Pella glooscapi Klimaszewski & Lynch & Majka & Renkema & Savard & Hlavac 2009, sp. n.

• Main Authors: Klimaszewski, Jan, Lynch, Derek, Majka, Christopher, Renkema, Justin, Savard, Karine, Hlavac, Peter
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Pella; Pella glooscapi; Canada; Lynch; Five Islands; abenaki; Maliseet; Mi’kmaq; Prince Edward Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3791143; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3791143

Pella glooscapi Klimaszewski & Majka, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: CC905F4C-29C9-4D1C-A761-E49D84E006BE Figs 1–10 Holotype.Male. CANADA, Nova Scotia, Upper Rawdon, Hants Co.,NS, 28.VIII.2008, J. Renkema, highbush blueberry field R2T1C (LFC). Paratypes: CANADA, Nova Scotia, Upper Rawdon, Hants Co., J. Renkema, highbush blueberry field: R2T1C, (LFC) 1 female; R2T1C, 26.VIII.2008 (CGMC) 1 male; R3T5A, 14.VIII.2008 (CGMC) 1 male; R2T1C, 9.IX.2008 (CGMC) 1 male; 12.IX.2008 (CGMC) 1 male; R2T1C, 25.VI.2008 (CGMC) 1 male. Etymology. The name of this new species is derived from the name Glooscap, a mythical creator and cultural hero of the Wabanaki native peoples (the Abenaki, Mi’kmaq, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Maliseet). According to the Mi’kmaq legend, when Glooscap slept, Nova Scotia was his bed and Prince Edward Island his pillow. Glooscap was the source of early environmental myths, teaching hunters that those who kill too much would destroy the world he created. According to legend, Glooscap inhabited the region where Pella glooscapi has been found. He supposedly created the neighbouring Five Islands in the Bay of Fundy by throwing stones at a giant beaver that built a dam to flood his medicine garden in Advocate. Accordingly we name this new species in honour of the rich mythology of the people of the Wabanaki Confederacy. Diagnosis. Pella glooscapi is similar in general appearance to P. loricata but may be easily distinguished by the uniformly black body (except for tarsi and basal parts of antennae), more robust antennae (Figs. 1, 2), and differently shaped median lobe of aedeagus with broad and sinuate tubus in lateral view (Fig. 4) and the shape of spermatheca (Fig. 8). Th e closest known relative of this species would appear to be P. criddlei (Casey 1911), from which it may be distinguished by the black body and differently shaped male genitalia (Figs. 3–5). The latter two species have an almost identical spermatheca. This and other Pella species may readily be distinguished from members of the ...