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Lissohypnus fullertoni Frank and Kelly, new species. Figures 2, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d In March 2014, SLK sent an unidentified xantholinine specimen suspected to be Neohypnus to JHF for identification. It proved to be a male Lissohypnus, but was not L. texanus. For further clarification of its systematic position especially in relation to the genera Xantholinus and Neohypnus, see Newton et al. (2001). Against the possibility that the specimen belongs to a West Indian species, JHF checked the key to West Indian ‘ Xantholinus ’ provided by Blackwelder (1943); the specimen keyed out to X. oakleyi Blackwelder, but did not at all match the description of the diminutive (2.5-4.5 mm) adults of that species known from Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. Against the possibility that the specimen belongs to a Mexican species, the original descriptions of all the four species of Lissohypnus reported in Mexico by Navarrete-Heredia et al. (2002) were read and found not to match the specimen. Although we have seen only this one specimen, we think it is distinct from the single U.S. species known to belong to Lissohypnus, and it is not a West Indian species known to Blackwelder (1943), nor a Mexican species known to Navarrete-Heredia et al. (2002) so we here describe it as a new species. Description. Head piceous, pronotum castaneous, elytra, abdomen, maxillary palpi and legs paler to rufo-testaceous on apical 2/3 of elytra and first two visible segments of abdomen and 2 nd and 3 rd pairs of legs, antennae castaneous with antennomeres IV-X and base of XI infuscate. Head longer than wide (index 1.20), only slightly dilated posteriorly, posterior angles rounded; frontal groves moderately distinct and long, slightly curved medially in posterior half, ocular grooves absent; eyes small and almost flat, tempora much longer than length of eyes seen from above (index 2.2), punctation of head coarse and moderately dense laterally, punctures becoming sparser medially and gradually disappearing anteriorly; without impunctate median strip on posterior half of head; surface of head glossy, without microsculpture; gula short and narrow, sutures behind it contiguous. Antennae geniculate with first antennomere (scape) long and stout, widened toward apex, antennomeres II and III elongate, III slightly longer than II, outer antennomeres strongly transverse, apical antennomere about as long as preceding two combined, and acorn-shaped. Pronotum longer than wide (index 1.3), slightly narrowed posteriorly; dorsal rows each with 11-12 punctures; lateral rows each with 6 punctures; surface of pronotum without microsculpture. Elytra moderately long, at suture a little (index 0.80); at sides feebly (index 0.97) shorter than length of pronotum at midline; punctation rather coarse and moderately dense, irregular; surface without microsculpture. Macropterous. Abdomen with punctation fine and moderately dense, gradually becoming sparser medially; pubescence pale, moderately dense; base of each tergite narrowly covered with microsculpture of fine and dense meshes; rest of tergite with microsculpture of dense and extremely fine transverse waves. Tergite VIII (Fig. 2b) with no special modification. Genital segment of male (Fig. 2c) very similar to that of L. texanus as described by Smetana (1982) and thus probably a generic character as specified by him. Aedeagus (Fig. 2d) similar to that of L. texanus described by Smetana (1982) as a generic character, but differing in the following details: parameres long and narrow, curved laterally and curved distally dorsad; each paramere with a short and acutely pointed basal apophysis, curved distally dorsad; apical portion of median lobe blunt, but having an extension consisting of a split structure narrowed and curved dorsad; distal to the fovea is a sclerotized ridge in form of a letter E turned at 45 o (with short splines pointing basally); the internal sac with unsclerotized internal elongate spines. Slide-mounting of an aedeagus, perhaps with staining, might reveal the internal structures of the internal sac, but this was not attempted due to risk to the unique holotype (and at this stage in the description is not necessary because of the now obvious differences from the only known congener). Male. Length 7.5 mm, described above. Female. Yet unknown. Holotype. Male in UCFC with collection no. UCFC 0 085 911. Label data: USA, FL, Brevard Co. Malabar, Malabar Rd. 23 Sept - 15 Oct. 2000 P.J. Russell, Z. Prusak, S.M. Fullerton / Malabar scrub sand Fire Unit 16 xeric oak scrub Malaise trap / UCFC 0 085 911/. Distribution. Malabar, Brevard Co., Florida, USA. Etymology. Named in honor of Stuart M. Fullerton, the founder and benefactor of the University of Central Florida Insect Collection (UCFC), who was one of the named collectors of the type specimen. Stuart departed this life on 5 April 2014. Diagnostic note. The L. fullertoni adult differs from L. texanus in color, slenderer appearance, head less broadened basally (Fig. 1 vs. 2), and aedeagal structure. The parameral apophyses are short, and acutely pointed, differing greatly from the slender, longer apophyses of L. texanus; the parameres are distinctly longer than the median lobe, as contrasted with equal length in L. texanus. It agrees with Smetana’s generic diagnosis of Lissohypnus in that the distance between the ocular punctures (Fig. 2a) is no more than 2.5 times the distance from the inner margin of the eye (Fig. 1a, 2a), and in a similar complex structure of the aedeagus including a fovea in the distal part of the bulbus (Fig. 2d)., Published as part of Frank, J. H., Kelly, S. L. & Almquist, D. T., 2014, Notes on Diochus Erichson, Lissohypnus Casey, and Oxybleptes Smetana (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Florida, including a description of a new species of Lissohypnus, pp. 1-8 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (382) on pages 4-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5179513, {"references":["Newton, A. F., M. K. Thayer, J. S. Ashe, and D. S. Chandler. 