Scydmaenozila inexpectata Jałoszyński, 2014, sp. n.
Creators: name: Jałoszyński, Paweł
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Scydmaenozila
Scydmaenozila inexpectata

description: Scydmaenozila inexpectata sp. n.
(Figs. 75, 87–88, 95–96, 195 d)
Type material studied. Holotype: AUSTRALIA: ♂: five labels: "Blue Mts. N. S. Wales " [white, printed], "F. W. Ferguson / Collection" [white, printed], " Phagonophana / latipennis Lea / N. S. Wales " [white, handwritten], "Aust. Nat. / Ins. Coll." [green, printed], " SCYDMAENOZILA / inexpectata m. / det. P. Jałoszyński, 2014 / HOLOTYPUS " [red, printed] (ANIC). Paratype: 1 ♀, originally mounted on one card together with the holotype, labeled with white, printed copies of original labels, and with standard yellow " PARATYPUS " label (ANIC).
Diagnosis. Male and female: body uniformly brown. Male: aedeagus slender, in ventral view with rounded and subtriangular apex; apical part of median lobe not demarcated.
Description. Body of male (Fig. 75) strongly convex, elongate and slender, with long appendages, BL 2.98 mm; cuticle glossy, uniformly reddish-brown, vestiture slightly lighter than cuticle.
Head (Fig. 75) broadest at eyes, HL 0.50 mm, HW 0.60 mm; tempora longer than eyes, strongly curved posteromesally; vertex weakly convex; frons subtrapezoidal. Eyes large and strongly projecting laterally from the head silhouette, finely faceted. Punctures on head dorsum fine, separated by spaces 1.5– 2 x as wide as diameters of punctures; setae on frons and anterior portion of vertex short, sparse and suberect, tempora and posterior portion of vertex densely covered with long bristles directed posteriorly and posterolaterally. Antennae (Fig. 75) slender, AnL 1.78; antennomeres I–VIII distinctly elongate, IX–X each about as long as broad, XI slightly shorter than IX–X together, slightly less than twice as long as broad, pointed.
Pronotum (Fig. 75) in dorsal view strongly elongate, broadest near anterior third, PL 0.88 mm, PW 68 mm; anterior and lateral margins in anterior half rounded; sides slightly concave in posterior third; posterior margin distinctly bisinuate; base of pronotum with two pairs of large and deep pits, additionally with a pair of shallow but distinct impressions located dorsolaterally. Punctures on pronotal disc fine and inconspicuous; entire dorsal and lateral surface of pronotum covered with moderately dense bristles, dorsally with admixture of thin setae.
Elytra (Fig. 75) regularly oval, broadest near middle, EL 1.60 mm, EW 1.10 mm, EI 1.45; basal impressions short but distinct; elytral apices separately rounded. Punctures on elytral disc fine but slightly more distinct than those on pronotum, separated by spaces 2– 3 x as wide as diameters of punctures; setae long, curved, sparse and erect. Hind wings well developed, about twice as long as elytra.
Legs (Fig. 75) long and slender, without modifications.
Aedeagus (Figs. 87–88, 95–96) elongate and slender; AeL 0.60 mm; in ventral view apex not demarcated and subtriangular, with narrowly rounded tip; in lateral view apical part subtriangular and not demarcated from ventral wall; internal armature complicated, with submedian complex of elongate and darkly sclerotized structures and subapical finely denticulate lateral lobes of internal sac; parameres long and slender, with strongly broadened apices.
Female. Slightly larger than male and with shorter antennae, but does not differ in proportions of antennomeres. BL 3.18; HL 0.53 mm, HW 0.63 mm, AnL 1.65 mm; PL 0.95 mm, PW 0.73 mm; EL 1.70 mm, EW 1.25 mm, EI 1.36.
Distribution (Fig. 195 d). South-eastern Australia: New South Wales.
Etymology. The epithet inexpectata refers to the surprising finding of this new species among specimens identified previously by Lea as Phagonophana latipennis.
Remarks. Scydmaenozila inexpectata, although externally similar to the remaining uniformly brown species, differs clearly in the aedeagus, which has the apex subtriangular, and not emarginated or broadly rounded.
description: Published as part of Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2014, ' The curse of Horaeomorphus ': taxonomy of misplaced Australian Cyrtoscydmini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 3828 (1) on pages 37-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3828.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286513