Paraphloeostiba brevicula Shavrin, 2024

Shavrin, Alexey V., 2025, A new species and records of Paraphloeostiba Steel, 1860 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae), Zootaxa 5728 (3), pp. 571-578 : 572

Paraphloeostiba brevicula Shavrin, 2024

Paraphloeostiba brevicula Shavrin, 2024b: 592 .

Material. SOLOMON ISLANDS: 9 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀: Guadalcanal, Mt.Austen. 24.11.1964. P. Greenslade leg. ( BMNH) ; 1 ♀: same data. 24.04- 03.05.1965. ( BMNH) ; 1 ♀: San Cristoval, confluence of Warahito and Pagato rivers. Rotten wood and forest litter. 07.1965. P.N. Lawrence leg. ( BMNH) ; 1 ♂: San Cristoval , 7 mls. S Wainoni. At light. 24.07.65. P.N. Lawrence leg. ( BMNH) ; 1 ♂: same data, ca 7 mls. S Wainoni. Arborial litter. 30.07- 02.08.1965. I. & P.N. Lawrence leg. <‘ Associated Adult / Larvae Coll. Tube 5’> ( BMNH) ; 1 ♀: Popamanasiu. Alt. 5700`ft., forest litter 08- 09.11.1965. P.N. Lawrence leg. <‘ Associated Adult / Larvae Coll. Tube 42’> ( BMNH) ; 1 ♂: Umasani River , 6 mls. SW Tamboko. On Areca macrocalyx . 07- 10.07.1965. P.N. Lawrence leg. ( BMNH) .

Remarks. Paraphloeostiba brevicula was recently described from the eastern part of Papua New Guinea ( Shavrin 2024b). It is here recorded from Solomon Islands for the first time.