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BC1EF35FFFF0304330B5C7B3C3BE8B7A.text	BC1EF35FFFF0304330B5C7B3C3BE8B7A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Neolindus brachati Assing 2012	<div><p>Neolindus brachati sp. n., Neolindus luciamans sp. n.</p> <p>Zusammenfassung</p> <p>Zwei Arten der Gattung Neolindus Scheerpeltz, 1933 werden beschrieben, abgebildet und von ähnlichen bzw. geographisch nahen Arten unterschieden: N. luciamans sp. n. (Peru: Provinz Huanuco) und N. brachati sp. n. (Venezuela: Provinz Carabobo). Neolindus rudiculus Herman, 1991 wird erstmals seit der Originalbeschreibung nachgewiesen.</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>The subtribe Cylindroxystina is one of the few Neotropical paederine taxa that have been subject to modern revisions. According to Herman (1991), it comprises two genera and 47 species, Cylindroxystus Bierig, 1943 (14 species) and Neolindus Scheerpeltz, 1933 (33 species). Four additional species of Neolindus were described recently by Asenjo (2011) and Irmler (2011).</p> <p>Both Cylindroxystus and Neolindus have been collected remarkably rarely and in small numbers; numerous species are represented only by single specimens. The revision by Herman (1991) is based on a total of merely 37 (Cylindroxystus) and 79 specimens (Neolindus), respectively. Most of them were found in leaf litter and at lower elevations, but the reproduction habitat is essentially unknown.</p> <p>In material of Staphylinidae collected by Volker Brachat (Geretsried) in Venezuela in 2005 and 2007 and by Günter Riedel (München) in Peru in October 2010, five specimens of Neolindus were discovered, a female of unknown identity (probably undescribed), a female of N. rudiculus Herman, 1991, and three specimens (two males and one female) belonging to two undescribed species from Peru and Venezuela.</p> <p>Material and methods</p> <p>The material treated in this study is deposited in the author´s collection.</p> <p>The morphological studies were conducted using a Stemi SV 11 microscope (Zeiss Germany) and a Jenalab compound microscope (Carl Zeiss Jena). A digital camera (Nikon Coolpix 995) was used for the photographs.</p> <p>Head length was measured from the anterior margin of the frons to the posterior margin of the head, elytral length at the suture from the apex of the scutellum to the posterior margin of the elytra, total length from the anterior margin of the mandibles to the apex of the abdomen, the length of the forebody from the anterior margin of the mandibles to the posterior margin of the elytra, aedeagal length from the apex of the internal structures or from the apex of the dorsal plate (whichever is the longest) to the base of the capsule. The parameral side of the aedeagus (i.e., the side where the sperm duct enters) is referred to as the ventral, the opposite side as the dorsal aspect.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BC1EF35FFFF0304330B5C7B3C3BE8B7A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Volker, A.	Volker, A. (2012): Two new species of Neolindus from Peru and Venezuela (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Cylindroxystina). Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (6): 291-297, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.291-297, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.291-297
BC1EF35FFFF1304130BDC7E0C2608CAB.text	BC1EF35FFFF1304130BDC7E0C2608CAB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Neolindus luciamans Assing 2012	<div><p>Neolindus luciamans sp. n. (Figs 1-10)</p> <p>Type material:</p> <p>Holotype : “ Peru - Huanuco Prov., Panguana Station at <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-74.933334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-9.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -74.933334/lat -9.616667)">Rio Llullapichis</a>, 9°37'S, 74°56'W, 260 m, at light, 1.-23.X.2010, G. Riedel / Holotypus  Neolindus luciamans sp. n., det. V. Assing 2012”.</p> <p>Etymology:</p> <p>The specific epithet is composed of the Latin noun lux (light) and the present participle of the Latin verb amare (to love). It refers to the fact that the holotype was attracted to a light source.</p> <p>Description:</p> <p>Body length 7 mm; length of forebody 3 mm. Coloration: head and pronotum reddish; elytra reddish-brown; abdomen brown with reddish apex; legs and antennae pale-reddish.</p> <p>Head (Fig. 2) strongly transverse, 1.35 times as broad as long, widest across eyes; posterior angles moderately marked; dorsal surface only laterally with few setiferous macropunctures, median portion extensively without macropunctures, but with relatively dense micropunctation; microsculpture absent; on either side with only one trichobothrium (for illustrations of this structure see Herman 1991) near antero-dorsal margin of eye. Eyes strongly convex and moderately large, approximately twice as long as postgenae and distinctly shorter than distance between posterior margin of eye and neck. Antenna with antennomeres II and III distinctly elongate and of subequal length; IV with dense pubescence, distinctly shorter than III, and weakly oblong; V-VII approximately as broad as long; X weakly transverse; XI little longer than X.