Gnypeta groenlandica Lohse 1989

• Main Authors: Klimaszewski, Jan, Savard, Karine, Pelletier, Georges, Webster, Reginald
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• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Gnypeta; Gnypeta groenlandica; Greenland; Peary Land
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3792782; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/D43E034BFF814172FF17FDB764E9FC06

6. Gnypeta groenlandica Lohse (Figs 8, 26 a, b, 83-90, 195) Gnypeta groenlandica Lohse 1989: 58. HOLOTYPE (male): GREENLAND, Nedre Midsommer Sö, 2.VII.1966, Can. Peary Land Expd. [Expedition] (CNC). Examined. Material examined Specimens are listed in Appendix A. Diagnosis This species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: body robust, length 3.2-3.7 mm (Fig. 8); elytra (at suture) about as long as pronotum and 1/5 wider than maximum width of pronotum (Fig. 8); abdomen at base as broad as elytra and slightly broadening posteriorly (Fig. 8); antennal article 4 subquadrate or slightly elongate, 3-6 slightly to strongly transverse, 7-9 strongly transverse (Figs 26 a, b); median lobe of aedeagus with apical part narrowly produced and sinuate laterally (Fig. 83), bulbus in dorsal view with broad lateral swells (Fig. 84); spermatheca with capsule longer than wide, funnel-shaped, lateral sides subparallel (Fig. 88); stem curved, sinuate apically and slightly swollen basally (Fig. 88); male tergite 8 strongly transverse and truncate apically (Fig. 86). Description Body length 3.2-3.7 mm; uniformly dark brown to black (Fig. 8); integument moderately glossy; pubescence yellowish grey and moderately long and dense; antennal article 4 subquadrate or slightly elongate, 5-6 slightly and 7-9 strongly transverse (Figs 26 a, b); head and pronotum of about the same width (Fig. 8); elytra and abdomen wider than either head or pronotum; elytra small and short (Fig. 8); head rounded basally; pronotum broadest in apical third, pubescence directed anterad along midline and laterad elsewhere; elytra (at suture) about as long as pronotum and 1/5 broader than maximum width of pronotum (Fig. 8), pubescence directed obliquely postero-laterad, in wavy pattern medially on each side; abdomen swollen medially, as broad as elytra at base (Fig. 8); metatarsus with two basal articles of about the same length and the third one slightly shorter. Male . Tergite 8 transverse and truncate apically and slightly concave medially ...