Ischyroceros mirus Reichensperger, 1915

Hlaváč, Peter & Baňař, Petr, 2020, New species of Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Malawi and South Africa, Zootaxa 4877 (3), pp. 587-597 : 596-597

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4877.3.10

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F505C951-BC54-48C9-A195-3C78CD3A2320

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4425164

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/87398788-2A07-FFFD-FF5C-F8FDAEFAFDE1

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Plazi

scientific name

Ischyroceros mirus Reichensperger, 1915
status

 

Ischyroceros mirus Reichensperger, 1915 View in CoL

( Figs 13–14 View FIGURES 7–14 )

Material examined. 1 ♂, 2 ♀: (p) MALAWI, Mt. Mulanje, Likhubula Forest Lodge, S15 o 56’15.7’’ E35 o 35’4.9’’, 18-20.xi. 2018, 827 m, P. Hlaváč & P. Baňař lgt. ( PCPH) GoogleMaps .

Note. Ischyroceros mirus is the only species of the genus which was described more than 100 years ago from Dukudu [most probably Dukuduku], KwaZulu Natal (The Republic of South Africa) after one specimen of the unknown sex collected in the nest of the ant Pheidole punctatissima Mayr, 1870 . This record with the habitus drawing was later published twice by Jeannel (1955, 1964) and the possibility that the genus can belong to the newly erected tribe Lunillini was discussed by Célis (1969). The second record has been recently published again from KwaZulu Natal ( Nakládal & Hlaváč, 2018). The species is here recorded for the first time outside of the teritory of The Re-public of South Africa. New genus and species to Malawi.

Biology. All three specimens collected in Malawi were collected by sifting of leaf-litter in a remnant of mountainous forest. Sifted specimens were extracted using Winkler apparatus.

Host ant. Pheidole punctatissima Mayr, 1870 .

Distribution. Republic of South Africa (KwaZulu Natal), Malawi.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

SubFamily

Pselaphinae

SuperTribe

Clavigeritae

Genus

Ischyroceros

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