Thamiaraea tsitsilasi, Pace, 2007

Pace, Roberto, 2007, Description of Amischa paolettii sp. nov. and Thamiaraea tsitsilasi sp. nov. from the Australian region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64, pp. 7-11 : 10

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2007.64.2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10665977
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C9EE1E-FFCB-FFB6-FF02-7FF4FDE3E1A3
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Thamiaraea tsitsilasi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Thamiaraea tsitsilasi View in CoL sp. nov.

Figures 3–5 View Figures 3–5

Holotype, Australia, Victoria, Gerangamete near Colac , remnant forest, 12.VIII.2004, by sweep net in pasture at forest margin, 50 m, leg. M.G. Paoletti and A. Tsitsilas ( MV T-18707).

Description. Length 2.3 mm. Body shiny and black-brown; antennae black, legs yellow with yellow-brown femurs, 3rd, 4th and 5th antennomeres longer than wide, 6th weakly longer than wide, 9th and 10th as long as wide, 2 superficial posterior points and an evanescent posterior median fovea on the pronotum. Abdomen scarcely narrow behind. Reticulation of the head and the pronotum evident, that of the elytra very evident and that of the abdomen superficial. Granularity of head and pronotum superficial, that of the abdomen fine, fewer closes on the posterior free urotergites. Punctuation of the elytra strong and close. Aedeagus, figs. 4–5.

Note. The genus Thamiaraea Thomson, 1858 , occurs in the Nearctic, Palaearctic, Oriental and Australian regions. The species T. scapularis ( Fairmaire, 1849) occurs in Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Sulawesi, Singapore, New Guinea, Philippines, Sabah, New Caledonia, New Hebrides and Tahiti. The new species is clearly distinguished from this species by the 9th and 10th antennomeres of the new species being as long as wide but transverse in scapularis ; the abdomen of the male of the new species is deprived of evident secondary sexual characters as is the abdomen of scapularis ; the aedeagus of the new species is bent at the apex, in lateral view, and rectilinear in scapularis .

Etymology. The new species is dedicated to one of its collectors, PhD student Mr. A. Tsitsilas from the Centre of Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research ( CESAR), The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.