian Hutton (AMS).
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<paragraph id="C9D228EB1AD8F7ABCFB4E76178E2B594" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Habitus as in Figure 1. Head as wide as, or wider than pronotum, black to dark brown with distinct microsculpture; infraorbital ridges short, far not reaching base of mandibles; postmandibular ridges well developed, extending towards gular sutures but not reaching them; postgena with scattered shallow punctures; eyes about a third of the size of the side of the head; antennomeres 1-3 yellow, 4-11 dark brown; distal antennomeres transverse; apical segment of labial and maxillary palpi aciculate. Pronotum dark brown with two punctures in each dorsal series and distinct microsculpture, hypomera without post-coxal process; elytra dark yellow, each elytron generally with posterior two thirds darkened; fully winged; legs yellow, tarsi with very long setae ventrally, protarsi with a few long white adhesive setae ventrally. Tergites III to V with anterior and posterior basal carinae; male sternite VIII without apical incision (unusual for most of
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); aedeagus with paramere; closely attached to, and apically protruding over, but median lobe and paramere still two distinctly separate entities, paramere apically rounded with several setae (Figure 2C).
</paragraph>
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Figure 1. Habitus of
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(Lea, 1925).
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Figure 2. Aedeagi of Lord Howe Island
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(anti-parameral view). A
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sp. n. B
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(Lea, 1925) C
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(Lea, 1925).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="12DE2B6E20C0E76C00C44D65B5F7E3E7" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Taxon discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="465126183751EE546409B4DF4A16BF28" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">
The original placement of
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in the genus
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Stephens, 1829, like many other species of Australian
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, was based on the aciculate last segment of maxillary palpi and resemblance in habitus. With such poorly justified generic identifications,
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Stephens, 1829 was inflated to a genus of about 150 species from all over the world (
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;
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,
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;
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;
<bibRefCitation id="FB898F3809A242F8857B56A94F9EBCA4" author="Solodovnikov, A" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Entomology" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" pagination="443 - 466" title="Revised systematics and biogeography of ' Quediina' of sub-Saharan Africa: new phylogenetic insights into the rove beetle tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00468.x" volume="34" year="2009">Solodovnikov and Schomann 2009</bibRefCitation>
).
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is based on the European species
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(Gravenhorst, 1802) and its generic limits when including better known Holarctic species only (
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;
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) are more clear. Holarctic
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can be defined by the following character combination: long infraorbital ridges extending to base of mandibles; aciculate last segment of maxillary palps; pronotal hypomera without translucent post-coxal process; anterior tarsi dilated in both sexes; abdominal segments III-V with posterior basal carina connecting spiracles; and aedeagus with paramere entirely fused to median lobe so that both structures appear as one entity. Earlier this fusion was correctly recognized by
<bibRefCitation id="378EC256D30B9ABAF0F4DB5BBBA1E9BF" author="Coiffait, H" journalOrPublisher="Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie Supplement" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" pagination="1 - 364" title="Coleopteres Staphylinidae de la region palearctique occidentale III, sous famille Staphylininae, tribu Quediini; sous famille Paederinae, tribu Pinophilini." volume="8" year="1978">Coiffait (1978)</bibRefCitation>
but misinterpreted as the complete loss of parameres by
<bibRefCitation id="4FB3C85A134A39831C4959183DB23BE8" author="Smetana, A" journalOrPublisher="Quaestiones Entomologicae" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" pagination="163 - 464" title="Revision of the tribes Quediini and Atanygnathini, Part II: The Himalayan region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)." volume="24" year="1988">Smetana (1988)</bibRefCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="CB34296AFC187559B12ED9FA6D572CE1" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="4" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">
With poorly studied global species diversity of '
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', it is not clear how far this character combination holds when Neotropical or Oriental species are considered (
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is represented by one species in the Afrotropical region according to
<bibRefCitation id="DDF06E5C6AA3E32E95F81F3DDDBE5AE8" author="Solodovnikov, A" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Entomology" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" pagination="443 - 466" title="Revised systematics and biogeography of ' Quediina' of sub-Saharan Africa: new phylogenetic insights into the rove beetle tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00468.x" volume="34" year="2009">Solodovnikov and Schomann 2009</bibRefCitation>
). But, as far as the native Australian '
<taxonomicName id="53D021FD9DF777CA56336FCD1E9D961A" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Heterothops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Heterothops" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Heterothops</taxonomicName>
' are concerned, it is clear that they are not congeneric with the Holarctic ones. Although the Australian and Holarctic species share some characters from the above mentioned diagnostic combination, the former do not have extended infraorbital ridges and their aedeagi have very distinct median lobe and paramere. At the same time, Australian '
