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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.