Oedichirus sedilloti

Rougemont, Guillaume de, 2018, The genus Oedichirus in New Caledonia (Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Pinophilini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 537-586 : 566

Oedichirus sedilloti FAUVEL

Oedichirus sedilloti FAUVEL, 1889, Rev. d’Ent. VIII: 254.

It has not been possible to redescribe this species because the type specimen was not found in the Sédillot collection (in MNHN), in which it was deposited. The species was described on the basis of two specimens; the second one was retained in FAUVEL’ s collection (now in the IRScNB); it belongs to a different species which is described above as O. fauvelianus nov.sp. Here is the author’s description of O. sedilloti : " Niger, nitidus, parce flavo-setosus, mandibulis, tuerculis antennariis spinisque duabus analibus rufis, palpis, antennarum basi pedibusque pallide testacies, illis caeterum infuscatis, articulo 11º testaceo, aliquando elytris, segmentis abdominalibus utrinque plagiatim (anticis latius), 6º apice 7ºque fere toto rufescentibus; capite fortifier transversim ovali, sat dense fortiter punctato, spatio minuto vertices laevi; thorace capite vix latiore, regulariter ovato, lateribus a medio ad basin fortiter angustatis, grosse aequaliter punctato, linea media longitudinali vix perspicus; elytris brevibus, thorace tertia brevioribus, basi thoracis basin parum superantibus, inde fere ad medium oblique ampliatis, a medio ad apicem subparallelis, apice arcuatim profunde emarginatis, dorso thorace fortius et parcius, lateribus densius et subtilius punctatis, humeris vix callosis, laevibus; abdominis segmentis 4 primis capite densius et subtilius confuse, 5-6 caeteris etiam subtilius punctatis, spinis analibus vix perspicue arcuatis, sat approximatis. – Long., 6 ¾ mill."

Note that after describing the colour of the type: "black, apical margin of abdominal segment VIII and whole of IX (segments 6 and 7 in FAUVEL’ s numbering) rufescent", he also describes the colour pattern of the other specimen: " aliquando elytris …" ("sometimes the elytra and both sides of the abdominal segments are obliquely (more broadly in front) rufescent"). Moreover the second of the labels attached to this specimen, written in FAUVEL’ s hand, states "the type has black elytra". Whereas Fauvel considered the two specimens to be colour variations of his new species, the second specimen is redescribed above as Oedichirus fauvelianus nov.sp. See also the description of O. taghavianae nov.sp. below.