Octavius crucialis ( Kistner, 1967 )

Janák, Jiří, 2024, On Octavius from Maloti-Drakensberg and Golden Gate National Parks, South Africa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Euaesthetinae), Zootaxa 5443 (4), pp. 495-522 : 499

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.4.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A91A8D67-A81B-427D-8096-59E41326A8E3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11074165

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CB87B7-E95A-FFF5-F2CF-FC6BFAE9FA28

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Plazi

scientific name

Octavius crucialis ( Kistner, 1967 )
status

 

Octavius crucialis ( Kistner, 1967) View in CoL

Figs. 16–20 View FIGURES 16–28 , 120 View FIGURES 113–121 , 127 View FIGURES 122–127

Turellus crucialis Kistner, 1967: 57 View in CoL ,

Octavius crucialis View in CoL ; Puthz, 1980: 27; Puthz, 1986: 200; Herman, 2001: 1857.

Type locality. South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Province, Maloti-Drakensberg Park, Cathedral Peak National Reserve, Ogalweni forest .

Material examined (33 specimens). SOUTH AFRICA, KwaZulu-Natal: 15 ♂, 18 ♀: Maloti-Drakensberg Park , Cathedral Peak NR , Oqualweni Fern forest ; 28°56.6ʼS, 29°11.0ʼE, 1570m, 7.i.2019, J. Janák lgt., Berlese extraction, leaf & log litter, sifting ( TMSA, JJRC) .

Distribution. The species is known only from Ogalweni (= Oqualweni Fern) forest in Drakensberg Mountains, KwaZulu-Natal Province ( Fig. 120 View FIGURES 113–121 ).

Bionomics. All specimens were collected in siftings of forest litter in a patch of an indigenous forest at the elevation of about 1600 m a.s.l. with the abundance of 2.1 specimens per kg of sifted material ( Fig. 127 View FIGURES 122–127 ).

TMSA

South Africa, Gauteng, Pretoria, Transvaal Museum

TMSA

Transvaal Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

SubFamily

Euaesthetinae

Genus

Octavius

Loc

Octavius crucialis ( Kistner, 1967 )

Janák, Jiří 2024
2024
Loc

Octavius crucialis

Herman, L. H. 2001: 1857
Puthz, V. 1986: 200
Puthz, V. 1980: 27
1980
Loc

Turellus crucialis

Kistner, D. H. 1967: 57
1967
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