Stenus depressiusculus L. Benick, 1933

Janák, Jiří, 2022, Four new species and additional records of the genus Stenus of southern Africa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Steninae), Zootaxa 5174 (4), pp. 331-356 : 338

Stenus depressiusculus L. Benick, 1933

Type locality. South Africa, Western Cape Province, Cape Town, Rondebosch .

Material examined. SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape: 3 ♂, 3 ♀: Table Mts. NP , Cape Peninsula, Olifantsbos , 34°15.3’S, 18°23.1’E, 11.x.2013, J. Janák lgt. ( TMSA, JJRC) .

Distribution. The species is hitherto recorded only from Cape Peninsula (Western Cape province).

Remark. The new record is the first record after at least 80 years, the specimens were collected by treading in wetland in low fynbos in October 2013 ( Fig. 71 ). Eight years latter (October 2021) the record was not repeated, but three different Stenus species were collected in this locality ( S. hessei , S. capicola , S. cf. grandipennis ).

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FIGURES 67–72. Localities where Stenus species were collected. S. hippoamicus Janák, sp. nov. (67, St. Lucia; 68, Ndumo); S. volkerputhzianus Janák, sp. nov. (69, Himeville, 70, Tugella river); S. hessei L. Benick, S. capicola L. Benick, S. depressiusculus L. Benick, S. cf. grandipennis L. Benick, 1933 (71, Olifantsbos); S. spiniferoides Janák, sp. nov. (72, Langvlei).