Brounea yoonhoi Park & Carlton, 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Park, Jong-Seok
name: Carlton, Christopher E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Brounea
Brounea yoonhoi

description: Brounea yoonhoi sp. nov.
(Figs. 1 c, 2c, 2n, 3c, 4)
Type material. Holotype. New Zealand: Taupo (TO): ♂ (NZAC), aedeagus dissected and mounted in balsam on clear plastic card, “ NEW ZEALAND TO Waituhi Saddle Rd, 670m 9 Oct 1979 J.S.Dugdale”, “Litter and bryophytes 79/92”, “N.Z. Arthropod Collection, NZAC Private Bag 92170 AUCKLAND New Zealand ”, “ HOLOTYPE Brounea yoonhoi Park and Carlton des. 2013”. Paratypes (n=48; 23♂, 25♀). New Zealand: Auckland (AK): 7♂, 11♀, Lynfield, 23 XI 1974 – 7 III 1981, G. Kuschel (AMNZ, NZAC); 1♂, 3♀ (1♀, slidemounted), Lynfield, Wattle Bay, 8 X 1986, G. Kuschel, sifted rotten wood (NZAC); 1♂, Symonds St. Cemetery, Auckland, 40m, 24–25 III 2010, yellow pan traps, L. Masner (DSC); 2♂, Hunua Ranges, Vining Reserve, Mangatangi tr., 240m, 37°07.747’S, 175°13.024’E, 17 XI–28 XII 2005, Nothofagus –Agathis–Phyllocladus trichomanoides, etc., FMHD #2005-005, FIT, A. Newton, M. Thayer, et al., ANMT site 1141 (FMNH); 1♂, Hunua Ranges Reg. Park, Kohukohunui tr. nr. Mine Rd., 475m, 37°02.396’S 175°11.251’E, 17 XI–28 XI 2005, broadleaf– podocarp forest, numerous tree ferns, FMHD #2005-001, FIT, A. Newton, M. Thayer, et al., ANMT site 1140 (FMNH); 1♀, Swanson, 8 II 1942, D. Spiller (NZAC); Bay of Plenty (BP): 1♀, Papatea, NZMS 260 Y14 386806m 22–30 X 1992, J.W.M. Marris, yellow pan trap, lowland broadleaf/podocarp forest (LUNZ); Coromandel (CL): 1♀, Little Barrier I, Ngapuamataahu, 7 IV 1984, C.T. Duval, sifted rotten wood 84/60 (NZAC); 1♂, Great Barrier I, Little Windy Hill, 200m, 21 XI–13 XII 2002, P. Sutton, forest edge malaise trap L21054 (AMNZ); Northland (ND): 4♂, Waipoua SF, 0.9km E Forest Hqtrs., 120m, 26 XI–4 XII 1984, hardwood– podocarp forest, A. Newton, M. Thayer 686, FIT & window trap (FMNH); 2♂, Waipoua SF, 0.8km NW Wairau Summit, 350m, 27 XI–6 XII 1984, hardwood–podocarp forest, A. Newton, M. Thayer 689, FIT & window trap (DSC, FMNH); 1♂, Waipoua SF, 0.8km NW Wairau Summit, 350m, 27 XI 1984, hardwood–podocarp forest, A. Newton, M. Thayer 689, berl., leaf & log litter, forest floor (FMNH); 2♀ (1♀, slide-mounted), Waipoua SF, Kauri Ricker Tr., 120m, 26 XI–4 XII 1984, kauri–podocarp–hardwood, A. Newton, M. Thayer 684, FIT & window trap (FMNH); 1♀, Waipoua SF, Toronui tr., 120m, 26 XI–4 XII 1984, kauri–podocarp–hardwood, A. Newton, M. Thayer 685, FIT & window trap (FMNH); 1♂, Waipoua Stms, 100m, 19 III 1978, S.B. Peck, litter (NZAC); 1♀, Waipoua Forest, Waipoua stm, 70m, 17 III 1978, S. Peck, J. Peck, berl., frass under bark kauri log (FMNH); 1♀, Waipoua SF, 25 XI 1980, G. Kuschel, decayed wood 80/120 (ZNAC); 1♀, Painia Opua SF, 22 I 1981, G. Kuschel, litter and rotten wood (NZAC); 1♂, 2♀, Unuwhao, 270m, 25 XI 1982, G. Kuschel, sifted litter and decayed wood 82/125 (NZAC); Wairarapa (WA): Pongaroa, 31 XII 1980, J.C. Watt, wood mould 80/158 (NZAC).
Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from the other species of Brounea by the following combination of characters: male eye larger and prominent, as long as temple (Fig. 2 c); female eye smaller, one-half length of temple; antennomeres 4–5 longer than wide, 6–7 subquadrate, 8–10 weakly transverse; median lobe longer than parameres, bullet shaped (Fig. 3 c).
Description. Length 1.7–1.9 mm. Body brown, elytra, legs, antennae and maxillary palpi paler (Fig. 1 c). Head. Head round, widest across eyes (Fig. 1 c). Ventral surface of head of both sexes unmodified (Fig. 2 n); lacking swollen ventral surface or dense gular setae. Antennomeres 1–2 elongate, 3 subquadrate, 4–5 longer than wide, 6– 7 subquadrate, 8–10 weakly transverse. Frontal sulcus shallow, reaching to mid-point of eye from apex of rostrum (Fig. 2 c). Anterior and posterior frontal fovea small and round. Male eye large and prominent, as long as temple. Female eye smaller, one-half length of temple. Thorax. Prosternum as long as wide, widest at midpoint. Elytra rectangular (Fig. 1 c). Hind wings of both sexes well-developed. Meso- and metaventrites together trapezoidal in ventral view, longer than wide. Abdomen. Abdominal tergite IV with pair of transverse patches of microtrichia reaching middle. Aedeagus. Median lobe longer than parameres, bullet shaped (Fig. 3 c). Phallobase symmetrical and rounded (Fig. 3 c). Parameres symmetrical with setae at tip, weakly emarginate inside of one-third length (Fig. 3 c).
Distribution. Auckland (AK), Bay of Plenty (BP), Coromandel (CL), Northland (ND), Taupo (TO), Wairarapa (WA) (Fig. 4: black squares).
Habitat. Most specimens of this species were collected using window, flight intercept, malaise, and yellow pan traps, or by sifting leaf and log litter in kauri, broadleaf, hardwood, and podocarp forests.
Etymology. This species is named for Kee-Jeong Ahn lab alumnus, Korean aleocharine specialist, and an enthusiastic supporter of this study, Dr. Yoon-Ho Kim.
description: Published as part of Park, Jong-Seok & Carlton, Christopher E., 2015, Brounea, a new genus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from New Zealand, with descriptions of nine new species, pp. 551-566 in Zootaxa 3990 (4) on pages 557-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/234571