Oedichirus cuccodoroi Rougemont 2018, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Rougemont, Guillaume de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oedichirus
Oedichirus cuccodoroi

description: Oedichirus cuccodoroi nov.sp. (Figs 8)
♂ Holotype: MADAGASCAR Mt Ambre, 3 km NE N.P. camp site, 12°33’09"S 49°09’40"E, 1300 m, 28.ii.2003, #3a, G. Cuccodoro ♀ HOLOTYPE Oedichirus cuccodoroi des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [MHNG]; 5 Paratypes: Ibid. ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus cuccodoroi des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [MHNG, 2 paratypes in CRO]; 5 paratypes: MADAGASCAR Mt Ambre, 2,5 km SE N.P. camp site, 12°31’15"S 49°11’40"E, 950 m, 03.iii.2003 #12a, G. Cuccodoro ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus cuccodoroi des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [MNHG]; 7 paratypes: MADAGASCAR Mt Ambre, 0,5 km NE N.P. camp site, 12°31’50"S 49°10’35"E, 1000 m, 01.iii.2003 #4a, G. Cuccodoro ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus cuccodoroi des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [MHNG, 2 paratypes in CRO]; 2 paratypes: MADAGASCAR Mt Ambre, 1,5 km NE N.P. camp site, 12°32’05"S 49°10’40"E, 950 m, 03.iii.2003 #6a, G. Cuccodoro ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus cuccodoroi des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [MHNG]; 2 paratypes: MADAGASCAR Mt Ambre, 1 km NW N.P. camp site, 12°31’55"S 49°10’32"E, 950 m, 02.iii.2003 #5, G. Cuccodoro ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus cuccodoroi des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [MHNG]; 5 paratypes: MADAGASCAR Ankarana N.P. near bats cave, 1357’31"S 4907’11"E, 150 m, 09.iii.2003, #11c, G. Cuccodoro ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus cuccodoroi des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [MHNG].
D e s c r i p t i o n: length: 5.5 mm; length of fore-body: 2.3; length of head: 0.65; breadth of head: 0.75; length of antenna: 1.3; length of pronotum: 0.87; breadth of pronotum: 0.75; length of elytron: 0.64; breadth of elytra: 0.85. Body reddish-brown, the centre of each abdominal tergite more or less and increasingly broadly blackish; mouthparts, antennae and legs testaceous. Head and pronotum densely microsculptate, the surface therefore somewhat matt; elytra with very superficial, scarcely evident microsculpture; transverse depressed area behind anterior margin of each abdominal tergite rugosely microsculptate, dull, the rest of tergites with fine microsculpture consisting of transverse striae. Body almost glabrous, with only a few very sparse short hairs. Habitus: Fig. 8.
Head not strongly transverse; eyes prominent but not very large, temples long, coarctate with base; post-ocular carina fine but distinct, extending anteriad to under posterior margin of eye following curve of temples, without forming any angle; punctures large, dense, not forming any discernible pattern. Pronotum rather short, sides rounded between anterior angles and base; lateral margin entirely bordered by a carina which is visible around the anterior angles in dorsal view; punctures very coarse, arranged in a pair of discal series of 3-4 large punctures preceded by a cluster of six punctures, two lateral punctures and two or three smaller punctures above carina of lateral margin. Micropterous, elytra small, only as broad as pronotum, humeral angles completely obsolete; surface of disc uneven, with large, irregular shallow punctures. Punctuation of abdominal tergites dense, coarse, disposed randomly, all interstices narrower than diameter of punctures.
Male: sternite VIII: Fig. 8s8; aedoeagus: Figs 8arl, av.
Female: vulvar plate: Fig. 8vp.
In LECOQ’ s key (1986), section I, this species runs to O. foveicollis QUEDENFELD, but the aedoeagus, in particular the shape of the anterior process of the ventral plate, is quite different.
description: Published as part of Rougemont, Guillaume de, 2018, New species and records of African and Lemurian Oedichirus ERICHSON (Staphylinidae, Paederinae, Procirrina), pp. 447-460 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on pages 453-454, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5778202