Cordalia
Creators: name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
name: Newton, Alfred F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Cordalia

description: Cordalia
Cordalia Jacobs 1925: 82 (new name for Cardiola Mulsant & Rey). Type species: Aleochara obscura Gravenhorst, 1802, by autotypy.
= Cardiola Mulsant & Rey 1873b: 6 (preoccupied, not Broderip 1834; without description). Type species: Aleochara obscura Gravenhorst, 1802, by monotypy.
Notes: Cordalia includes 50 valid species that are widely distributed in Eurasia and Africa, one of which is also adventive in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
Cordalia obscura (Gravenhorst 1802)
Aleochara obscura Gravenhorst 1802: 74. Type locality: [Brunswick, Germany]. Type depository: ZMHB? #?ST. Note: Diagnosis, notes, Klimaszewski et al. (2013); New Zealand, ex Nelson 1965 (NZAC). Distribution: Europe, Russia (European, northern Africa, Canary Is., Madeira, Azores, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Israel, Iran, Uzbekistan; India; intro Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand (NN (intro)).
Falagria Leach 1819
Falagria Leach 1819: 177. Type species: Staphylinus sulcatus Paykull, 1789 (= Falagria caesa Erichson, 1837), by original designation.
Notes: In its current somewhat restricted concept, Falagria includes 47 valid species worldwide, with a single species endemic to New Zealand.
Falagria subopaca Broun 1893
Falagria subopaca Broun 1893: 1405. Type locality: Maketu, Hunua Range. Type depository: BMNH LT (designated below). Distribution: New Zealand (AK,ND).
Remarks. Broun did not specify the number of specimens he examined for naming this species, one specimen was
located in the BMNH. In order to stabilize this name a lectotype is here designated from material of Falagria
subopaca.
Type material examined. Lectotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “ Type [round label with red border] // 2449. [in
Broun’s hand] // Hunua Maketu. [in Broun’s hand] // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922 -
482. // Falagria subopaca [in Broun’s hand]”.
Galafria Cameron 1945
Galafria Cameron 1945: 164. Type species: Galafria rufa Cameron, 1945, by monotypy. Notes: The genus Galafria is endemic to New Zealand, with a single species.
Galafria rufa Cameron 1945
Galafria rufa Cameron 1945: 164. Type locality: New Zealand: Howick. Type depository: BMNH HT. Distribution: New Zealand (AK).
Remarks. Cameron based his description on a single specimen which we have confirmed as the holotype.
Type material examined. Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “n. sp. [underlined in red, in Cameron’s hand] //
Howick Deer.1885. [in Cameron’s hand] // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922 -482. //
Galafria rufa Cam TYPE [in Cameron’s hand, “ type ” in red ink] // Holo-type [round label with red border] ”.
Myrmecocephalus MacLeay, W. J. 1871
Myrmecocephalus MacLeay, W. J. 1871: 134. Type species: Myrmecocephalus cingulatus MacLeay, W. J., 1871
(= Myrmecocephalus australicus (Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926)), designated by Blackwelder (1952: 253). = Stilicioides Broun 1880: 95. Type species: Stilicioides micans Broun, 1880, by monotypy. Notes: Myrmecocephalus, often treated as a subgenus of Falagria, includes about 118 valid species worldwide,
with one endemic and one adventive species in New Zealand.
Myrmecocephalus concinnus (Erichson 1839)
Falagria concinna Erichson 1839: 51. Type locality: Brasilia. Type depository: ZMHB? #?ST. Note: New Zealand (as Falagria concinna), Kuschel (1990), Sivasubramaniam et al. (1997); as Falagria (Leptagria) in Pace key (not text) (2008a: 275). Distribution: Europe, Azores, Algeria, Canary Is., Madeira, Russia (Far East), Japan, China, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Grenada, St. Vincent, Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion; intro Galapagos Is., New Zealand (AK; MC (intro)).
Myrmecocephalus micans (Broun 1880)
Stilicioides micans Broun 1880: 96. Type locality: Tairua; near Whangarei. Type depository: BMNH LT (designated below). Distribution: New Zealand (CL,ND,TO;NC).
Remarks. Broun described this species based on “several specimens”; one was located in the BMNH (the
remaining specimens were collected in 1910 and 1912). In order to stabilize this name a lectotype is here
designated for this syntype of Stilicioides micans.
Type material examined. Lectotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “ Type [round label with red border] // 176. [green
label] // Tairua // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Falagria micans. [in Broun’s
hand]”.
