Chandlerea Park & Carlton, 2015

Park, Jong-Seok & Carlton, Christopher E., 2015, Chandlerea and Nunnea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), two new genera from New Zealand with descriptions of three new species, Florida Entomologist 98 (2), pp. 588-588 : 588

Key Words: taxonomy; biogeography; Faronitae ; Faronini Resumen

Se describen dos nuevos géneros y tres nuevas especies de escarabajos estafilínidos pselaphine endémicas de Nueva Zelanda que pertenecen a la supertribu Faronitae de la siguiente manera: Chandlerea Park & Carlton , gen. nov., incluyendo C. donaldi Park & Carlton , sp. nov.; y Nunnea Park & Carlton , gen. nov., incluyendo N. johni Park & Carlton , sp. nov., y N. kuscheli Park & Carlton , sp. nov. Se proveen una clave para las especies, fotografas del habitus, dibujos de los caracteres diagnósticos y mapas de distribución de todas las especies.

Palabras Clave: taxonomía; biogeografa; Faronitae ; Faronini

During an examination of museum specimens from the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, IL, USA) and New Zealand Arthropod Collection (Auckland, New Zealand), we noticed 3 distinct mor- pho-types within the supertribe Faronitae ( Coleoptera : Staphylinidae : Pselaphinae ) possessing enlarged abdominal segments VI, a character that has previously been used to characterize genus boundaries ( Park & Carlton 2013, 2014). Based on morphological study, these morpho-species also have different foveal patterns, and cannot be assigned to other existing faronite genera. Moreover, one morpho-species can be easily separated from the others by the presence of enlarged male antennomeres 7, anterior frontal fovea on the anterior-dorsal aspect of the head, and the absence of basolateral fovea on abdominal sternites V–VI. Based on these features, we describe 2 new genera, Chandlerea gen. nov. and Nunnea gen. nov., and 3 new species, C. donaldi sp. nov., N. johni sp. nov. and N. kuscheli sp. nov.