Sagola boothi Park and Carlton, new species
Creators: name: Park, J. - S.
name: Carlton, C. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sagola
Sagola boothi

description: Sagola boothi Park and Carlton, new species
(Figs. 66d, 66j, 66r, 67)
Type Material. Holotype. NEW ZEALAND: Auckland: 1♂ (NZAC), aedeagus dissected and mounted in balsam on a clear plastic card, “ NEW ZEALAND AK Bethells Matuku Reserve 23 Jun 1987 R. C. Craw ”, “Sifted rotten wood 87/9”, “ N.Z. Arthropod Collection, NZAC Private Bag 92170 AUCKLAND New Zealand”, “ HOLOTYPE Sagola boothi Park and Carlton 2013 ”. Paratypes (n = 4: 3 males; 1 female). NEW ZEALAND: Auckland: 1♂ (NZAC), same data as holotype; 1♂ 1♀ (DSC), Matuku Reserve, 45m, 6.5km w Waitakere end of Jonker’ s Road, 2–5 IV 2010, L. Masner, yellow pan traps; 1♂ (AMNZ), Waitakere Ra, Karekare, 14 II 2000, Wasp Survey, malaise trap.
Etymology. This species is named for one of the enthusiastic supporters of this study, Roger G. Booth. He assisted with type examinations and access to specimens during the first author’ s visit to the Natural History Museum, London.
Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from the other species of the major species-group by the following combination of characters: body length 1.8–2.0 mm; eye large, two-thirds length of temple; ventral temple of male head with depressed and projecting temporal lobe, surface concave; shape of antennomeres and genitalia unique to species; only known from Auckland.
Description. Length 1.8–2.0 mm. Body brown, antennae, legs, maxillary palpi, and elytra paler (Fig. 66d). Head: Male head triangular, widest across temples (Fig. 66d). Female head bluntly triangular, widest across eyes. Ventral temple of male head with depressed and projecting temporal lobe and surface concave (Fig. 66r). Thick, dense setae on male gular depression. Antennomere 1 approximately 1.5 times longer than wide, 2 longer than wide, 3 subquadrate, 4 longer than wide, 5–10 subquadrate. Frontal sulcus shallow, reaching midpoint of eye. Anterior frontal fovea oval, partially covered by frontal rostrum, posterior frontal fovea oval. Eye large and prominent, two-thirds length of temple. Thorax: Prosternum as long as wide, widest at one-third length. Elytra rectangular (Fig. 66d). Meso- and metathorax trapezoidal, longer than wide. Abdomen: Tergite IV with pair of transverse patches of microtrichia reaching middle, patches absent in female. Aedeagus: Median lobe of genitalia broader apically with long process dorsally and membranous tube extending from apex (Fig. 66j). Phallobase of median lobe symmetrical and rounded (Fig. 66j). Parameres symmetrical, broader than median lobe, setose from midpoints to apices (Fig. 66j).
Distribution. Auckland (Fig. 67: star).
Habitat. Specimens of this species were collected using yellow pan and Malaise traps or by sifting rotten wood.
description: Published as part of Park, J. - S. & Carlton, C. E., 2014, A revision of the New Zealand species of the genus Sagola Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Faronitae), pp. 1-156 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 13) (mo 13) 68 on pages 121-122, DOI: 10.1649/072.068.0mo4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4907735