Laboulbenia cafii Thaxt.

MB#147111

Fig. 26B–C

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 35: 162 (Thaxter 1899). –

Type: [Not designated] [Ind. loc.] “ On Cafius seminitens Horn, and C. canescens Mann, U.S. National Museum, Los Angeles, California. On C. sericeus Holme, Brit. Mus. No. 437, Great Britain. On Cafius sp., Brit. Mus. No. 425, “Europe”, No. 395, Hong Kong; C. bisulcatus Sol., Chili. On elytra and legs”; FH.

Diagnostic features

Cell V oval, as long and nearly as broad as cell IV, connected with cell III at the inner corner. Insertion cell very flattened, almost reduced to a blackened groove. Primary appendage compact, not separated into the two classical sets. Basal cell of appendage large and flattened, supporting several small, irregularly shaped cells which bear a variable number of short and simple branches, each consisting of 3–4 superposed, short, inflated cells which are separated from each other by constricted, dark septa. [Detailed descriptions: Thaxter 1908; Sugiyama 1973; Santamaria 1998]

Distribution and hosts

On Col. Staphylinidae of the genera Cafius, Remus Holme, 1837 and Phucobius Sharp, 1874 (the latter according to Sugiyama 1973) from Europe: France, Spain, United Kingdom, former Yugoslavia; America: Chile, USA; Asia: Hong Kong, India, Japan; and Oceania: Australia (Santamaria et al. 1991). Also in Italy (Colla 1934), Canary Islands (Arndt & Santamaria 2004), China (Shen & Ye 2006), Sweden (Huggert 2010), and Singapore (Haelewaters & Yaakop 2014). The old record from Belgium by De Kesel (1998) belongs to L. littoralis (De Kesel & Haelewaters 2014a) .

Collections examined from Denmark

On Remus sericeus Holme, 1837 (Col. Staphylinidae Staphylininae)

DENMARK – Fyn (F) • Knudshoved; 55°18.212′ N, 10°49.828′ E; PG13; 11 Nov. 2018; JP 1226; JP det.; ZMUC C-F-123753 . – Nordøstjylland (NEJ) • Deget Island ved Fredrikshavn; 57°27.066′ N, 10°34.785′ E; NJ96; 10 Jul. 1893; J.P. Johansen Dry0145; J.P. Johansen det.; ZMUC C-F-124213 .

Remarks

First record from Denmark. This species is cosmopolitan, so its presence in Denmark was expectable.