Species Sunorfa (Sunorfa) nigripes Chandler, 1987
- Sunorfa nigripes Chandler, D.S. 1987. The Sunorfa of Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 14: 67–70 [Nov. 1987] [70].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (//Queensland, 16.06S 145.28E, near Cape Tribulation, 50m, 20.VI.1971, Taylor and Feehan, rainforest, Berleseate ANIC 326/ HOLOTYPE Sunorfa nigripes Chandler//), near Cape Tribulation, QLD.Type host:
Iridomyrmex sp. [FORMICIDAE]
Distribution
States
Queensland
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: predator, terrestrial.
Diagnosis
Length 1.02-1.08 mm. Body red-brown to brown; head and elytra with sparse coarse punctures, elytra with 6 punctures in line perpendicular to elytral suture from humeri; pronotum with moderate sparse punctation; elytra with 3 basal foveae same size as elytral punctures. Males with vertex slightly raised at middle, projecting anteriorly as narrow shelf, area antero-medial to vertexal foveae flattened; mesotrochanters with broad ventral tubercle, mesotibiae with broad apical spur; sternite VI with apex broadly rounded, disc lightly convex, evenly setate. Females with vertex lightly impressed antero-medially from vertexal foveae, impression interrupted at middle; legs lacking modifications, sternite VI similar in form to that of males, not as densely setate.
Diagnosis References
Chandler, D.S. 1987. The Sunorfa of Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 14: 67–70 [Nov. 1987] [70]
History of changes
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