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Sagola unuwhaoensis Park and Carlton, new species

  • 1. Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, Department of Entomology, LSB 404 Louisiana State University Agric

Description

Sagola unuwhaoensis Park and Carlton, new species

(Figs. 25c, 25f, 26)

Type Material. Holotype. NEW ZEALAND: Northland: 1♂ (NZAC), aedeagus dissected and mounted in balsam on a clear plastic card, “ NEW ZEALAND, ND Unuwhao, 270m, 25 Nov 1982 G. Kuschel ” “sifted litter and decayed wood 82/125”, “ N.Z. Arthropod Collection, NZAC Private Bag 92170 AUCKLAND New Zealand”, “ HOLOTYPE Sagola unuwhaoensis Park and Carlton 2013 ”.

Etymology. This species is named after the type locality, Unuwhao, Northland.

Diagnosis. This species is similar in appearance to other members of this species-group but can be distinguished by the shape of the antennae and genitalia.

Description of Male. Length 2.8 mm. Body reddish brown, antennae, elytra, legs, and maxillary palpi paler (Fig. 25c). Head: Transverse, widest across temples (Fig. 25c). Antennomeres 2–3 subquadrate, 4–6 longer than wide, 7–10 subquadrate. Eye small and prominent, one-third length of temple. Thorax: Prosternum weakly transverse, widest at midpoint. Elytra rectangular (Fig. 25c). Meso- and metathorax trapezoidal, as long as wide. Aedeagus: Median lobe slender, slightly shorter than parameres (Fig. 25f). Phallobase of median lobe asymmetrical and rounded (Fig. 25f). Parameres symmetrical with dense setae along midline and thick setae apically (Fig. 25f).

Distribution. Northland (Fig. 26: black square).

Habitat. The holotype and only known specimen of this species was collected by sifting leaf litter and decayed wood.

Notes

Published as part of Park, J. - S. & Carlton, C. E., 2014, A revision of the New Zealand species of the genus Sagola Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Faronitae), pp. 1-156 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 13) (mo 13) 68 on page 50, DOI: 10.1649/072.068.0mo4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4907735

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D82A3EBD58117D3CFEFBECFC48FE5C
LSID
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:5DFE40B5-7CB7-4F90-929A-25FB53796113

Biodiversity

Collection code
NZAC, NEW, ZEALAND
Event date
1982-11-25
Verbatim event date
1982-11-25
Scientific name authorship
Park and Carlton
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Sagola
Species
unuwhaoensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Sagola unuwhaoensis Park & Carlton, 2014