Oedichirus pteropophilus, Rougemont, 2018

Rougemont, Guillaume de, 2018, The genus Oedichirus in New Caledonia (Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Pinophilini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 537-586 : 563-564

Oedichirus pteropophilus nov.sp. (Figs 14)

Material studied: ♂ Holotype: New Caledonia, Col des Roussettes , ravine, forest litter, 25.X.1998, I. Löbl ♀ HOLOTYPE Oedichirus pteropophilus Des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [ MHNG] ; 1♂ & 1♀ paratypes: [Ibid.] ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus pteropophilus Des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [ MHNG & CRO] ; 1♀ paratype: New Caledonia, Col des Roussettes , 12.IX.1998, I. Löbl, litter in ravine ♀ PARATYPE Oedichirus pteropophilus des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [ MHNG]

Description: length: 7.6 mm; length of fore-body: 3; length of head: 0.85; breadth of head: 1; length of antenna: 1.32; length of pronotum: 1.17; breadth of pronotum: 1.05; length of elytron: 0.8; breadth of elytra: 1.17. Fore-body black, abdomen piceous; palpi, antennae and legs testaceous. Head micro-reticulate, pronotum and elytra with scarcely discernible microsculpture, abdominal tergites with transverse microstriation. Pubescense extremely sparse, limited to some short erect hairs on frons, a very few others on pronotum, and short decumbent pubescence on abdomen. Habitus: Fig. 14h.

Head transverse; eyes large and protruberant, a little longer than temples; temples broadly, evenly rounded, without angles; groove of post-ocular border a little displaced from lateral margin to dorsal surface; puncturation coarse and dense, consisting of large round umbilicate punctures on entire surface except narrowly on frons, a small impunctate area on vertex the space of a couple of missing punctures, and punctures becoming shallow and evanescent near base. Pronotum moderately elongate, the sides strongly convergent from broad anterior angles to narrow base; lateral margins entirely bordered; puncturation dense and homogeneous, the punctures simple, those near centre slightly elongate. Elytra small, humeral angles completely obsolete, the sides fairly evenly rounded from base to posterior angles, the joint posterior margins concave; puncturation fairly regular, as dense as but a little coarser than that of pronotum. Keels and grooves of anterion margins of abdominal tergites obsolescent on tergite III, long on tergites IV-VIII; puncturation homogeneous, dense, the punctures about as large as those of pronotum.

Male: abdominal sternite VIII: Fig. 14s8; aedoeagus: Figs. 14arl, av.

Female: sternite IX: Fig. 14vp.