</p> <p>Pronotum (Fig. 1) 1.1 times as broad as long and 1.12 times as wide as head; posterior angles weakly marked, broadly rounded; punctation moderately coarse and moderately dense; on either side of the broadly impunctate midline without distinct dorsal series of punctures (i.e., dorsal series not separated from lateral punctures); interstices without microsculpture.</p> <p>Elytra (Fig. 1) slightly (1.05 x) longer and distinctly (1.15 x) broader than pronotum; humeral angles marked; punctation coarser than that of pronotum, defined, randomly distributed (except for sutural series), and moderately dense; interstices in central portion approximately as broad as diameter of punctures and without microsculpture. Hind wings fully developed. Metatarsomere I distinctly longer than II.</p> <p>Abdomen slightly narrower than elytra; punctation coarse and dense on anterior, much finer and sparser on posterior tergites (Fig. 3); posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe.</p> <p>: posterior margin of tergite VIII weakly and obtusely produced in the middle (Fig. 4); sternite VII strongly transverse, posteriorly with pronounced emargination, on either side of this emargination with distinct process (Fig. 5); sternite VIII (Figs 6-7) approximately as long as broad, posteriorly with conspicuous modifications: in the middle with small excision, laterally with pronounced process, and with acute tooth-like process between lateral process and median excision; tergite IX (Fig. 8) with anterior portion in the middle much longer than posterior processes and than tergite X, anterior portion without median suture; aedeagus (Figs 9-10) approximately 0.9 mm long, strongly sclerotised, and of distinctive shape.</p> <p>: unknown.</p> <p>Comparative notes:</p> <p>The similarly modified male secondary sexual characters, the similar general morphology of the aedeagus, and similar external characters suggest that N. luciamans is closely related to N. dichymus Herman, 1991, whose description is based on a single male from Ecuador. It is distinguished from this species by slightly larger body size, the posteriorly produced male tergite VIII, the much broader posterior excavation of the male sternite VII, the differently shaped posterior modifications of the male sternite VIII, as well as by the basally constricted aedeagus with differently shaped apical structures. For illustrations of N. dichymus see figures 213-217 in Herman (1991).</p> <p>Distribution and natural history:</p> <p>The type locality is situated in Huanuco province, central Peru, near the junction of the Llullapichis and Pachitea rivers. The holotype was collected with a light trap at an altitude of 260 m in October.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BC1EF35FFFF1304130BDC7E0C2608CAB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Volker, A.	Volker, A. (2012): Two new species of Neolindus from Peru and Venezuela (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Cylindroxystina). Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (6): 291-297, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.291-297, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.291-297
BC1EF35FFFF3304430BDC155C2078958.text	BC1EF35FFFF3304430BDC155C2078958.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Neolindus brachati Assing 2012	<div><p>Neolindus brachati sp. n. (Figs 11-20)</p> <p>Type material:</p> <p>Holotype : “ Venezuela, Carabobo. Mun. Bejuma, Via Palmichal, 750-850 m, XI.2005, leg. Brachat / Holotypus  Neolindus brachati sp. n., det. V. Assing 2012“. Paratype : same data as holotype.</p> <p>Etymology:</p> <p>This species is dedicated to Volker Brachat, specialist of Pselaphinae, to whom I owe all the Neolindus specimens treated in this paper, including the type material of both newly described species.</p> <p>Description:</p> <p>Body length 5.0- 5.3 mm; length of forebody 2.5-2.6 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 11. Coloration: body blackish; legs, antennae, and mouthparts reddish.</p> <p>Head (Fig. 12) strongly transverse, approximately 1.4 times as broad as long, widest across eyes; posterior angles weakly marked; dorsal surface with sparse macro- and micropunctation; microsculpture absent; on either side with only one trichobothrium near antero-dorsal margin of eye. Eyes moderately convex and large, approximately three times as long as postocular region and approximately as long as distance between posterior margin of eye and neck, or even slightly larger. Antenna with antennomeres II and III elongate and of subequal length; IV with dense pubescence, distinctly shorter than III, and weakly transverse; V-X of gradually and slightly increasing width and increasingly transverse; X almost 1.5 times as broad as long; XI little longer than X.</p> <p>Pronotum (Fig. 12) 1.15-1.20 times as broad as long and approximately 1.15 times as broad as head; posterior angles weakly marked, broadly rounded; punctation moderately coarse and moderately dense; on either side of the broadly impunctate midline without distinct dorsal series of punctures (i.e., dorsal series not separated from lateral punctures); interstices without microsculpture.