Brounea chorui, Park, Jong-Seok & Carlton, Christopher E., 2015

Park, Jong-Seok & Carlton, Christopher E., 2015, Brounea, a new genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from New Zealand, with descriptions of nine new species, Zootaxa 3990 (4), pp. 551-566 : 558

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.4.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A171FB7E-150D-4741-8045-A9BAE861B1C0
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6112098
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2CFE509D-4A94-4D4F-B08E-A1281D3BE1B5
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:2CFE509D-4A94-4D4F-B08E-A1281D3BE1B5
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Brounea chorui
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Brounea chorui View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 d, 2d, 2o, 3d, 4)

Type material. Holotype. New Zealand: Northland ( ND): ♂ ( NZAC), aedeagus dissected and mounted in balsam on clear plastic card, “ NEW ZEALAND ND Waipoua SF Toronui Track 20 Oct 1980 G.Kuschel”, “Sifted decayed wood 80/96”, “N.Z. Arthropod Collection, NZAC Private Bag 92170 AUCKLAND New Zealand ”, “ HOLOTYPE Brounea chorui Park and Carlton des. 2013”. Paratypes (2♂). New Zealand: Northland ( ND): 1♂, Dargaville, 18 VI 1951, Orlando Park Collection, p73 ( FMNH); 1♂ (slide-mounted), Waipoua Forest, Waipoua stm, 70m, 17 III 1978, S. Peck, J. Peck, berl., frass under bark kauri log ( FMNH).

Etymology. This species is named for Kee-Jeong Ahn lab alumnus, chrysomelid beetle specialist, and an enthusiastic supporter of this study, Mr. Choru Shin.

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from the other species of Brounea by the following combination of characters: small body, length 1.2–1.4 mm; eye small, one-third length of temple ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 d); male head weakly swollen ventrally ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 o); antennomeres 3–8 subquadrate, 9–10 weakly transverse; median lobe longer than parameres with acute apical lobe ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 d).

Description of male. Length 1.2–1.4 mm. Body yellowish brown, elytra, legs, antennae and maxillary palpi paler ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 d). Head. Head bluntly triangular, widest across temples ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 d), weakly swollen ventrally ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 o). Antennomeres 1–2 elongate, 3–10 subquadrate, 9–10 weakly transverse. Frontal sulcus shallow, reaching to midpoint of eye from apex of rostrum ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 d). Anterior and posterior frontal fovea small and round. Eye small, onethird length of temple. Thorax. Prosternum longer than wide, widest at one-third length. Elytra rectangular ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 d). Hind wings well-developed. Meso- and metaventrites together trapezoidal in ventral view, longer than wide. Abdomen. Abdominal tergite IV with pair of transverse patches of microtrichia. Aedeagus. Median lobe longer than parameres with acute apical lobe ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 d). Phallobase symmetrical and rounded ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 d). Parameres symmetrical with setae at tip, weakly narrower at distal one-third ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 d).