Scydmaenilla (Scydmaenilla)

Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2013, Revision of subgenera of Stenichnus Thomson, with review of Australo-Pacific species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), Zootaxa 3630 (1), pp. 39-79 : 77

Scydmaenilla (Scydmaenilla) sp.

( Figs. 84–92 )

Material studied. Ƥ: three labels ( Fig. 88 ): " Australia / 1912-22 " [white, printed, first line underlined in pink], "Sydney / Lea" [white, printed], " Scydmaenilla / pusilla King / A.M.Lea det." [white, printed and handwritten in black] (NHM).

Remarks. This is a species erroneously identified as S. pusilla by Lea, and later Franz's (1975) redescription was also based on the same misidentified specimen. Lea (1910) mentioned that S. pusilla was collected in nests of an ant Pachycondyla lutea (Mayr) (as Ponera ) and certainly this information refers to the misidentified Scydmaenilla sp. Although this is a remarkably slender and flattened Scydmaenilla s. str. clearly different from all other congeners, I refrain from a formal description of a new species until a male has been found.

Figures

FIGURES 84 – 88. Scydmaenilla (s. str.) sp. (misidentified by Lea and Franz as S. pusilla), female. Dorsal (84) and left lateral (85) habitus, head in frontal view (86), mesoventral intercoxal process in left lateral view (87), original set of labels (88). Abbreviations: cl, clypeus; fr, frons; lb, labrum; lp, labial palp; md, mandible; mtap, metaventral anterior process; msvp, mesoventral intercoxal process; vt, vertex.

FIGURES 89 – 92. Scydmaenilla (s. str.) sp. (misidentified by Lea and Franz as S. pusilla), female. Venter (89), head in ventral view (90), prothorax in ventral view (91), pterothorax in ventral view (92). Abbreviations: aest 3, metanepisternum; ai, asetose impression of mesoventrite; ar, anterior ridge; bs, basisternal part of prosternum; bst, basistipes; cd, cerdo; cx 3, metacoxa; fo, foramen occipitale; gal, galea; gp, gular plate; gs, gular suture; h, hypostoma; hr, hypostomal ridge; hy, hypomeron; lac, lacinia; lb, labrum; lp, labial palp; lpi, lateral prosternal impression; lss, lateral suture of submentum; mcp, mesocoxal projection; md, mandible; mn, mentum; mscc, mesocoxal cavity; msff, mesofurcal fovea; msvp, mesoventral intercoxal process; mtap, metaventral anterior process; mtfa, metafurcal arm; mtvp, metaventral intercoxal process; nss, notosternal suture; occ, occipital constriction; pcc, procoxal cavity; pcs, procoxal socket; pmn, prementum; pre, prepectus; smn, submentum; tm, temple; v 3, metaventrite.