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

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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