Oedichirus javanicus, Rougemont, 2018

Rougemont, Guillaume de, 2018, New oriental Oedichirus (Staphylinidae, Paederinae, Pinophilini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 461-536 : 478

Oedichirus javanicus nov.sp.

(Fig. 6)

Material studied: ♀ Holotype: JAVA, Gunung Merapi, 11.VII.1982, G. de Rougemont / HOLOTYPE Oedichirus javanicus DES. 2015 G. de Rougemont [ CRO].

Additional material: 1♀: Jangpan Kulon , W. JAVA, INDONESIA, 25.III.1993, K. ODANAKA / Oedichirus alatus NIET Det. TATEO ITO / Oedichirus javanicus Det. 2016 G. de Rougemont [ CIK].

Description: length: 7.4 mm; length of fore-body: 3.6; length of head: 0.85; breadth of head: 1.05; length of antenna: 2; length of pronotum: 1.28; breadth of pronotum: 1; length of elytron: 1.45; breadth of elytra: 1.2. Head black, very narrowly reddish at base, pronotum red, elytra bicolorous, black in anterior part, measured along suture the black part extends to more than 2/3 rds the length of elytron, red in posterior part. Palpi and antennae testaceous; legs testaceous, the knees scarcely infuscate on forelegs, infuscation progressively extensive on middle and hind legs on which the infuscation occupies about distal quarter of femora and more than proximal 2/3 rds of tibiae. Dorsal surfaces devoid of microsculpture. Pubescence very long, mostly pale, erect. Habitus: as in Fig. 5h.

Female: sternite IX: Fig. 6vp.

This member of the O. Alatus group is practically indistinguishable from O. astoni ROUGEMONT ( Hong Kong) and O. guomindangi nov.sp. (Taiwan) except by the conformation of the female ninth sternite and vulvar plate.

Distribution: Map 2 . Key 1.

Figures

Map 2: Distribution of the O. Alatus group. Red circles: O. alatus; blue circles: O. chapmani; green circle: O. sihanouki; blue square: O. vexans and sp. A5; red square: O. falcifer; green lozenge: O. patcholatkoi; red lozenge: O. guomindangi; green square: O. astoni; blue stars: O. javanicus; red star: sp. A1; blue triangle: sp. A3; red triangles: sp. A4.