Ocyusa yukonensis
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Genus: Ocyusa
Name
Ocyusa yukonensis Klimaszewski & Godin sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Holotype
(male). Canada, Yukon, EMAN Plot (Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network), mature white spruce and feathermoss forest, 60.5963, -134.9522, 8.VII.2003, 738 m, yellow pitfall trap (LMKM31Y), (LFC).
Paratype
Yukon, EMAN Plot, 60.5963, -134.9522, 24.VII.2003, 738 m, black pitfall trap (LMKM31B), (ECW) 1 male.
Etymology
Yukonensis - a Latin adjective derived from the Yukon Territory, Canada.
Diagnosis
Body small, subparallel, robust, uniformly dark brown, almost black; length 2.8–3.0 mm; head round in outline and almost as wide as pronotum; antennae with article 4 subquadrate, 5–10 moderately transverse, increasingly wider apicad; pronotum transverse, angular posteriad and slightly narrower than maximum width of elytra; abdomen subparallel, at base as wide as elytra (Fig. 3). MALE: male tergite 8 widely truncate apically (Fig. 32); sternite 8 slightly produced at apex (Fig. 33); median lobe of aedeagus as illustrated (Fig. 16). FEMALE: unknown.
Distribution
This native Nearctic species is known only from the type locality in the Yukon.
Bionomics
Two adults were collected in July.
Original Description
- Klimaszewski, J; Godin, B; Bourdon, C; 2012: Further contributions to the aleocharine fauna of the Yukon Territory, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) ZooKeys, 186: 207-237. doi
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