Scaphisoma hiekei LÖBL , 1972

Ivan Löbl & Ryo Ogawa, 2016, On the Scaphisomatini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae) of the Philippines, IV: the genera Sapitia ACHARD and Scaphisoma LEACH, Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (2), pp. 1339-1492 : 1408

5.2.18.2. Scaphisoma hiekei LÖBL, 1972

Scaphisoma hiekei LÖBL 1972: 93, 94, Figs 32, 33. Holotype 6, ZMUB; type locality: Palawan, Binaluan.

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Palawan, Roxas, region of Matalangao, 80 m, 5.IV.1983, leg, S. Nagai & C. Lienhard, 83/86, 2 ex. (MHNG); Palawan, Matalangao nr. Roxas, 150 m, 29.VIII.1985, leg. M. Sakai, 2 ex. (EUMJ, MHNG).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Philippines: Palawan.

Comments: The species may be readily distinguished by the pronotum with oblique lateral margins and lateral carinae well visible in dorsal view, the pronotal punctures conspicuously coarse and dense, to part as large as or larger than puncture intervals, and the antennomere III about as long as IV, both combined as long as antennomere V. Diagnostic for the species is also the shape of the median lobe of the aedeagus, with the apical process strongly bent and vertical near tip to aedeagal axis.