Gnypeta ashei Klimaszewski & Savard & Pelletier & Webster 2008, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Klimaszewski, Jan, Savard, Karine, Pelletier, Georges, Webster, Reginald
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Gnypeta; Gnypeta ashei; Northwest Territories; Canada; Hazen Camp
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3792792; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3792792

1. Gnypeta ashei Klimaszewski, sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: C0AC9EAB-C95F-481E-BCD9-C3046CBEEA33 (Figs 3, 21 a, b, 39-47, 190) HOLOTYPE (male): CANADA, Northwest Territories, Hazen Camp, Ellesmere I., [81°49'00" N, 71°20'00" W] 10.VIII.1961, D.R. Olivier; paratype Gnypeta larifuga Ashe [manuscript name], det. Ashe 1987, CNC No. 23676 (CNC). PARATYPES: listed in Appendix A. Etymology This species is named after the late Steve Ashe of the University of Kansas who discovered this species but did not publish it. The CNC specimens, which he examined, bear his identification labels as the manuscript – unpublished name “ Gnypeta larifuga Ashe ”. Diagnosis This species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: body length 2.5-2.8 mm (Fig. 3); elytra (at suture) about as long as pronotum and 1/4 wider than maximum width of pronotum (Fig. 3); abdomen at base slightly narrower than elytra (Fig. 3); antennal articles 4-6 subquadrate, and 7-9 transverse (Fig. 3); median lobe of aedeagus with apex broadly triangular (Fig. 39); spermatheca with capsule wider than long and broadly funnel-shaped (Fig. 45); stem sinuate and slightly swollen basally (Fig. 45). Description Body length 2.5-2.8 mm; dark brown to black, sometimes central part of elytra and tarsi reddish brown (Fig. 3); integument strongly glossy; pubescence yellowish grey and moderately long and dense; antennal article 4 slightly shorter than preceding article, articles 4-6 subquadrate to slightly elongate in male, and 7-9 transverse (Fig. 21 a, b); head and pronotum of about the same width (Fig. 3); elytra and abdomen wider than either head or pronotum; elytra small and short (Fig. 3); 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 1/4 broader than maximum width of pronotum (Fig. 3), pubescence directed obliquely postero-laterad, with wavy pattern on medial part of disc; abdomen subparallel, slightly narrower than ...