In our recent revision of the genus
Prespelea
Park, we neglected to explicitly designate a repository for the holotype of
Prespelea
enigma
Caterino & Vásquez-Vélez sp. n. This omission invalided its description, and that
species name is not yet available. We herein rectify this problem.
Introduction
Caterino and Vásquez-Vélez (2017) revised the Pselaphine genus
Prespelea
Park, redescribing two known species, and describing ten new ones from southern Appalachia.
In one of these species descriptions we neglected to designate a type repository for
the holotype of
Prespelea
enigma
Caterino & Vásquez-Vélez, which, under ICZN Article 16.4.2, renders this a nomen nudum.
We herein resolve this problem.
Repositories
Specimens came from our own collections, and through loans from several institutions:
CUAC
Clemson University Arthropod Collection, Clemson, SC
FMNH
The Field Museum, Chicaco, IL
UNHC
University of New Hampshire Arthropod Collection, Durham, NH
Taxonomy
Tribe
Speleobamini
Park 1951: 51
Genus
Prespelea
Park, 1953: 251
Taxon classification
Animalia
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Prespelea
enigma
Caterino & Vásquez-Vélez
sp. n.
Type material.
Holotype male: USA: NC: Macon Co., Jones Gap,
35.0785°N, 83.2923°W
, S. Myers, vii.22.2015, sifted litter (CUAC000026531, DNA Extract MSC-2403); deposited
in FMNH. Other material: 4 males & 6 females, NC: Macon Co., 11 mi. SW Franklin, Back
Country info center, VIII-17/21-1990, hardwood litter nr. dead logs, S. O’Keefe; UNHC,
FMNH, CUAC. 1 female: NC: Macon Co. Highlands, vi.8.1973, Coker Rhododendron Trail,
litter under rhododendron, W. Suter; FMNH.
Diagnosis.
This species is externally indistinguishable from
P.
copelandi
except in the following male characters: metaventrite elevated anteromedially to form
small but distinct median tubercle about one-fourth metaventral length behind mesocoxae
(Fig. 21), metaventrite moderately flattened behind; posteroapical corner of male
metatrochanter produced to form short, incurved flange (Fig. 32), the whole trochanter
being somewhat parallelogram-shaped; aedeagus with sides weakly sinuate toward apex,
apicodorsal ridges weakly divergent to apical corners; apical margin subtruncate to
weakly emarginate; internal sac with broad band of about 18 short, sclerotized teeth.
Female not definitely associated. TL 1.76–1.88mm; Max. width (EW) 0.61–0.71mm.
Supplementary Material
XML Treatment for
Prespelea
enigma