New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts

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Species in sympatry: Pselaphotheseus of Campbell Island (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

CHRISTOPHER E. CARLTON

Louisiana State Arthropod Museum
Department of Entomology
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, USA
email: ccarlto@unix1.sncc.1su.edu

RICHARD A. B. LESCHEN^*

Landcare Research
Mt Albert Research Centre
Auckland, New Zealand
email: leschenr@landcare.cri.nz

Abstract  Pselaphotheseus ihupuku, new species, is described from Campbell Island, New Zealand and compared with the previously described Campbell Island pselaphine, P. hippolytae Park. Additional collecting records of P. hippolytae are also provided. Both species are apparently endemic to Campbell Island, and coexist in sympatry there. Entomological surveys of New Zealand's subantarctic island groups are incomplete, however, and the genus may be more widespread than is currently recognised.

Keywords  subantarctic; speciation; biogeography; taxonomy; morphology

^*Author for correspondence.
Z01008
Received 12 February 2001; accepted 3 August 2001

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2001, Vol. 28: 387-393

0301-4223/01/2804-0387 $7.00/0   (c) The Royal Society of New Zealand 2001

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