Octavius adriani Janak 2014
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Octavius adriani Janák, 2014
Figs. 1–10, 120, 134
Octavius adriani Janák, 2014: 202
Type locality. South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Province, Northington Forest.
Material examined (155 specimens). SOUTH AFRICA: KwaZulu-Natal: 77 ♂, 78 ♀: Maloti-Drakensberg Park, Mkomazi WA [Wilderness area], Gxalingenwa forest, 29°39.2ʼS 29°25.2ʼE, 1610 m, 15.i.2019, J. Janák lgt., Berlese extraction, leaf & log litter, sifting (TMSA, JJRC, 2 ♂ in 96 % alcohol).
Note. Specimens from Gxalingenwa forest donʼt differ markedly from the specimens from the type locality – only the aedeagus is slightly larger (cf. Figs. 2–8), but with same shape of median lobe and internal structure.
Distribution. The species is currently known from Northington and Gxalingenwa (Fig. 120) forests in KwaZulu-Natal Province.
Bionomics. All specimens were collected in siftings of forest litter in a patch of an indigenous forest at the elevation of about 1600 m a.s.l. and with the abundance 12.3 specimens per kg of sifted material (Fig. 134).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- TMSA, JJRC
- Event date
- 2019-01-15
- Verbatim event date
- 2019-01-15
- Scientific name authorship
- Janak
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Octavius
- Species
- adriani
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Octavius adriani Janak, 2014 sec. Janák, 2024
References
- Janak, J. (2014) New species and subspecies of Octavius from South Africa, with a key and additional distribution records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Euaesthetinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 54 (1), 195 - 231.