Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 76. (Budapest 1984)
Last, H.: Further new species of New Guinea Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in the collections of the Hungarian and British Museums
ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICl Tomus 76. Budapest, 1984 p. 133-138. Further new species of New Guinea Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in the collections of the Hungarian and British Museums by H. LAST, Storrington/England Abstract — 12 new species are described from Papua New Guinea. With the exception of 1 species (Stilicoderus kiloloensis ) the remaining 11 species are in the subfamily Tachyporinae ; Mycetoporus (3), Bolitobius (1), Coproporus (7). Types of 7 species are placed in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum and 4 in the British Museum (Natural History) and also in my own collection. Collectors were J. BALOGH, I. LOKSA. L. BÍRÓ and Dr. R. HORNABROOK (New Zealand). Continuing my studies of Papua New Guinea Staphylinid material, I examined specimens from the collection of the Museum at Budapest and incorporated specimens taken by Dr. Richard Hornabrook, Types of which are placed in the British Museum (Natural History). I am indebted to DC. Z. KASZAB for the opportunity of examining the material in his charge and the Authorities of the British Museum (Natural History) for allowing me to work with their collections. I am also most grateful to Mr. Jonathan COÛTER for typing this paper. Descriptions of new species Coproporus KRAATZ Coproporus KRAATZ, 1858, Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. p. ex; 1958 Naturg. Ins. Deutsch., 2: 399. This genus is well represented in Papua New Guinea. FAUVEL, BERNHAUER, CAMERON and myself have all described species. Several of these including types are deposited in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). The seven species described here are new to science. Coproporus clarus sp. n. This species differs from C. ordinarius LAST by the brighter colour, antennae not so robust, paler, the elytra less densely and not so strongly punctured. Reddish-yellow, head and posterior half of elytra darker, and extending along lateral margins. — Head broader than long, shining, without puncturation or microsculpture. Antennae with basal three segments longer than broad, the third strongly narrowed at base, fourth segment quadrate, segments five to ten quadrate to transverse, last segment longer than the penultimate, bluntly acuminate. — Pronotum nearly twice as broad as long, shining, without puncturation or microsculpture, broadest at posterior margin. — Elytra twice as broad as long, a little narrower at posterior margins, shining, finely irregularly punctured, suture narrowly bordered. — Abdomen finely punctured, with lateral bristles. — Length 2.5 mm. Holotype unique, Stephansort, Astrolabe Bai, 1898, leg. BÍRÓ in the Hungarian Natural History Museum.
