Description
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Description. Body length 1.8–1.9 mm, width 0.3 mm, approximately uniformly dark brown with tarsi, antennal bases and mouthparts paler (Fig. 5); integument with weak microsculpture, sculpticells irregularly hexagonal, pubescence short, except for slightly longer on head and abdomen, yellowish-brown in artificial light, moderately dense. Head approximately round and slightly elongate, feebly carinate basally, tempora approximately as long as three times the maximal diameter of eye (Fig. 5); antennae slim with articles 5–10 moderately transverse (Fig. 5); pronotum slightly transverse, broadly rounded laterally and posteriorly, broadest in basal half, pubescence directed anteriorly on apical third of the midline and obliquely laterally elsewhere (Fig. 5); elytra short and strongly transverse, subparallel, hind margin approximately straight, pubescence directed obliquely or straight posteriad (Fig. 5); abdomen parallel-sided, three basal tergites strongly impressed basally (Fig. 5). Male. Tergite 8 slightly emarginated apically and bearing irregular crenulation and two larger lateral teeth (Fig. 47); sternite 8 elongate and slightly produced apically (Fig. 48). Median lobe of the aedeagus moderately broad and flattened, venter of tubus arcuate, apex slightly produced ventrally (Figs 45, 46), apical sclerites of internal sac V-shaped in dorsal view (Fig. 44); paramere as illustrated (Fig. 43). Female. Tergite 8 truncate apically and bearing minute emargination (Fig. 50); sternite 8 broadly rounded apically and pointed (Fig. 51). Spermatheca S-shaped, with tubular capsule, stem narrow and sinuate (Fig. 49).
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- First record of the genus Schistoglossa Kraatz from Canada with descriptions of seven new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
Distribution
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Geographic distribution (Map 5). Known from Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada and New Hampshire in the United States.