Achilia fiura Kurbatov & Cuccodoro & Sabella 2018, n. sp.

• Main Authors: Kurbatov, Sergey A., Cuccodoro, Giulio, Sabella, Giorgio
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Achilia; Achilia fiura; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5589964; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A7582020FF80FFF1FBF9FBCA577AEE39

Achilia fiura n. sp. Figs 3, 15, 18, 23, 54, 56, 58, 83 Type material (13 ex.): CENTRAL CHILE: Región Araucanía: Malleco prov.: MHNG; 1 ♂ (holotype); 45 km W Angol; 1400 m; 09.XII.1984 / 16.II.1985; S. & J. Peck; Nothofagus forest litter, car trap. – MHNG; 5 ♂ (paratypes); same data; S. & J. Peck; Nothofagus forest litter, car trap. – MNHS; 1 ♂ (paratype); same data; S & J. Peck; Nothofagus forest litter; car trap. – MHNG; 2 ♂ (paratypes); Nahuelbuta National Park, 40 km W Angol; 1200-1500 m; 19.XII.1984 / 17.II.1985; S. & J. Peck; Nothofagus-Araucaria for FIT. – MHNG; 3 ♂ (paratypes); 17 km W Angol; 800 m; 08.XII.1984 / 16. II.1985; S. & J. Peck; FIT mixed Nothofagus. – FMNH (FMHD #2002-95); 1 ♂ (paratype); Nahuelbuta National Park, 2.3 km W Los Portones entrance; 37° 49.41’S 72° 58.95’W; 1150 m; 25.XII.2002; Solodovnikov 1057; Nothofagus dombeyi + antarctica , mostly open understory, berlese, leaf & log litter, forest floor. Description: Body 1.45-1.50 mm long, usually entirely reddish with darker head and abdomen, and palpi yellowish. Head with eyes longer than temples. Pronotum wider than head, with maximal width on anterior half; median antebasal fovea as large as lateral ones. First abdominal tergite with basal striae slightly diverging, extending to less than one-third of paratergal length, and separated at base by more than one-third of tergal width. Male : Head as in Figs 54 and 56, flanked on entire length by two very deep pits with outer edge toothed at level of eyes (Fig. 58). Narrow frontal protuberance slightly convex at base and anteriorly flattened to vertexal sulcus. Antennae (Fig. 15) with scape and pedicel longer than wide; antennomere III wider than long; antennomere IV transverse, with protruding mesal margin pointed in middle and bearing a tuft of long setae; antennomere V transverse, with protruding mesal margin pointed in middle and bearing a long seta; antennomeres VI-VII distinctly wider than long; antennomere VIII transverse, with protruding mesal margin; ...