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Frischianus setifer Frisch & Herman 2025, sp. nov.

  • 1. Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
  • 2. American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York 10024 - 5192, United States of America

Description

Frischianus setifer Frisch, sp. nov.

(Figs 148–150, 219, 220)

Type specimen: Holotype ♂, Indonesia, Banten, Lebak: Citorek Kidul (06°44'51"S, 106°19'13"E), 870 m, 23.V.2016, leg. Frisch (ZMB).

Description: Habitus cf. Fig. 52. Macrophthalmous, macropterous with palisade fringe of abdominal tergite VII. Head medium brown; pronotum, elytra, and abdomen light brown; antennae, palps, and legs yellow brown. Labral denticulation type 2 to 3 (cf. Figs 11–14). Forebody surface microsculpture type 1 (Fig. 1). Sutural elytral row of punctures distinct, but weakly impressed, occupying anterior 0.7 of elytral sutural length; medial and lateral row of punctures reduced to few, widely spaced punctures. Total body length 3.1 mm; forebody length 1.7 mm.

Male: Abdominal sternite VII in basal half with shallow, longitudinal, ovoidal impression occupying median third of sternite width followed posteriorly by two adjacent, submedian clusters of black macrosetae pointing medioposteriorly toward each other (Fig. 219). Abdominal sternite VIII with narrow, medioposterior incision with concave lateral margins, occupying about 0.4 of sternite length (Fig. 220).

Aedeagus (Figs 148–150) with apical lobe situated in sinistral half of distal aedeagal width (Fig. 149). Apical lobe in lateral view about as long as wide and triangular with acute, moderately ventrad curved apical end (Fig. 148), in ventral view with straight dextral margin and evenly dextrad curved sinistral margin gradually tapered toward rounded apical end (Fig. 149). Endophallic sclerite situated submedially in aedeagus (Fig. 150), in lateral view evenly, weakly dilated distad with subacute, moderately ventrad curved apical end slighly protruding from aedeagus dorsally (Fig. 148), in dorsal view from narrow, furcate base weakly curved dextrad with wide, round apical end almost reaching apex of apical lobe; in ventral and dorsal view, endophallic sclerite notably surpassing dextral margin of apical lobe (Figs 149, 150). Ostium with dextral margin strongly extended into long, longitudinally directed, dextrodistal spine of half length of apical lobe (Figs 149, 150). Aedeagus with ventral margin between postforamen and base of apical lobe concave (Fig. 148), in dorsal view long oval with both lateral margins bent equally, gradually tapered distad (Fig. 150). Length of aedeagus 0.36 mm.

Female unknown.

Distribution: Frischianus setifer is native to western Java and was discovered in the east of Banten Province.

Etymology: The epithet setifer [adjective, Latin, composed of the noun seta (bristle) and the verb ferre (to carry)] refers to the remarkable pair of posterior clusters of bristles of abdominal sternite VII of this new species, the arrangement of which is unique within Frischianus so far (Fig. 219).

Notes

Published as part of Frisch, Johannes & Herman, Lee, 2025, Frischianus gen. nov., a new genus of the Scopaeina Mulsant & Rey, 1878 from the Oriental Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Lathrobiini), pp. 217-290 in Megataxa 17 (2) on page 261, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.17.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/18484125

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMB
Event date
2016-05-23
Verbatim event date
2016-05-23
Scientific name authorship
Frisch & Herman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Frischianus
Species
setifer
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Frischianus setifer Frisch, 2025