Oligota pusillima ( Gravenhorst, 1806 )

Pace, Roberto, 2007, New genera and new species of the subfamily Aleocharinae from Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64, pp. 13-21 : 13-16

Oligota pusillima ( Gravenhorst, 1806)

Figures 1–3

Aleochara pusillima Gravenhorst, 1806: 175

Oligota pusillima : Thomson, 1860: 262

Material examined. 3 and 3, Midwa, October 2004, Cra farms A1910, David Sharley; 1 and 2, Berri, S. Australia 20296, Oligota asperiventris? Fvl. South Australian Museum; 2 and 1, Kempton, Tas.: Lea 9508, asperiventris ? Tas., South Australian Museum; 1, Adelaide, Blackburn, 6994 Ad., asperiventris Fvl. , South Australian Museum; 1, Swan R., Lea, 1738, South Australian Museum.

Note. It is very probable that O. asperiventris Fauvel, 1878 is a junior synonym of O. pusillima .

Distribution. Cosmopolitan species with a possible role in biological control of pest mites (M.G. Paoletti in litt.).

Figures

Figures 1–9. Habitus, aedeagus in lateral and ventral view, spermatheca, maxilla with maxillary palpus and labium with labial palpus. 1–3: Oligota pusillima (Gravenhorst, 1806), specimens from Australia; 4–9: Leptostiba paolettii n. sp. Scale bars habitus: fig. 1 = 1.2 mm, fig. 4 = 2.1 mm. Other scale bars = 0.1 mm.