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Apimela queenslandica Pace 2015, spec. nov.

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Description

Apimela queenslandica spec. nov.

(Figs 16, 54)

Type material: Holotype , Australia, Queensld., Gympio, Brooyar St. Forest, 12.III.1997, leg. Wachtel (CSCÜ).

Description: Length 2.2 mm. Body reddish-brown, antennae lost, legs yellowish-red. Eyes shorter than the postocular region in dorsal view. Reticulation of head, elytra and abdomen strong, that of the pronotum visible. Granulation of head and pronotum invisible, that of the elytra superficial, that of the abdomen close and evanescent, but sparse on the fifth free tergite. Spermatheca as in Fig. 54.

Comparative notes: The new species differs from A. australiensis PACE, 2003, also from Australia, known only by the male, having the body reticulate and from A. carnavonensis spec. nov. by the shape of the spermatheca.

Etymology: The new species takes its name from Queensland.

Notes

Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2015, New genera and new species of Aleocharinae from Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 327-339 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2) on page 333, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.2.327-339, http://zenodo.org/record/4754013

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CSCU
Event date
1997-03-12
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Apimela
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Pace
Species
queenslandica
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1997-03-12
Taxonomic concept label
Apimela queenslandica Pace, 2015

References

  • PACE, R. 2003: New or little known Aleocharinae from Australian Region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). - In: GIACHINO, P. M. & DACCORDI, M.: Result of the Zoological Mission to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. - Monografie del Museo regionale di Scienze naturali di Torino 35: 111 - 186.