Sagola triregia Thery and Leschen 2013
Creators: name: Park, J. - S.
name: Carlton, C. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sagola
Sagola triregia

description: Sagola triregia Théry and Leschen, 2013
(Figs. 66b, 66h, 66p, 67)
Sagola triregia Théry and Leschen, 2013: 45.
Type Material. Paratype. New Zealand: Three Kings Islands: 1♀ (NZAC), glued on rectangular card, “NEW ZEALAND, TH Great Is, Tasman Valley along Tasman Stm 10 Nov 2008” [white label, printed]; “sifting leaf litter and rotten wood” [white label, printed]; “ T. Buckley, R. Leschen TH053 34°09.733/172°08.610″ [white label, printed]; “Paratype Sagola triregia Théory & Leschen 2012 ” [blue label, printed].
Additional Material (n = 97: 30 males; 67 females). NEW ZEALAND: Three Kings Islands: 1♂ 1♀, Great I, Bald Hill, sifted litter 99/27, 13 IV 1999, T. K. Crosby; 1♂ 3♀♀, Great I, sifted litter 99/25, 13 IV 1999, T. K. Crosby; 2♂♂ 8♀♀, South West I, summit, 25 XI 1983, J.C. Watt, sifted litter 83/126; 1♂ 1♀, South West I, 26 XI 1983, J.C. Watt, litter 83/128; 2♂♂ 1♀, North East I, summit, 1 XII 1983, J.C. Watt, litter and humus 83/114; 1♀, South West I, 200m, 21–21 XI 1985, M. Potter, litter 85/81; 11♂♂ 21♀♀, Castaway Camp, 29 XI 1970, G.W. Ramsay, litter; 4♂♂ 10♀♀, South West Island, 1 XII 1970, G. Kuschel, litter 70/237; 2♂♂ 3♀♀, Tasman Valley, 26 XI 1970, J.C. Watt, litter 70/223; 1♂, Castaway Camp, 80m, 16 XI 1970, G. Kuschel, litter 70/188; 1♂, South West Is, 1 XII 1970, G.W. Ramsay, litter 70/240; 5♀♀, Castaway Camp, 85m, 16 XI 1970, G. Kuschel, litter 70/190; 2♀♀, Castaway Camp, 85m, 16 XI 1970, G. Kuschel, litter 70/191; 1♀, Castaway Camp, 85m, 12 XI 1970, G. Kuschel, litter 70/183; 1♀, Tasman Valley, 25 XI 1970, G. Kuschel, litter 70/215; 4♂♂ 9♀♀, South West I, summit ridge, 13 I 1951, E.G. Turbott, leaf litter under puka forest.
Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from the other species of the major species-group by the following combination of characters: body length 2.4–2.6 mm; eye one-half length of temple; ventral temple of male head with depressed and projecting temporal lobe and surface flattened; shape of antennomeres and genitalia unique to species; only known from Three Kings Islands.
Redescription. Length 2.4–2.6 mm. Body brown, antennae, legs, maxillary palpi, and elytra paler (Fig. 66b). Head: Male head triangular, widest across temples (Fig. 66b). Female head bluntly triangular, widest across eyes. Ventral temple of male head with depressed and projecting temporal lobe, surface flattened (Fig. 66p). Antennomere 1 approximately 1.5 times longer than wide, 2 longer than wide, 3 subquadrate, 4–5 longer than wide, 6–10 subquadrate. Frontal sulcus shallow, extended beyond eye. Anterior frontal fovea round, partially covered by frontal rostrum, posterior frontal fovea elongate. Eye prominent, one-half length of temple. Thorax: Prosternum as long as wide, widest at one-third length. Male elytra rectangular (Fig. 66b), female elytra subquadrate. Male meso- and metathorax trapezoidal, longer than wide, female as long as wide. Abdomen: Male tergite IV with pair of transverse patches of microtrichia reaching middle, patches absent in female. Aedeagus: Median lobe of genitalia funnel-shaped with round process at middle (Fig. 66h). Phallobase of median lobe symmetrical and rounded (Fig. 66h). Parameres symmetrical, setose from midpoints to apices (Fig. 66h).
Type Locality. Three Kings Islands, New Zealand.
Distribution. Three Kings Islands (Fig. 67: triangle).
Habitat. Specimens of this species were collected by sifting leaf litter.
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 120-121, DOI: 10.1649/072.068.0mo4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4907735