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Additional records for Stenosagola newtoni Park & Carlton, 2013 (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Faronitae), with notes on aedeagal morphology
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Academic editor: Stylianos Chatzimanolis
Received: 07 Oct 2014 | Accepted: 20 Oct 2014 | Published: 24 Oct 2014
© 2014 Stephen Thorpe
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Thorpe S (2014) Additional records for Stenosagola newtoni Park & Carlton, 2013 (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Faronitae), with notes on aedeagal morphology. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4135. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e4135
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The purpose of this short note is to identify morphospecies sp. 0471 of the Hope River Forest Fragmentation Project. It is Stenosagola newtoni Park & Carlton, 2013. The material listed herein raises the number of published specimen records for S. newtoni from 2 to 51. All additional 49 specimens are fully winged males, collected in flight intercept traps (FITs), from the South Island of New Zealand. Examination of the new material has resulted in the detection of an error in the original description of S. newtoni, whereby the mirror image of the aedeagus was inadvertently illustrated. It is not a case of genitalic antisymmetry.
Hope River Forest Fragmentation Project, New Zealand, Stenosagola newtoni
Taxonomic revision of the genus Stenosagola Broun, 1921 (
24 out of the 49 fully winged HRFFP specimens (~50%) were dissected (or had the aedeagus clearly visible without dissection), including at least one from each site (Bush Hut, Donut, Front Dismal, High Ridge, Home Range, Kakapo, Meat Safe, Prairie, St. James, Twin, Umbrella, Windy Point). The remaining specimens are assumed to be males because fully winged females are unknown in Stenosagola (
S. newtoni can only be recognised by the aedeagus (Fig.
South Island of New Zealand.
Aedeagal antisymmetry is a phenomenon whereby there can be mirror image variation in male genitalia (
The following 8 specimens are from the HRFFP samples, but were not used in the analysis by