Scaphobaeocera sp. B

Ivan Löbl, 2017, New species and records of Scaphobaeocera CSIKI from New Guinea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae), Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 107, pp. 33-41 : 40

Scaphobaeocera sp. B

Material examined. 1 ♂, PAPUA NG Morobe, Biaru Rd, Mt. Kolorong, 2200m, 08.VI.1992, G. CUCCODORO #19A [montane rain forest, moss on ground and vegetational debris] ( MHNG).

Comments. This species is characterized by its long antennae with the antennomeres VII, IX, X and XI similar in length and the antennomere VII conspicuously short, about as long as third of the antennomere VII. The species may be readily distinguished from its New Guinean congeners by the elytra and pronotum extremely finely punctate in combination with the lack of microsculpture and parasutural striae, and by the metaventrite notably darker than the dorsal side of the body. The aedeagus is strongly damaged and its diagnostic characters cannot be appropriately shown. Therefore, I renounce from establishing a new species based on this single available specimen.