Scaphobaeocera Csiki 1909
Creators: name: Löbl, Ivan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Scaphobaeocera

description: Key to the New Guinean species of <i>Scaphobaeocera</i> 1 Antennomere VII more than 5 times as long as wide and longer than antennomeres III to VI combined................................................................................................................................................................... 2 ‒ Antennomere VII about 2 or 4 times as long as wide and much shorter than antennomeres V and VI combined................................................................................................................................................ 3 2 Metaventrite with median stria.......................................................................................... <i>S. balkei</i> sp. n. ‒ Metaventrite lacking median stria............................................................................................. species A 3 Antennomere XI conspicuously long, about as long as or longer than antennomeres IX and X combined................................................................................................................................................................. 4 ‒ Antennomere XI not conspicuously long, much shorter than antennomeres IX and X combined.......... 6 4 Elytra bearing strigulate microsculpture and iridescent.......................................................................... 5 ‒ Elytra not microsculptured and not iridescent................................................................. <i>S. gemina</i> sp. n. 5 Lateral parts of metaventrite bearing microsculpture................................................. <i>S. antennalis</i> LÖBL ‒ Lateral parts of metaventrite lacking microsculpture....................................................... <i>S. remota</i> LÖBL 6 Elytra with distinct bicolorous pattern................................................................................................... 7 ‒ Elytra uniformly reddish-brown to blackish, or somewhat darkened, or becoming lighter near apical mar- gins........................................................................................................................................................ 8 7 Elytra light brown, darkened along suture, lateral margins and near apical margins. Metaventrite micros- culptured........................................................................................................................... <i>S. ornata</i> (PIC) ‒ Elytra light reddish-brown, each with dark spot in centre and darkened near apices........ <i>S. notata</i> sp. n. 8 Lateral parts of metaventrite conspicuously punctate, with punctures as large as punctures margining submesocoxal lines and much larger than pronotal punctures. Elytral punctation notably coarser than pronotal punctation....................................................................................................... <i>S. punctata</i> sp. n. ‒ Lateral parts of metaventrite very finely punctate, with punctures smaller that punctures margining sub- mesocoxal and about as minute as pronotal punctures........................................................................... 9 9 Minute species, body length 0.80 mm. Basolateral punctures on sternite 1 elongate........... <i>S. ptiliformis</i> LÖBL ‒ Species 0.95-1.35 mm long. Basolateral puncture on sternite 1 not elongate....................................... 10 10 Antennomere VIII conspicuously small, about as long as third of antennomere VII, antennomere VII about as long as XI................................................................................................................... species B ‒ Antennomere VIII not conspicuously small, longer than half of antennomere VII, antennomeres VII much shorter than XI........................................................................................................................... 11 11 Body 0.95-1.35 mm long. Antennomeres V slightly longer than VI. Parameres not sinuate........................................................................................................................................................... <i>S. papuana</i> CSIKI ‒ Body 1.40-1.45 mm long. Antennomeres V much longer than VI. Parameres sinuate.................................................................................................................................................................. <i>S. lycocorax</i> sp. n.
description: Published as part of <i>Ivan Löbl, 2017, New species and records of Scaphobaeocera CSIKI from New Guinea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae), pp. 33-41 in Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 107</i> on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1098156