</p> <p>Elytra (Fig. 12) nearly 1.1 times as long and 1.1 times as broad as pronotum; humeral angles marked; punctation coarser than that of pronotum, defined, except for sutural series not arranged in distinct series, and moderately dense; interstices in central portion on average broader than diameter of punctures and without microsculpture. Hind wings probably fully developed. Metatarsomere I slightly to distinctly longer than II.</p> <p>Abdomen (Fig. 13) approximately 0.9 times as broad as elytra; punctation coarse and dense on anterior, much finer and sparser on posterior tergites; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe; posterior margin of tergite VIII in both sexes weakly convex, almost truncate in the middle (Fig. 14).</p> <p>: sternite VII moderately transverse, posterior margin weakly concave in the middle (Fig. 15); sternite VIII oblong and with broad, moderately deep, and basally acute posterior excision (Fig. 16); tergite IX with anterior portion in the middle undivided, much shorter than posterior processes, and shorter than tergite X (Fig. 17); aedeagus (Figs 18-20) 0.85 mm long, with ventral process of distinctive shape and with two long sclerotised internal structures.</p> <p>: posterior margin of sternite VIII truncate.</p> <p>Comparative notes:</p> <p>Neolindus brachati is distinguished from all its congeners by the male sexual characters. It is additionally separated from the three species previously recorded from Venezuela as follows:</p> <p>from N. plectrus Herman, 1991 by the darker coloration (N. plectrus: head and pronotum reddish-brown), the presence of macropunctation in the median dorsal portion of the head, the presence of only one pair of cephalic trichobothria, the transverse pronotum, and the longer elytra (N. plectrus: shorter than pronotum);</p> <p>from N. brachiatus Herman, 1991 by the darker coloration (N. brachiatus: head and pronotum reddish-brown), the presence of macropunctation in the median dorsal portion of the head, the presence of only one pair of cephalic trichobothria, the transverse pronotum, and the longer and broader elytra (N. brachiatus: elytra shorter and narrower than pronotum);</p> <p>from N. rudiculus Herman, 1991 by the darker coloration (N. rudiculus: body reddish-brown), the presence of macropunctation in the median dorsal portion of the head, the presence of only one pair of cephalic trichobothria, much larger eyes, the transverse pronotum, and the longer and broader elytra (N. rudiculus: elytra shorter and narrower than pronotum).</p> <p>Distribution and natural history:</p> <p>The type locality is situated near Bejuma, Carabobo province, northern Venezuela. The type specimens were sifted from leaf litter in a secondary forest at an altitude of 750-850 m (Brachat pers. comm.).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BC1EF35FFFF3304430BDC155C2078958	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Volker, A.	Volker, A. (2012): Two new species of Neolindus from Peru and Venezuela (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Cylindroxystina). Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (6): 291-297, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.291-297, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.291-297
BC1EF35FFFF630443101C507C7088B16.text	BC1EF35FFFF630443101C507C7088B16.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Neolindus rudiculus Herman 1991	<div><p>Neolindus rudiculus HERMAN, 1991</p> <p>Material examined:</p> <p>Venezuela: 1 , Carabobo prov., Bejuma, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-68.23333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.266666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -68.23333/lat 10.266666)">Carro de Paja</a>, 10°16'N, 68°14'W, 1500 m, 12.I.2007, leg. Brachat.</p> <p>Comment:</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The above specimen was sifted from leaf litter in a cloud forest (Brachat pers. comm.).</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>I am indebted to Volker Brachat (Geretsried) for the generous gift of Staphylinidae collected during several field trips to Venezuela, to Volker Brachat and Günter Riedel (München) for the gift of light trap catches from Peru, as well as to Lee H. Herman (New York) for his assistance with the identification of part of the Neolindus material and critical comments on an earlier draft of the manuscript. Benedikt Feldmann (Münster) proof-read the manuscript.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BC1EF35FFFF630443101C507C7088B16	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Volker, A.	Volker, A. (2012): Two new species of Neolindus from Peru and Venezuela (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Cylindroxystina). Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (6): 291-297, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.291-297, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.291-297
