Sagola deformipes Broun, 1880

Park, J. - S. & Carlton, C. E., 2014, A revision of the New Zealand species of the genus Sagola Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Faronitae), The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 13) 68, pp. 1-156 : 49-50

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https://doi.org/ 10.1649/072.068.0mo4.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5765111

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scientific name

Sagola deformipes Broun, 1880
status

 

Sagola deformipes Broun, 1880 View in CoL

( Figs. 25b, 25e, 25g –h View Fig , 26 View Fig )

Sagola deformipes Broun, 1880: 138 View in CoL . Schaufuss 1888: 84; Raffray 1893: 33, 1904: 497, 1911: 5; Hudson 1923: 365, 1934: 183; Raffray 1924: 231; Newton and Thayer 2005b; Nomura and Leschen 2006: 242.

Type Material. Holotype. NEW ZEALAND: Northland: 1♂ ( BMNH), glued on rectangular card, “Type” [red label, printed]; “252” [green label, printed]; “Tairua” [white label, printed]; “252. ♂.” [white label, handwritten]; “New Zealand Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922–482.” [white label, printed]; “ Sagola deformipes ” [white label, handwritten].

Additional Material (n = 7; 4 males, 3 females). NEW ZEALAND: Auckland : 1♀, Waitakere Rgs , 1 VI 1942, M.W. Carter ; Bay of Plenty: 1♂ , Tapapa Tukorehe Res. , 300m, 25 III 1978, S. & J. Peck, berl., litter ; Northland: 1♂ , Waipoua SF, 20 IX 1977, SH12, D.W. Helmore, rotten stumps/ trees 77/102 ; 1♀, Waipoua SF, Taraite Stump , 15 VI 1966, J.C. Watt ; 1♂, Waipoua SF, Wairau Summit , 387m, 11–14 IV 1980, podocarp-mixed broadleaf, A. Newton, M. Thayer, pyrethrin fogging Ganoderma sp .; 1♀, Waipoua SF, Toatoa tr., 270m, 12–15 IV 1980, toatoa-kauri-podocarpbroadlf, A. Newton, M. Thayer, berl., leaf and log litter, forest floor; Taupo: 1♂ (slide-mounted), Pureora Forest , Rimu Walk, 30 I 2008, K. Marske, R. Leschen, T. Buckley, Sifted wood and leaf litter, S 38.33.987′, E 175.43.068′, 479 m.

Diagnosis. This species is similar in appearance to other members of this species-group but can be distinguished by the shape of the antennae and genitalia.

Redescription. Length 2.6–2.9 mm. Body brown, antennae, legs, and maxillary palpi paler, elytra yellowish brown ( Fig. 25b View Fig ). Head: Transverse, widest across temples ( Fig. 25g View Fig ). Antennomere 2 longer than wide, 3–10 subquadrate, 5–6 weakly enlarged. Eye small and prominent, one-third length of temple. Thorax: Prosternum weakly transverse, widest at midpoint. Elytra rectangular ( Fig. 25b View Fig ). Meso- and metathorax trapezoidal, as long as wide. Aedeagus: Median lobe slender, much shorter than parameres ( Fig. 25e View Fig ). Phallobase of median lobe asymmetrical and rectangular ( Fig. 25e View Fig ). Parameres asymmetrical, left longer than right with dense setae along mid line except apex ( Fig. 25e View Fig ). Right paramere with dense setae along midline ( Fig. 25e View Fig ).

Type Locality. Tairua , Coromandel, New Zealand .

Distribution. Auckland, Coromandel, Northland, Taupo ( Fig. 26 View Fig : triangles).

Habitat. Specimens of this species were collected by sifting leaf and log litter in podocarp and broadleaf forests.

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Sagola

Loc

Sagola deformipes Broun, 1880

Park, J. - S. & Carlton, C. E. 2014
2014
Loc

Sagola deformipes

Hudson 1934: 183
Raffray 1924: 231
Hudson 1923: 365
Raffray 1911: 5
Raffray 1904: 497
Raffray 1893: 33
Schaufuss 1888: 84
1888
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