Ctenandropus mirus (Lea, 1925) Lea, 1925

Shaw, Josh Jenkins & Solodovnikov, Alexey, 2016, Systematic and biogeographic review of the Staphylinini rove beetles of Lord Howe Island with description of new species and taxonomic changes (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), ZooKeys 638, pp. 1-25 : 8-9

Ctenandropus mirus (Lea, 1925) comb. n.

Material examined.

Type material. Holotype: male [mounted on the same card with two female paratypes but marked with letters ‘TY’ by Lea], ' mirus Lea, Type, Lord Howe I. / I.12703 Heterothops mirus Lea Lord Howe, also slide [ Lea’s handwritten label]/ SAMA Database No. 25-036156 (SAM); Paratypes: 2 females [mounted on the same card with the holotype], same labels as in holotype; 1 male, 2 females [mounted on the same card], 'On Kentia Lord Howe I. A.M. Lea / co-type / Heterothops mirus Lea co-type, Lord Howe I.' (SAM).

Taxon discussion.

Heterothops mirus Lea, 1925 was originally described from Lord Howe Island, based on specimens collected on Kentia palms. Lea (1925) noted its affiliation with Heterothops magniceps Bernhauer, 1920, in particular because of the unusually wide neck and extremely small eyes. The genus Ctenandropus was described by Cameron (1926) for a single species Ctenandropus nigriceps Cameron, 1926 that is presumably broadly distributed in Australia and Indonesia. Smetana (1988) complemented the detailed original description of Ctenandropus by additional diagnostic notes, redescribed Ctenandropus nigriceps and transferred Heterothops magniceps Lea, 1925 to that genus. Ctenandropus is one of the most easily recognizable genera of Amblyopinina due to its rather flat, small yellowish to brown body with very broad head having no neck constriction, and black combs in both sexes on the first mesotarsomere. The genus has wide distribution in the Oriental and Australo-Pacific regions and its species need revision which is not within the scope of this paper. Based on the study of type material of Heterothops mirus kept at the South Australian Museum which fully matches the diagnosis of Ctenandropus , we propose the new combination Ctenandropus mirus (Lea, 1925). Species level identification of the Ctenandropus from LHI must be further verified, as stated above.