Prespelea enigma Caterino & Vasquez-Velez

Caterino, Michael S. & Vasquez-Velez, Laura M., 2017, Corrigenda: Caterino M, Vasquez-Velez L (2017) A revision of Prespelea Park (Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae). ZooKeys 685: 105 - 130. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 685.13811, ZooKeys 688, pp. 151-152 : 152

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.688.19867

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/90333F47-56DC-4539-866F-AA6868E7EE45

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Prespelea enigma Caterino & Vasquez-Velez
status

sp. n.

Prespelea enigma Caterino & Vasquez-Velez View in CoL sp. n.

Type material.

Holotype male: USA: NC: Macon Co., Jones Gap, 35.0785°N, 83.2923°W, S. Myers, vii.22.2015, sifted litter (CUAC000026531, DNA Extract MSC-2403); deposited in FMNH. Other material: 4 males & 6 females, NC: Macon Co., 11 mi. SW Franklin, Back Country info center, VIII-17/21-1990, hardwood litter nr. dead logs, S. O’Keefe; UNHC, FMNH, CUAC. 1 female: NC: Macon Co. Highlands, vi.8.1973, Coker Rhododendron Trail, litter under rhododendron, W. Suter; FMNH.

Diagnosis.

This species is externally indistinguishable from P. copelandi except in the following male characters: metaventrite elevated anteromedially to form small but distinct median tubercle about one-fourth metaventral length behind mesocoxae (Fig. 21), metaventrite moderately flattened behind; posteroapical corner of male metatrochanter produced to form short, incurved flange (Fig. 32), the whole trochanter being somewhat parallelogram-shaped; aedeagus with sides weakly sinuate toward apex, apicodorsal ridges weakly divergent to apical corners; apical margin subtruncate to weakly emarginate; internal sac with broad band of about 18 short, sclerotized teeth. Female not definitely associated. TL 1.76-1.88mm; Max. width (EW) 0.61-0.71mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

SubFamily

Pselaphinae

Tribe

Speleobamini

Genus

Prespelea