Iotarphia rufobrunnea Lee & Ahn

Song, Jeong-Hun, Osborn, Andrew W. & Ahn, Kee-Jeong, 2021, A taxonomic review of the coastal genus Iotarphia Cameron (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) with a description of new species based on morphological and molecular characters, Zootaxa 4920 (3), pp. 417-427 : 424

Iotarphia rufobrunnea Lee & Ahn

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Iotarphia rufobrunnea Lee & Ahn, 2016: 68 .

Description. See Lee & Ahn (2016).

Materials examined. AUSTRALIA: Tasmania: 1³, Cloudy Bay , Bruny Is, SE Tas, A.W. Osborn 10.vi.2018, QVM :2018:12:0744, CNUIC0659 ; 1♀, QVM :2018:12:0727, CNUIC0660 .

Distribution. Australia (Tasmania).

Remarks. See Table 5 for the similarities and differences among three Iotarphia species. The female of I. rufobrunnea is characterized for the first time: female sternite VIII with 4–5 macrosetae on each side of midline, posterior margin rounded ( Fig. 5b ); and spermatheca as in Fig. 5c .

Figures

FIGURE 5. Iotarphia rufobrunnea: (a) meso- and metaventrites, ventral view; (b) female abdominal sternite VIII, ventral view; (c) spermatheca, scales = 0.1 mm.