Neolindus rudiculus HERMAN , 1991

Volker, A., 2012, Two new species of Neolindus from Peru and Venezuela (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Cylindroxystina), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (6), pp. 291-297 : 297

Neolindus rudiculus HERMAN, 1991

Material examined:

Venezuela: 1 , Carabobo prov., Bejuma, Carro de Paja , 10°16'N, 68°14'W, 1500 m, 12.I.2007, leg. Brachat.

Comment:

The original description is based on a single male from “ Venezuela: Aragua: Rancho Grande, 15 km north Maracay, 1500 m ” collected in February ( Herman 1991). The above female was identified using the key based on external characters (without secondary sexual characters) in Herman (1991), where it keys out as either N. rudiculus or N. brachiatus Herman, 1991 at couplet 22. According to Herman (1991), N. brachiatus has the elytra and abdomen darker than the head reddish-brown, whereas the body of N. rudiculus is of uniformly reddish-brown coloration. In this respect and in other external characters, the above female agrees with the original description of N. rudiculus .

The above specimen was sifted from leaf litter in a cloud forest (Brachat pers. comm.).