Species Tooloom archaicus Chandler, 2001
- Tooloom archaicus Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [191].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Styx River State Forest, Cedar Pit Floral Reserve, 42 km SE Wollomombi, NSW.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
IBRA
NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: predator, terrestrial.
Diagnosis
Length 1.6-1.8 mm. Body with short setae appressed, with long suberect setae scattered over body. Head and pronotum coarsely granulate, both elongate. Head deeply and broadly transversely impressed between eyes; frontal rostrum prominent, only slightly depressed between antennal tubercles. Pronotum with median longitudinal impression on disc shallow; antebasal sulcus vague and interrupted by indistinct longitudinal ridges near lateral antebasal foveae. Abdomen with discal carinae of visible tergite 1 (IV) extending to middle, separated at base by one-third tergite width, impression between carinae setose primarily around the mediobasal foveae. Male eyes with about 50 facets; protibiae and mesotibiae lacking preapical spurs. Visible sternite 3 (V) with narrow glabrous basolateral excavations beneath apex of 2 (IV), 2 (IV) with small tufts of long setae at apical margin obscuring excavations. Female eyes with about 25 facets.
Diagnosis References
Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [191]
History of changes
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