Baeocera cekalovici LÖBL

Löbl, Ivan, 2018, Review of the genus Baeocera of Chile (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2), pp. 1305-1317 : 1306

3.2 Baeocera cekalovici LÖBL

N e w r e c o r d s: CHILE: 2, Region VIII, Prov. Nuble, nr. Recinto ca 60 km E Chillan , 12.XII.1990, 400- 450 m, forest litter, Agosti & Burckhardt nr 7a ( MHNG) ; 6, Conceptión Prov., Tomé , 12.XII.1982, T. Cekalovic ( MHNG) ; 2, Conceptión Prov., Lota , 26.I.1985, T. Cekalovic ( MHNG) ; 3, Conceptión Prov., Las Escalera , 9.X.1982, T. Cekalovic ( MHNG) ; 1, Region IX (Araucaria), Prov. Cautin, Termes del Huife 27 km ENE Pucón , 39°13.617’S 71°39.291’W, degraded deciduous forest with Nothofagus, sieved, 2.I.2006, leg. M. Schülke ( ZMUB) ; 1, Cautin, 15 km NE Villarrica, Flordel Lago , 14.XII.84 - 10.II.85 S. & J. Peck, 300 m, 2 FITS Nothofagus forest ( MHNG) ; 1, Llanquihue, Frutillar Bajo, Univ. Chile Forest. Res. , 22.CII. [sic, XII] 84- 2.II. 85, S. & J. Peck, 100 m, FIT, ravine mixed forest ( MHNG) ; 1, Region IX, Prov. Malleco, Nat. Park Tolhuaca sect. Laguna Malleco , 900 m, 23-27.I.1996, D. Burckhardt nr 61a ( MHNG) ; 10, Region X (Los Lagos), Prov. Valdivia, Nat. Park de Villarica , south area, 39°27.896’S, 71°51.118’W, 1206 m, Araucaria-Nothofagus forest with bamboo, dead wood, moos and litter, sieved, 4.I.2006, leg. M. Schülke [3] ( ZMUB, MHNG) ; 10, Region X, Prov. Osorno, Nat. Park Puyehue , Aguas Calientes , 400- 500 m, 31.XII.1990 - 1.1.1991, Agosti & Burckhardt nr 25a: 1, same data but 20.XII.84 - 8.II.85, S. & J. Peck, 500 m, FIT, Derumbes Forest Trail ( MHNG) .

C o m m e n t s: The species was known from Concepción: Pinares, Estero Nonguen and Penco, and from Cautin: Lago Caburgua ( LÖBL 1983: 164). It may be distinguished by the dark body colour, the shortened sutural striae of elytra, the ventrite 1 lacking microsculpture, and the antennomere VIII only slightly shorter than the antennomere VII, in combination. Diagnostic is the internal sac with a flagellum almost straight, robust and apically bifid.