Sciacharoides eucalypti Franz, comb. n.
Creators: name: Jałoszyński, Paweł
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sciacharoides
Sciacharoides eucalypti

description: Sciacharoides eucalypti (Franz) comb. n.
(Figs. 161, 165, 171, 197 b)
Horaeomorphus eucalypti Franz, 1975: 145: 123.
Type material studied. Holotype: AUSTRALIA: ♂: six labels (Fig. 165): "Umg. [i.e., env.] Brisbane / Queensld., Austr. / lg. H. Franz 1970 " [white, printed], " Horaeomorphus / eucalypti m. / det. H. Franz" [white, handwritten and printed], " Typus " [red, handwritten], "male symbol" [white, printed], " SAMA Database / No. 25- 037015" [white, printed], " SCIACHAROIDES / eucalypti (Franz, 1975) / det. P. Jałoszyński, 2014" [white, printed] (SAM).
Revised diagnosis. Male: BL 1.45 mm; pronotum with antebasal transverse groove interrupted in middle and with distinct internal pair of pits; mesanepisterna without setal brushes; subtriangular apical region of aedeagus in ventral view laterally confluent with basal capsule. Female and its diagnostic characters unknown.
Redescription. Body of male (Fig. 161) strongly convex, elongate but relatively stout, with long appendages, BL 1.45 mm; cuticle glossy, body uniformly light brown with slightly lighter appendages, vestiture yellowish.
Head (Fig. 161) in dorsal view rounded, broadest at eyes, HL 0.25 mm, HW 0.30 mm; tempora slightly longer than eyes, strongly curved posteromesally; vertex weakly convex; frons subtrapezoidal. Eyes moderately large and moderately projecting laterally from the head silhouette, finely faceted. Punctures on head dorsum fine and sparse, inconspicuous; setae short, on frons and anterior part of vertex sparse and suberect, tempora and posterior margin of vertex with dense bristles directed posteriorly and slightly posterolaterally. Antennae (Fig. 161) slender, with five terminal antennomeres forming indistinct club, AnL 0.68 mm; antennomeres I–II distinctly elongate, III–VI each only slightly longer than broad, VII–X distinctly transverse, XI only slightly longer than X, 1.2x as long as broad, with blunt apex.
Pronotum (Fig. 161) indistinctly elongate, broadest between middle and anterior third, PL 0.38 mm, PW 0.33 mm; anterior and lateral margins rounded; posterior margin shallowly bisinuate; base of pronotum with shallow and narrow transverse groove interrupted in middle, and with two pairs of pits: larger internal pair and smaller external pair. Punctures on pronotal disc fine and inconspicuous; setae sparse, thin, short and suberect, sides of pronotum with moderately dense bristles.
Elytra (Fig. 161) oval, broadest distinctly anterior to middle, EL 0.83 mm, EW 0.60 mm, EI 1.38; basal impressions short but distinct; elytral apices separately rounded. Punctures on elytral disc much more distinct than those on pronotum, in anterior median area separated by spaces comparable to diameters of punctures, on sides and posteriorly punctures reducing in diameter and depth; setae much longer than those on head and pronotum, moderately dense, curved and erect. Hind wings well developed, about twice as long as elytra.
Legs (Fig. 161) long and slender, without modifications.
Aedeagus (Fig. 171) relatively stout, AeL 0.25 mm, in ventral view drop-shaped with strongly narrowing subtriangular apical region laterally confluent with sides of median lobe; internal armature composed of H-shaped subapical structure proximally connected to two lateral bunches of thin hair-like sclerites; parameres slender, each with three apical setae.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution (Fig. 197 b). South-eastern Australia: Queensland.
Remarks. This species looks like a miniature Sciacharoides thompsoni; s ee Remarks section at the latter species above.
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 59-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3828.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286513