Speleobamini Park 1951: 51

Caterino, Michael S. & Vásquez-Vélez, Laura M., 2022, A New Species of the Southern Appalachian Genus Prespelea Park (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (4), pp. 589-594 : 590-591

Tribe Speleobamini Park 1951: 51 Genus Prespelea Park 1953: 251

MODIFICATION OF THE CATERINO AND VÁSQUEZVÉLEZ (2017) KEY TO SPECIES

1. Specimens with one or more of the following: eyes and wings well-developed, and/or (if eyes or wings reduced) with metatrochanters bearing some form of hook; often also with weak to prominent metaventral process (males) .......... 2

1′. Specimens, if small-eyed, then without modified metaventrite or metatrochanters (females) ....................................... (not keyed further)

2. Eye well-developed, comprising more than 6 ommatidia............................................... 2b

2′. Eye extremely reduced, with fewer than 5 ommatidia................................................... ...... 6 (in Caterino and VÁsQuez-VÉlez 2017)

2b. Eye fully developed, with>20 ommatidia, winged (humeri wider than prothorax)........... ...... 3 (in Caterino and VÁsQuez-VÉlez 2017)

2b′. Eye reduced, with <10 ommatidia ( Fig. 4 ); not fully winged, humeri narrowed to prothorax ................... P. videns , new species

Figures

Figs. 4–7. Prespelea videns, new species. Photos: 4) Lateral habitus; 5) Dorsal habitus; 6) Aedeagus, dorsal view.