Species Sunorfa (Sunorfa) testacea Chandler, 1987
- Sunorfa testacea Chandler, D.S. 1987. The Sunorfa of Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 14: 67–70 [Nov. 1987] [68].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (//Queensland, Upper Lankelly Creek, near Coen, 11.VI.1971, G. B. Moneith, rainforest/ HOLOTYPE Sunorfa testacea Chandler//), Upper Lankelly Creek, nr Coen, QLD.
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 1.02-1.14 mm. Body yellow to orange-brown; head and prothorax sparsely and lightly punctate; elytra with dense light punctation, 10 punctures in line perpendicular from elytral suture to humeri, base with three poorly defined foveae. Males with vertex deeply excavated between eyes, vertex protruding over excavation, median clump of flattened setae projecting dorsally at posterior margin of excavation, anteriorly curved hook originating above antennal bases; pronotum with small setose bump on antero-lateral margins; mesotrochanters bearing blunt setate tubercle, mesofemora with dorsal circular impression at apex, mesotibiae with broad apical spur; sternite VI medially impressed, broadly truncate at apex, with transverse dense preapical zone of setae in impression. Females with broad V-shaped impression extending anteriorly from vertexal foveae, area from impression to frons apex smoothly roughened. Lacking modifications of legs, sternite VI bluntly rounded, evenly setate.
Diagnosis References
Chandler, D.S. 1987. The Sunorfa of Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 14: 67–70 [Nov. 1987] [68]
History of changes
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