Dianous coerulescens (Gyllenhal, 1810), 2023

Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2023, Dianous coerulescens (Gyllenhal, 1810), a new species for Portugal (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Steninae), Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26, pp. 9-10 : 10

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12812677

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12812708

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Dianous coerulescens (Gyllenhal, 1810)
status

 

Dianous coerulescens (Gyllenhal, 1810) View in CoL

PORTUGAL: Beira Alta, Viseu, Lamego, Sande, on the bank of a brook between moss and vegetation, June 2, 1962, 1 ex., R. N. Ferreira leg. and coll. ( RNFC).

Body length: 6-8 mm long. Body shiny metallic blue to greenish-blue, with upper surface moderately to strongly and densely punctured. The head is transverse, with prominent convex eyes and long tapering temples. Antennae and palps dark, with the first long and weakly clubbed. Pronotum elongate, broadest in front of the middle and constricted in front of the base. Elytra square to slightly elongate, much broader than the pronotum and with prominent shoulders, weakly rounded and each with an orange spot behind the middle. Tergites 1-4 with paratergites, without basal ridges and finely punctured and tergites 5 and 6 with moderate paratergites. Last segment with a pair of long stout setae (absent in Stenus ). The legs are long and slender, entirely dark although the tibiae may be lighter towards the apex. Hind tarsi long with the first and fifth segments longer than the others and the fourth weakly bilobed. Distinguished from all Portuguese Stenus by the paired abdominal setae, the metallic coloration and the long, tapering temples.

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Dianous

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