Stenus hypostenoides PUTHZ , 1971

Mainda, Tobias, M, Cyclops & M, Foja, 2021, Stenus attenboroughi nov. sp. and records of Stenus LATREILLE, 1797 from New Guinea (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 1005-1012 : 1010

Stenus hypostenoides PUTHZ, 1971

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: 1♂: West-Papua , Cyclops Mountains, 2°32’10.52"S 140°30’46.71"E, 440 m, loamy and mossy wall, stream, 18.05.2019 ; 1♂: West-Papua , Foja Mountains, 2°26’27.87"S 138°46’27.283, 280 m, Timua river, small loamy waterfall, 27.05.2019 ; 3♀♀: West-Papua , Foja Mountains, 2°28’18.14"S 138°46’27.98"E, 350 m, Timua river, loamy bluish grey wall, 29.05.2019 .

This species was collected together with S. attenboroughi nov.sp. in the Cyclops Mountains, where it lives in the same habitat. In the Foja Mountains it was only collected on bluish grey loamy walls in the valley of the Timua river, where it lives together with S. balkei and S. prismalis .