Anabaxis lunatica King, 1863

Shen, Jia-Wei & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2018, Review and clinal variation of New Zealand Anabaxis Raffray (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Goniaceritae), Zootaxa 4382 (3), pp. 531-552 : 542-543

Anabaxis lunatica King, 1863

( Fig. 7A, 7D )

Bryaxis lunatica King, 1863: 48 .

Rybaxis lunatica Raffray, 1900: 160 . Redescription.

Anabaxis lunatica ( King, 1863) . Combination by Raffray, 1908: 252. Anabaxis lunatica ( King, 1863) . Designation as type species of Anabaxis by Newton and Chandler, 1989: 42.

Type locality. Parramatta , Australia.

Notes: King (1863) did not mention the number of specimens he examined when describing this species, and we examined two male specimens in AMS that were originally mounted on the same card that was labeled ‘Holotype’. We remounted the specimens and designated one specimen as the lectotype and the other as a paralectotype. Raffray (1900) redescribed the species, indicated by a question mark at the species heading, from a single specimen from New South Wales that is doubtfully conspecific with A. lunatica .

Type material examined: Anabaxis lunatica . Lectotype (here designated) (AMS): ‘ Bryaxis lunatic 130 [hand] // n 22502 [hand] // Holotype [red rectangular label] // K 209154’. Paralectotype (here designated) (AMS): same data as the lectotype.

Figures

FIGURE7. Primarytype specimens and diagnostic features of Anabaxis Raffray,1908.A) Lectotype, Anabaxis lunatica King, 1863. B)Lectotype, Anabaxis quinquefoveolataRaffray, 1900.C) Lectotype, Anabaxis vagus Oke, 1932.D) Head of Anabaxis lunatica, in dorsal view. E) Head of Anabaxis foveolata, in dorsal view.Scale bar:A, B, C = 0.3 mm, D, E = 0.15 mm.