Stenichnus (Stenichnus) pollens (Sharp)

Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2023, New species and new records of Eastern Palaearctic Stenichnus Thomson (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), Zootaxa 5318 (3), pp. 363-381 : 374-376

Stenichnus (Stenichnus) pollens (Sharp)

( Fig. 39 )

Scydmaenus pollens Sharp, 1886: 49 . Redescribed by Jałoszyński (2004): 169.

Material studied. JAPAN, Saga Prefecture: 2 ♁♁, 2 ♀♀, Mt. Hobashiradake, Tara-chô , 600 m, 10.06.2021, FIT, leg. Mitsuyasu Nishida ( NSMT, cPJ) ; Nara Prefecture: 1 ♁, Nara City, Nara Park , 24.03.2006, leg. T. Lackner (cPJ) .

Distribution. Japan: Honshu, Kyushu.

Remarks. This species was described nearly 140 years ago based on a single male collected in Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu; here for the first time recorded from Honshu. It is a large-bodied Stenichnus , with adults slightly exceeding 2 mm in length, and can be identified by unique aedeagal structures (illustrated in Jałoszyński (2004): fig. 6 A–C).

Figures

FIGURES 39–40. Dorsal habitus of male. Stenichnus pollens (Sharp) (39); Stenichnus minipollens Jałoszyński (40).