Octavius montiumdraconis Janak, Gudu 2007
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Description
Octavius montiumdraconis Janák, 2007
Figs. 49–54, 120, 124
Octavius montiumdraconis Janák, 2007: 198.
Type locality. South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Province, Maloti-Drakensberg Park, Royal Natal National Reserve, Gudu forest.
Material examined (70 specimens). SOUTH AFRICA: KwaZulu-Natal: 37 ♂, 33 ♀: Maloti-Drakensberg Park, Royal Natal NR, Gudu Forest 28°41.0ʼS, 28°55.8ʼE, 1730m, 9.i.2019, J. Janák lgt., Berlese extraction, leaf & log litter, sifting (TMSA, JJRC, 3 ♀ in 96% alcohol).
Distribution. The species is known only from Gudu forest in Royal Natal National Reserve, Drakensberg Mts., South Africa (Fig. 120).
Bionomics. All specimens were collected in siftings of forest litter in a patch of an indigenous forest at the elevation of about 1700 m a.s.l. with the abundance of 4.2 specimens per kg of sifted material (Fig. 124).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- TMSA, JJRC
- Event date
- 2019-01-09
- Verbatim event date
- 2019-01-09
- Scientific name authorship
- Janak, Gudu
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Octavius
- Species
- montiumdraconis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Octavius montiumdraconis Janak, 2007 sec. Janák, 2024
References
- Janak, J. (2007) New species and distribution records of the genus Octavius Fauvel from South Africa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 44, 197 - 202.