Scydmaenilla King

Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2015, Revision of the genus Stenichnaphes Franz in New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), Zootaxa 3915 (2), pp. 250-262 : 258

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.2.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C73C82EC-861F-40C9-B1C7-06F3279FF879

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5680893

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AAAB48-FFCB-FFE2-D3D6-FB97FBEAC74C

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scientific name

Scydmaenilla King
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Genus Scydmaenilla King View in CoL

Scydmaenilla King, 1864: 93 View in CoL . Type species: Scydmaenilla pusilla King, 1864 View in CoL (monotypy). Reduced to subgenus of Stenichnus View in CoL by Franz (1975), reinstated by Jałoszyński (2013b).

Scydmaenilla View in CoL comprises Cyrtoscydmini View in CoL with the following combination of characters: eyes located posteriorly; occipital constriction nearly as broad as vertex; frontoclypeal groove absent; mandible with subapical tooth; submentum with lateral sutures; hypostomal ridges present and complete; posterior tentorial pits hidden in groove between submentum and gular plate; antennae with variously distinct 3-segmented club; pronotum with one pair of lateral antebasal pits connected by transverse groove, with variously distinct lateral marginal carinae visible in posterior half; prosternum with narrow basisternal part; procoxal cavities separated in middle by fine carina; hypomeral ridges absent; mesoventrite with asetose impressions (= procoxal rests) separated in middle; mesoventral intercoxal process carinate, moderately projecting ventrally, with distinct posterior tip separated from metaventrite; metaventrite with anterior metaventral process, with short and broad metaventral intercoxal process bearing median notch; and aedeagus with free parameres.

This set of characters, so far known only in Australian species, was found in Stenichnaphes newtoni from New Zealand. The exception is the antenna rather gradually thickened and not with a distinct club, but already in Scydmaenilla (Scydmaenillunia) View in CoL the club is indistinctly delimited and this character can be excluded from the diagnosis of Scydmaenilla View in CoL . Stenichnaphes newtoni is here transferred to Scydmaenilla View in CoL , but several differences in relation to previously known subgenera justify its separate placement in a new subgenus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Loc

Scydmaenilla King

Jałoszyński, Paweł 2015
2015
Loc

Scydmaenilla

King 1864: 93
1864
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