Novoclaviger wroughtoni ( Wasmann, 1894 )

Hlavác, Peter, 2007, Revision of the subtribe Clavigerodina and an annotated catalogue of South African Clavigeritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), African Invertebrates 48 (2), pp. 65-92 : 80-81

Novoclaviger wroughtoni ( Wasmann, 1894)

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Fustigerodes (Novoclaviger) wroughtoni: Wasmann 1894: 215 .

Novoclaviger wroughtoni (Wasmann) : Raffray 1897: 119.

Fustigerodes (Novoclaviger) wroughtoni Wasmann : Jeannel 1964: 208, figs 305, 308 (habitus and aedeagus). Differential diagnosis: This species can be separated easily from all known species of Novoclaviger by the composite tergum with a large basal impression, and with the lateral fringe very close to the paratergites.

Description: Body reddish yellow, 1.7–1.87 mm long and 0.67–0.71 mm wide, head about as long as pronotum, with rough reticulate surface, frontal rostrum roundly acute, tempora parallel, with 4 macrosetae at sides; antennae long, terminal antennomere subcylindrical, 4.4–4.6 times as long as wide, antennomere III weakly thickened distally; pronotum 1.6–1.7 times as wide as long, with 6 or 7 macrosetae on sides, longitudinal sulcus present but ill-defined; posterior part of elytra with bunch of setae opposite to abdominal prominences, disc of elytra and abdomen smooth, humeri with 6 or 7 macrosetae; lateral processes on composite tergum smaller, upper part rounded, flat, lacking any trace of carinae.

Lectotype (here designated): ơ [lacking aedeagus and left antenna] ‘[h] Delagoa-Bay, Wroughton / [h] b. Acantholepis capensis Mayr / [h] Novoclaviger wroughtoni Wasm. type / [red label] [p] TYPE / [blue label] [p] MUSEUM PARIS, 1917, COLL.A. RAFFRAY / [h] F. wroughtoni [p] A. Raffray det./ [p] LECTOTYPE, Fustigerodes (Novoclaviger) wroughtoni Wasmann, P. Hlavác v des., 2006’ (MNHN).

Note: Other syntypes (2ơ 2^) were not available for the study. The type locality Delagoa Bay [ Mozambique] given by Wasmann seems to be wrong, and it has been corrected to Natal by Raffray (1897: 120) .

Other material examined: SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape: 5ơ 5^‘ Eastern Cape, Tsitsikamma N. P., Blue Duiker Tr., ca. 2.5 km W Storms R. mouth, 100 m, 34°01.05'S: 23°52.66'E / 29.i.2004, tall coastal forest; FMHD # 2004-018, berl., leaf & log litter, Newton, Thayer et al. 1079, FIELD MUSEUM NAT. HIST.’ ( FMNH, CPH) ; 2ơ ‘ Eastern Cape, Tsitsikamma N. P., Blue Duiker Tr., ca. 2.5 km W Storms R. mouth, 100 m, 34°01.05'S: 23°52.66'E / 29.i.2004, tall coastal forest, FMHD # 2004-019, berl., stream-edge litter, Clarke, Solodovnikov, Thayer 1079’ ( FMNH) ; 1^‘S Cape Prov., Tsitsikama, Witelsb [os]., 33.58°S: 24.02°E [33°58'S: 24°02'E] / 10.xii.1978, E-Y: 1529, sifted forest litter, leg. Endrödy-Younga’ ( TMSA) . Western Cape: 4ơ 2^1 ex. ‘S Cape, Garden of Eden , 34.02°S: 23.12°E [34°02'S: 23°12'E] / 13.xii.1976, E-Y: 1310, sifted litter, leg. Endrödy-Younga’ ( TMSA) ; 3ơ 1^‘S Cape, Knysna forest , 33.56°S: 23.08°E [33°56'S: 23°08'E] / 19.xi.1973, E-Y: 271, sifted litter, leg. Endrödy-Younga’ ( TMSA) ; 3ơ ‘S Cape, Harkerville Forest , 34.04°S: 23.10°E [34°04'S: 23°10'E] / 14.xii.1976, E-Y: 1312, Podocarp. for. litt., leg. Endrödy-Younga’ ( TMSA) ; 2ơ ‘ Western Cape: Harkerville S. F., 3 km N Kranshoek Picnic Area , 220 m, 34°03.5'S: 23°13.99'E, 1–25.ii.2004 / 2nd growth afromontane forest; FMHD # 2004-031, flight intercept trap, Solodovnikov, Newton et al. 1084’ ( FMNH) ; 2ơ ‘ Western Cape, Knysna env. Tsitsikamma, 33°59.3'S: 23°32.8'E, at sea level, 29.i.04, Hlavác v lgt. / under bark ant nest / HOST ANT: Tetramorium weitzeckeri Emery subsp. ebeninum Arnold., B. Taylor det., 2004’ ( CPH) .

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Fig. 38. Distribution of the Novoclaviger wroughtoni group: • – N. wroughtoni, undescribed species.