Australosagola minsangi, Choi & Chandler & Park, 2025

Choi, Su-Ho, Chandler, Donald S. & Park, Jong-Seok, 2025, Australosagola, a new genus of pselaphine beetles from southern Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae, Faronitae) with descriptions of seven new species, ZooKeys 1245, pp. 177-205 : 177-205

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1245.151556
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15930435
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scientific name	Australosagola minsangi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Australosagola minsangi sp. nov.

Figs 1 E View Figure 1 , 2 D View Figure 2 , 6 View Figure 6 , 13 View Figure 13

Type material.

Holotype. Australia: New South Wales: • ♂ ( ANIC), “ AUSTRALIA: NWS, Styx / River St. For, Cedar / Pit Floral Res ., 42 / km SE Wollomombi // IV- 20 / V- 12-93, N-S / DSChandler, FIT old / temperate rainfor. ” . Paratypes (n = 46; 29 ♂♂, 17 ♀♀). Australia: New South Wales: 12 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀ (2 ♂♂ slide-mounted; • 1 ♂ aedeagus dissected; FMNH), New England N. P., Robinson’s Knob Rd. , 1 km E Pk. gate, Noth. moorei forest, slope, 1,320 m, 30°30'S, 152°24'E, 29 XII 1986 – 14 I 1987, FMHD#86-689 , flight intercept (window) trap, A. Newton & M. Thayer 781 GoogleMaps ; • 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀ (1 ♀ slide-mounted; FMNH), New England N. P., Robinson’s Knob Rd. , 1 km E Pk. gate, Noth. moorei forest, 1,305 m, level, 30°30'S, 152°24'E, 29 XII 1986 – 14 I 1987, FMHD#86-686 , flight intercept (window) trap, A. Newton & M. Thayer 780 GoogleMaps ; • 1 ♀ ( UNHC), Styx River S. F. N-S Brushwood Rd. , 29 km SE Wollomombi, 960 m, 25 II – 15 III 1993, FIT trap cut rainforest, D. S. Chandler ; • 1 ♀ (slide-mounted; UNHC), Mt. Duval Fire Rd. , 15 km NW Armidale, 1,320 m, 14 II 1993, sift leaf litter Euc. laevopinea dry sclerophyll, D. S. Chandler ; • 1 ♀ ( UNHC) Styx River S. F. Thru Road , 24 km SE Wollomombi, 980 m, 4 III 1993, sift Eucalypt & etc. leaf litter cut wet sclerophyll, D. S. Chandler ; • 1 ♀ ( UNHC), 15 km NW Armidale Mt. Duval, Tin Weir Crk. , 1,200 m, 14–29 III 1993, FIT, dry sclerophyll, D. S. Chandler ; • 1 ♀ ( UNHC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 6 XI – 1 XII 1993, N – S FIT, old wet sclerophyll, K. MacGregor ; • 1 ♀ ( UNHC), Styx River St. For Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 25 II – 15 III 1993, N-S FIT trap old wet sclerophyll, D. S. Chandler ; • 2 ♂♂ ( UNHC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 15 III 1993, Eucal. . & etc. leaf litter old wet sclerophyll, D. S. Chandler ; • 1 ♂ 1 ♀ ( UNHC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 19 I – 2 II 1994, N-S FIT, old wet sclerophyll, K. MacGregor ; • 2 ♂♂ ( UNHC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 3–15 II 1994, E-W FIT, old wet sclerophyll, K. MacGregor ; • 1 ♂ (aedeagus dissected; UNHC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 22–24 II 1993, N-S FIT trap old wet sclerophyll, D. S. Chandler ; • 1 ♂ (aedeagus dissected; UNHC), 40 km SW Singleton Darkey Crk. , 17 III 1993, Eucal. salligna litter by stream, D. S. Chandler ; • 1 ♂ (aedeagus dissected; UNHC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 42 km SE Wollomombi, 935 m, 3–15 II 1994, N-S FIT, old rainforest, K. MacGregor ; • 1 ♂ (aedeagus dissected; UNHC), Styx River St. For. Brushwood Rd. , 29 km SE Wollomombi, 960 m, 3–15 II 1994, FIT trap E-W, cut rainforest, K. MacGregor ; • 1 ♀ ( UNHC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 3–15 II 1994, N-S FIT, old wet sclerophyll, K. MacGregor ; • 1 ♂ 2 ♀♀ (1 ♂ mounted in micro vial; UNHC), Mt. Wilson , 18 VII 1983, FMHD#83-276 , rainforest litter nr. stream, L. E. Watrous ; • 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (1 ♂ aedeagus dissected; UNHC), M. Wilson , 20 VII 1983, FMHD#83-279 , rainforest litter nr. stream, L. E. Watrous ; • 1 ♂ (slide-mounted; ANIC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 25 II – 15 III 1993, E-W FIT, old wet sclerophyll, D. S. Chandler ; • 1 ♂ ( ANIC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 25 VI 1993, sift rotten old wet sclerophyll, D. S. Chandler ; • 2 ♂♂ ( ANIC), Styx River St. For, Thru Road , 24 km SE Wollomombi, 980 m, 3–15 II 1994, FIT trap E-W, cut wet sclerophyll, K. MacGregor ; • 1 ♀ ( ANIC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 15 XII 1993 – 2 I 1994, N-S FIT, old wet sclerophyll, K. MacGregor ; • 1 ♀ ( ANIC), Styx River St. For, Cedar Pit Floral Res. , 40 km SE Wollomombi, 990 m, 3–18 I 1994, N-S FIT, old wet sclerophyll, K. MacGregor .

