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Paraphloeostiba brevicula Shavrin 2024

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Paraphloeostiba brevicula Shavrin, 2024

Paraphloeostiba brevicula Shavrin, 2024b: 592.

Material. SOLOMON ISLANDS: 9 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀: Guadalcanal, Mt.Austen. 24.11.1964. P. Greenslade leg. (BMNH); 1 ♀: same data. 24.04- 03.05.1965. (BMNH); 1 ♀: San Cristoval, confluence of Warahito and Pagato rivers. Rotten wood and forest litter. 07.1965. P.N. Lawrence leg. (BMNH); 1 ♂: San Cristoval, 7 mls. S Wainoni. At light. 24.07.65. P.N. Lawrence leg. (BMNH); 1 ♂: same data, ca 7 mls. S Wainoni. Arborial litter. 30.07- 02.08.1965. I. & P.N. Lawrence leg. <‘ Associated Adult / Larvae Coll. Tube 5’> (BMNH); 1 ♀: Popamanasiu. Alt. 5700`ft., forest litter 08- 09.11.1965. P.N. Lawrence leg. <‘ Associated Adult / Larvae Coll. Tube 42’> (BMNH); 1 ♂: Umasani River, 6 mls. SW Tamboko. On Areca macrocalyx. 07- 10.07.1965. P.N. Lawrence leg. (BMNH).

Remarks. Paraphloeostiba brevicula was recently described from the eastern part of Papua New Guinea (Shavrin 2024b). It is here recorded from Solomon Islands for the first time.

Notes

Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2025, A new species and records of Paraphloeostiba Steel, 1860 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae), pp. 571-578 in Zootaxa 5728 (3) on page 572, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/17895021

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Event date
1964-11-24 , 1965-02-08 , 1965-03-05 , 1965-09-11 , 1965-10-07
Verbatim event date
1964-11-24 , 1965-02-08 , 1965-03-05 , 1965-09-11 , 1965-10-07
Scientific name authorship
Shavrin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Paraphloeostiba
Species
brevicula
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Paraphloeostiba brevicula Shavrin, 2024 sec. Shavrin, 2025

References

  • Shavrin, A. V. (2024 b) New species and records of Paraphloeostiba Steel, 1960 and Xanthonomus Bernhauer, 1926 from the eastern Palaearctic, Oriental and Papuan regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae). Zootaxa, 5514 (6), 589-597. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5514.6.7