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' share the same diagnostic character combination with the Chilean genus
<taxonomicName id="D160F1B3380A9E57E10357BF0D3283D7" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cheilocolpus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cheilocolpus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Cheilocolpus</taxonomicName>
Solier, 1849, namely: infraorbital ridges poorly developed, short, never reaching the base of mandibles; apical segment of labial and maxillary palps aciculate, at base distinctly more narrow than apex of penultimate segment; pronotal hypomera without translucent post-coxal process; abdominal tergites III-V (or at least III) with anterior and posterior basal
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, the latter connecting spiracles; paramere not fused with median lobe, distinct. Also,
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differ from
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in habitus: the former (in dorsal view) have elongate more or less parallel-sided pronotum, while the latter have pronotum with sides narrowing anteriad.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="443521EAB0900B2A866B27C14F8FD772" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="5" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
The genus
<taxonomicName id="8A16646112FEDD29E04DED693C354149" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cheilocolpus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cheilocolpus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Cheilocolpus</taxonomicName>
is based on
<taxonomicName id="AC50E2FD57D269959BBFEF08A5EB812C" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cheilocolpus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cheilocolpus pyrostoma" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pyrostoma">Cheilocolpus pyrostoma</taxonomicName>
(Solier, 1849) and, compared to other free living south temperate
<taxonomicName id="7DB8260E8530372B904502A9155672A3" lsidName="Amblyopinina" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" rank="subtribe" subtribe="Amblyopinina">Amblyopinina</taxonomicName>
, is relatively well monographed in a series of papers (
<bibRefCitation id="72332C271EA1AC43753198601248E3E2" author="Coiffait, H" journalOrPublisher="Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" pagination="385 - 414" title="Les Quediini du Chile." volume="2" year="1966">
Coiffait and
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1966
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;
<bibRefCitation id="F83783B69BDC7A0516A3FC83BC91D181" author="Saiz, F" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse" pageId="20" pageNumber="21" pagination="364 - 392" title="Sur les Quediini du Chili (Col. Staphylinidae)." volume="106" year="1971">
<normalizedToken id="E34ED2E79A03051AC24164A9A74F91A6" originalValue="Sáiz">Saiz</normalizedToken>
1971
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). Its limits with other related Neotropical genera such as
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Blackwelder, 1952 or
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Bernhauer, 1939 are not clear and must be investigated more elaborately. However, the listed shared character states and remarkable habitus similarity between the Australian '
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'
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and smaller members of
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such as
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(Solier, 1849) from Chile, make it plausible to consider them congeneric. Such affinity is also biogeographically plausible in view of Gondwana-derived transantarctic connections between Australia and South America (e.g.
<bibRefCitation id="7A0D88B2CCBE399BBD5418A73C824F6B" author="Boger, SD" journalOrPublisher="Gondwana Research" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" pagination="335 - 371" title="Antarctica - before and after Gondwana." url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2010.09.003" volume="19" year="2011">Boger 2011</bibRefCitation>
). Even though we plan to move the main bulk of species of the Australian '
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' to
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in the course of a phylogeny-based generic revision of
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(Jenkins Shaw &amp; Solodovnikov, in prep.), here we already do so for
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(and one other species, see below). Nomenclatural priority of the generic name
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over
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or
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also encourages this transfer now even though a separate genus status of these genera with respect to each other may be reconsidered in the future.
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<subSubSection id="DA296FB920BE91886A6F5DA99A8D995C" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" type="notes">
<paragraph id="90DA8A9D58D497880E80CFA40A1A2A64" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Note on the type material.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6C7C85E7D672E85CDAE905D4183F15F8" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">
In the original description of
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,
<bibRefCitation id="B63240B71D81A12E169A2FB4AAFE89E9" author="Lea, A" journalOrPublisher="Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" pagination="213 - 253" title="On Australian Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) Part II." volume="49" year="1925">Lea (1925)</bibRefCitation>
mentioned that he and his wife collected multiple specimens at Mt. Gower on fallen fronds and on wet parts of the
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palm trees. He also indicated a specimen with the number
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as a
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. Based on the information in the original description, all specimens examined here are paratypes, many of which were apparently distributed by Lea among colleagues. Even though we did not examine the holotype (specimen with
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) that apparently is kept in
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collection at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, identity of the paratypes is unambigous.
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