Diagnosis.

Australosagola minsangi sp. nov. can be easily distinguished from other species by the short and strongly transverse antennomeres (Fig. 6 A, B, G View Figure 6 ), as well as antennomere 1 of both sexes having a pit on the dorsal surface (Fig. 6 C, D, H View Figure 6 , black arrows).

Male description.

Length 2.8–3.5 mm. Head. In dorsal view with concavity at base of frontal rostrum around frontal fovea. Rostrum broad and anterolaterally angulate (Fig. 6 C View Figure 6 ). Antennomere 1 stout, subquadrate, and slightly longer than wide, slightly curved medially, with dorsal preapical fovea (Fig. 6 A, G, H View Figure 6 ); 2 slightly longer than wide and subconical; 3 smallest, forming distinct disc and transverse; 4–10 subquadrate and transverse (Fig. 6 A, G View Figure 6 ). Thorax. Prothorax slightly broader than long, widest at midpoint (Fig. 6 I View Figure 6 ). Elytra with two subbasal elytral foveae, three basal elytral foveae (1 being fovea at base of sutural stria), discal elytral foveae with short discal striae, and fovea in sutural striae. Hind wings fully developed. Metatrochanter angulate on ventral margin (Fig. 6 E, J View Figure 6 ). Abdomen. Abdominal sternites 4 and 5 (VI – VII) medially impressed (Fig. 6 E View Figure 6 ), 5 (VII) with lateral preapical and apical rows of thick setae near middle (Fig. 6 E, K View Figure 6 ). Genitalia. Length 0.46 mm, aedeagus symmetrical, pair of elongate projections at midpoint of median lobe widening to apices, longer than parameres, apices bluntly rounded (Fig. 6 L – N View Figure 6 ). Apex of median lobe with small median spine visible in ventral and basoventral views (Fig. 6 L, M View Figure 6 , black arrows). In lateral view, projections at base of median lobe strongly curved (Fig. 6 N View Figure 6 ), appearing broadly V-shaped in basolateral view and directed apically from basal margin of median lobe, lateral margins of median lobe spinose at middle in ventral view, phallobase margins bluntly rounded at middle in ventral view, in lateral view flat and shortly curved (Fig. 6 L – N View Figure 6 ).

Female sexual characters.

Metatrochanter with posterior margin convex (Fig. 6 F View Figure 6 ). Abdominal sternites 4–5 (VI – VII) convex, lacking thick setae at apex of abdominal sternite 5 (VII; Fig. 6 F View Figure 6 ).

Etymology.

This species is named for a biological control specialist who has been an enthusiastic supporter of this study, Min-Sang Jang.

Distribution.

New South Wales (Fig. 13 View Figure 13 , black squares).

Habitat.

Specimens of this species were collected using flight intercept traps (F. I. T.), by sifting leaf or rotten woods in old and cut dry and wet sclerophyll Eucalyptus forests and in old warm-temperate rainforests.