Loncovilius barclayi, Reyes-Hernández & Hansen & Shaw & Solodovnikov, 2024

Reyes-Hernández, José L., Hansen, Aslak Kappel, Shaw, Josh Jenkins & Solodovnikov, Alexey, 2024, Phylogeny-based taxonomic revision and niche modelling of the rove beetle genus Loncovilius Germain, 1903 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 202 (1), pp. 1-42 : 33

semiflavus group

Included species: Loncovilius barclayi sp. nov. and L. semiflavus (Fairmaire and Germain, 1862) .

Diagnosis: Head about as wide as long, without coarse non-setiferous punctures; nuchal ridge absent dorsally, nuchal and infraorbital ridges joined; gula without isodiametric microsculpture in the middle; postmandibular ridge located close to eye margin; PMP (usually reduced); females with antennomere 11 distinctly longer than antennomere 10 (a11:a10 ratio>1.5). Pronotum outline evenly curved, with one SLSP. Protibiae not sexually dimorphic, in both sexes without laterodorsal row of thick spines. Tergites III and IV with only a few rows of coarse punctures of moderate density, with large impunctate area near apical margin ( Fig. 9D ); tergite VIII with medial apical emargination in both sexes; ovipositor, its second gonocoxite with one macroseta medially ( Fig. 9G ).

Figures

Figure 9. Details of the abdominal structures of Loncovilius species; tergites III and IV (A–E); ovipositor (F–H). A, Loncovilius germaini. B, L. variabilis. C, L. edwardsianus. D, L. semiflavus. E, L. lividipennis. F, L. impunctus. G, L. semiflavus. H, L. edwardsianus.