Scaphisoma sp.

Löbl, Ivan, 2015, On the Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Revue suisse de Zoologie 122 (1), pp. 75-120 : 113-115

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.14582

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1DD348B0-2E77-4597-9844-3405D65874E4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7274633

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/082787E8-FF81-FFE7-CD25-9CF3FDFAFD44

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scientific name

Scaphisoma sp.
status

 

Scaphisoma sp.

Material examined: SMNS; 1 ♀; Indonesia, Bali 12 km NW of Bedugul ( Buyan lake ) 29.Apr.-2.May 2001 Bolm lgt., 900 m.

Comments: This is one of the larger Indonesian species of Scaphisoma . It is 1.90 mm long, 1.25 mm wide and has conspicuous colour pattern and antennae: the elytra are as the pronotum very dark around margins, most of the elytral disc is covered by light, reddish, somewhat oblique spot. The antennomeres III and IV are minute, much narrower, and combined much shorter than V. In addition, the species is characterized by the sutural striae of elytra extending along bases to form basal striae reaching beyond elytral basal width, in combination with very finely punctate ventral side of the body and strigulate abdominal microsculpture.

SMNS

Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkund Stuttgart

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

SubFamily

Scaphidiinae

Genus

Scaphisoma

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