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Ahnea, a new genus from New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), with description of a new species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2014

Jong-Seok Park*
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, LSB 404, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States of America
Christopher E. Carlton
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, LSB 404, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States of America
*
1Corresponding author (e-mail: jpark16@tigers.lsu.edu).

Abstract

Ahnea keejeongi Park and Carlton (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), a new genus and new species of New Zealand endemic beetle belonging to the supertribe Faronitae is described. Six previously described species are included to this genus and four species are synonymised as follow: Sagola dissonans Broun, 1921 and S. planicula Broun, 1921 under Ahnea ventralis (Broun, 1912); S. carinata Broun, 1912 and S. lineiceps Broun, 1921 under Ahnea lineata (Broun, 1893). A key to species, habitus photographs, line drawings of diagnostic characters, and distribution maps are provided.

Type
Systematics & Morphology
Copyright
© Entomological Society of Canada 2014 

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