A new species of the genus Ochthebius (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with a description of the larva

By

Yoshitomi, Hiroyuki
Karube, Haruki
Hayashi, Masakazu

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

855

Pages

95-107

Subjects

Bonin Islands , chaetotaxy , Ochthebiinae , Ochthebiini , Staphylinoidea

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.855.35677

 

Abstract

A new species of the genus Ochthebius, O. (O.) sasakiisp. nov., is described from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, with a description of the larva. This record is the first of the family Hydraenidae from the Ogasawara Islands. This species belongs to the punctatus species group and is similar to two Japanese species, O. (O.) inermis Sharp, 1884 and O. (O.) danjo Nakane, 1990, but it differs from them in both adult and larval characters. The larva of O. (O.) inermis is also described for comparison.