Vanuatiella tishechkini Besuchet & Hlaváč 2011, sp. nov.
Creators
- 1. Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Route de Malagnou, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland
- 2. Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, CZ- 165 21 Praha 6, Czech Republic; e-mail: phlavac @ stonline. sk
Description
Vanuatiella tishechkini sp. nov.
(Figs. 4, 9, 10)
Type material (1 J 2 ♀♀). HOLOTYPE: J, VANUATU: ESPIRITU SANTO I.: Cumberland Peninsula, Saratsi Range at 14.9673°S 166.6787°E. 1200m. Flight intercept FL 12B-7. 20-21.Nov 2006. A. K. Tishechkin. AT748 (MNHN). PARATYPES: 2 ♀♀, the same data as holotype (MHNG, PHKS).
Description. Body (Fig. 4) 1.37–1.47 mm long. Head elongate, about 1.3–1.4 times as long as wide. Terminal antennomere as long as head, median opening of terminal antennomere located just before middle. Pronotum about 1.3 times as wide as long, and about 1.22–1.25 times shorter than head. Elytra wide, 1.3–1.4 times as wide as long at suture, sutural striae well-defined, parallel to suture along whole length of suture. Mesotibiae with minuscule, sharp spine located in apical fourth. Aedeagus as in Figs. 9–10, 0.23 mm long.
Sexual dimorphism. Mesotibiae of female simple, lacking spines in apical fourth.
Etymology. This new species is named in honour of Alexey Tishechkin, a well-known specialist on Histeridae and the collector of the type series.
Biology. Host ant unknown. All four specimens were collected by flight intercept trap, together with myrmecophilous species of the Histeridae: Chlamydopsinae (TISHECHKIN 2009).
Distribution. Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo Island.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Vanuatiella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Besuchet & Hlaváč
- Species
- tishechkini
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Vanuatiella tishechkini Besuchet & Hlaváč, 2011
References
- TISHECHKIN A. K. 2009: Discovery of Chlamydopsinae (Insecta, Coleoptera, Histeridae) in Vanuatu with the description of eight new species from Espiritu Santo Island. Zoosystema 30: 661 - 690.