Myrmecopora Saulcy 1865
Myrmecopora Saulcy 1865: 429. Type species: Myrmecopora publicana Saulcy, 1865, by monotypy. Notes: Myrmecopora includes 41 valid, mainly Old World, species, with a single endemic species in New Zealand.
Myrmecopora paradoxa Bernhauer 1943
Myrmecopora (Xenusa) paradoxa Bernhauer 1943: 170. Type locality: Jitirangi [=Titirangi]. Type depository: FMNH LT, 1PLT; BMNH 1PLT (designated below). Distribution: New Zealand (AK,CL).
Remarks. Bernhauer did not indicate the number of specimens and three were located in the BMNH and FMNH.
In order to stabilize this name a lectotype and two paralectotypes are here designated from the syntypes of
Myrmecopora (Xenusa) paradoxa.
Type material examined. Lectotype (FMNH): card-mounted, “ New Zealand Broun Coll. Bt. Mus. 1922 [in
Bernhauer’s hand] // Titirangi 21.3.1913 [in Bernhauer’s hand] // Myrmecopora paradoxa Bh. Bernhauer det. Type
[in Bernhauer’s hand, partly printed] // BRIT. MUS. DON. ARROW // paradoxa Brnh. Typus Xenusa [in
Bernhauer’s hand, red label] //Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Collection // SYNTYPE teste D. J. Clarke2014 GDI
Imaging Project [violet label] // Photographed Kelsey Keaton 2014 Emu Catalog [blue label] // FMNHINS
2819133 FIELD MUSEUM [barcode label]”. Paralectotypes: 1 (FMNH) card-mounted: “ New Zealand Broun
Coll. Bt. Mus. 1922 [in Bernhauer’s hand] // Barrier 10.4.1917 [in Bernhauer’s hand] // BRIT. MUS. DON.
ARROW // paradoxa Brnh. Cotypus Xenusa [in Bernhauer’s hand, red label] //Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer
Collection // SYNTYPE teste D. J. Clarke2014 GDI Imaging Project [violet label]”; 1 (BMNH) card-mounted:
“ Type [round label with red border] // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Titirangi
21.3.1913 [in Broun’s hand] // Myrmecopora paradoxa Brh. Bernhauer det. Type. [in Bernhauer’s hand, partly
printed]”.
Plesiosipalia Bernhauer 1943
Plesiosipalia Bernhauer 1943: 173. Type species: Plesiosipalia arrowi Bernhauer, 1943, by monotypy. Notes: The genus Plesiosipalia is endemic to New Zealand, with a single valid species.
Plesiosipalia arrowi Bernhauer 1943
Plesiosipalia arrowi Bernhauer 1943: 174. Type locality: Pudding. Type depository: BMNH LT; FMNH 1PLT (designated below). Distribution: New Zealand (MC).
Remarks. Bernhauer did not indicate the number of specimens and two were located in the BMNH and FMNH. In
order to stabilize this name a lectotype and one paralectotype are here designated from this material of
Plesiosipalia arrowi.
Type material examined. Lectotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “ Type [round label with red border] // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Pudding 13-4-1913. [in Broun’s hand] // Plesiosipalia arrowi Brnh. Brh. Bernhauer det. Type n.g. [in Bernhauer’s hand, partly printed]”. Paralectotype (FMNH): cardmounted (missing left antenna and right middle tarsus, female? Terminalia in balsam on acetate card), “ New Zealand Broun Coll. Bt. Mus. 1922 [in Bernhauer’s hand] // Pudding 13.4.1913. [in Broun’s hand] // Plesiosipalia arrowi Brnh. Typ. [in Bernhauer’s hand] Bernhauer det. // BRIT. MUS. DON. ARROW // Arrowi Brnh. Typus Plesiosipalia [in Bernhauer’s hand, red label] // sp. gen. [in Broun’s hand] // Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Collection // Plesiosipalia arrowi BERNH. Det. R. Pace 1984 [in Pace’s hand, partly printed] // SYNTYPE teste D. J. Clarke2014 GDI Imaging Project [violet label] // Photographed Kelsey Keaton 2014 Emu Catalog [blue label] // FMNHINS 2819101 FIELD MUSEUM [barcode label]”.
description: Published as part of Leschen, Richard A. B. & Newton, Alfred F., 2015, Checklist and type designations of New Zealand Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), pp. 301-353 in Zootaxa 4028 (3) on pages 315-317, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237988