Amblopusa brevipes Casey 1893
- 1. Department of Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Tokai University, Hokkaido, 005 - 8601, Japan. & Corresponding author
- 2. Sounan, Minami-ku, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa, 252 - 0312, Japan.
- 3. The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6 - 10 - 1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812 - 8581, Japan.
Description
Amblopusa brevipes Casey, 1893
[Japanese name: Kita-nokoba-umi-hanekakushi]
(Figs. 12C; 18E–G; 19; 26A)
Amblopusa brevipes Casey, 1893: 356 (original description; type locality: Fort Wrangel, Alaska); Zerche, 1998: 106 (characters; habitus photograph; phylogenetic analysis); Yoo &Ahn, 2020: 506 (redescription; habitus photograph). For other references, see Yoo & Ahn (2020).
Amblopusa pallida Casey, 1911: 212 (original description; type locality: Victoria, Vancouver Island).
Material examined. Japan: Hokkaidô: 58 unsexed, Ishikari-shi, Atsuta-ku, Gokibiru, 22. III. 2020, Y. Tasaku (KUM, cYT); 2 males, 1 female, 15 unsexed, ditto, 2. V. 2020, Y. Tasaku (cYT); 1 male, 4 unsexed, Shimamakimura, Taihei, estuary of Taihei-gawa, 12. V. 2020, D. Sumikawa (cYT).
Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other Amblopusa species by the body size (about 2.5 mm) except A. pacifica. From A. pacifica, it can be distinguished the following characteristics: pronotum slightly convex with anterolateral margin rounded (Fig. 17C); median lobe of aedeagus with apical lobe acute at apex in lateral view (Fig. 18E).
Distribution. Japan: western Hokkaidô; Canada; USA: Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, California (Fig. 26A). Newly recorded from Japan.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- KUM
- Event date
- 2020-03-22 , 2020-05-02 , 2020-05-12
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Amblopusa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Casey
- Species
- brevipes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2020-03-22 , 2020-05-02 , 2020-05-12
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amblopusa brevipes Casey, 1893 sec. Tasaku, Ono & Maruyama, 2023
References
- Zerche, L. (1998) Amblopusa magna sp. n. - eine neue Art der amphipazifischen Gattung Amblopusa Casey, 1893 aus dem Fernen Osten RuSSlands und ihre Stellung im phylogenetischen System (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Liparocephalini). Beitrage zur Entomologie, 48, 103 - 113.
- Yoo, I. - S. & Ahn, K. - J. (2020) Discovery of a new intertidal species, Amblopusa vancouverensis from Vancouver Island, Canada with notes on Amblopusa brevipes Casey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Zootaxa, 4803 (3), 505 - 514. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4803.3.6