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Issue: Vol. 3268 No. 1: 13 Apr. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-04-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3268.1.6
Page range: 55–62
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 4

Stenomastigus pseudofranzi sp. n., from South Africa (Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)

Museum of Natural History, Wrocław University, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wrocław, Poland
Coleoptera Mastigini new species Afrotropical South Africa

Abstract

A new species of the endemic South African genus Stenomastigus Leleup (Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae, Mastigini), S.pseudofranzi sp. n. is described. Because some morphological structures of the new species highly resemble those of S.franzi Leleup, description of the latter species is supplemented with previously unknown details of the aedeagus (includingthe copulatory piece). Habitus, aedeagi, modified fore legs of males and other diagnostic characters of both species are illustrated.

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