2001. Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802. p. 272 - 318 In: R. H. Arnett Jr, and M. C. Thomas (eds). American beetles. Volume 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press; Boca Raton, FL. xv + 442 p.","Blackwelder, R. E. 1943. Monograph of the West Indian beetles of the family Staphylinidae. U. S. National Museum Bulletin 182: i - viii, 1 - 658.","Navarrete-Heredia, J. L., A. F. Newton, M. K. Thayer, J. S. Ashe, and D. S. Chandler. 2002. Guia ilustrada para los generos de Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) de Mexico. Universidad de Guadalajara; Guadalajara, Jalisco. xii + 401 p.","Smetana, A. 1982. Revision of the subfamily Xantholininae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 120: i - viii, 1 - 289."]}

Oxybleptes davisi (Notman) 1924: 72 (see Smetana 1982: 254 for redescription) USA, FL, Leon Co., Apalachicola Nat. For. Stand 231 - 10m 2 sand J. R. King Aug 2011 / Pine fltwd; Pitfall 30 o 21’ 34.76” N 84 o 29’ 19.81’ W, (UCFC 0 457 041); as above but Stand 245/13 - control J. R. King Aug 2011 / Pine fltwd; Pitfall 30 o 19’ 02.30” N 84 o 28’ 40.05 W (UCFC 0457 355, 0 457 357, 0 457 358, 0 457 359, 0 457 360, 0 457 361); as above but Stand 245/13 mow J. R. King Aug 2011 / Pine fltwd; Pitfall 30 o 19’ 02.30” N 84 o 28’ 40.05 W (UCFC 0 457 485, 0 457 492, 0 457 499, 0 457 500); as above but Stand 245/13 1m 2 sand J. R. King Aug 2011 / Pine fltwd; Pitfall 30 o 19’ 02.30” N 84 o 28’ 40.05 W (UCFC 0 457 229, 0 457 230, 0 457 231, 0 457 232, 0 457 233, 0 457 234, 0 457 235, 0 457 236); as above but Stand 245/ 13 - 100m 2 sand J. R. King Aug 2011 / Pine fltwd; Pitfall 30 o 19’ 02.30” N 84 o 28’ 40.05 W (UCFC 0 457 262, male dissected); as above but Stand 246W 1m 2 sand J. R. King Aug 2011 Pine fltwd; Pitfall 30 o 18’ 24.39” N 84 o 53.43 W (UCFC 0 456 961, 0 456 962, 0 456 963, 0 456 964, 0 456 965, 0 456 966, 0 456 967, 0 456 969 and 0 457 235) 8 exx. Leon Co. total = 28. USA, FL, Liberty Co., Apal Blffs & Rav Pres, Coll: Preserve Staff, VII-29-2008 / Mxd Hrdwd closed canopy, seepage slope ravine, N 30 o 29’ 42.66” W 84 o 58’ 42.46” 183 ft. Malaise trap/ (UCFC 0 403 480). Liberty Co. total = 1. USA, FL, Orange Co., Orlando, VI-21-1991, longleaf pine saw palmetto, Malaise trap, S.M. Fullerton (UCFC 0 173 709 male dissected, 0 173 908 male dissected), same but VIII-28-1991, longleaf pine - sand pine - turkey oak, (UCFC 0 173 616), same but longleaf pine - sand pine - turkey oak Malaise trap, VII-24-1997 (UCFC 0 173 616), Orange Co., UCF, 28 o 36’ 37” N 81 o 12’ 01” W longleaf pine flatwoods (burn), Malaise traps, M. Carey, S.L. Kelly, S.M. Fullerton V-23-2008 (UCFC 0 466 734), same but VII-20-2012, D.A. Woller, S.M. Fullerton, fluorescent yellow pan traps, oak - sand pine - rosemary scrub (UCFC 0 484 970); Walt Disney World 26 May - 02 June 1998, Z Prusak, S Fullerton, C-4 Stout site, S15,16 T24 S R27 E xeric oak flatwoods, Malaise trap (UCFC 0 173 649, 0 173 6500 and 173 658). Orange Co. total = 9. USA, FL, Wakulla Co., St. Mark’s NWR, 30.13087 oN, 34.30241 oW 4-11 August 2011. D. T. Almquist, FL Natural Areas Inventory survey (gopher tortoise burrow façade trap in sandhill habitat). 5 exx. Same data but 11-18 August 2011. 3 exx. [Details of the trap will be explained in a later paper by DTA]. The specimens will be deposited in FSCA. Wakulla Co. total = 8. The presence of O. davisi in the Florida Panhandle was already suspected (see Frank et al. 2005), but its known distribution was District of Columbia, New Jersey and New York (Smetana 1982). The bigger surprise was to find it also in Orange Co. in central Florida along with O. meridionalis. The new data show that adults of both species may be collected in pitfall traps and that O. meridionalis may be collected in Malaise traps. Adults of O. meridionalis have been collected in all months of the year except February and April, but nothing is known of the immature stages or diet. Smetana (1988) pointed to the smaller, less elongate bulbus of the aedeagus of O. meridionalis, the slightly smaller body size, and the narrower male tergite of the genital segment as differentiating characters from O. davisi. We dissected a male of O davisi from Leon Co., a male from Wakulla Co., and two from Orange Co. and found that the genitalia agree exactly with Smetana’s (1982) description. We add that we find the elytra of O. davisi to be relatively longer and the head, pronotum, and elytra to be relatively glossier. The original collector of O. davisi reported to Notman (1924) that considerable numbers of adults were found running on the tops of several gravestones at Staten Islands, NY on 7 August 1923, that they were running about in daylight, often in circles, and that more were found with the same behavior on 28 September. No mention was made of the kind of stone – whether it had a matte or glossy surface. The earliest collections of O. meridionalis (Frank et al. 2005) were all made in daylight, with the adults found drowning in water or soapy water in artificial containers in circumstances suggesting an attraction to light-colored or glossy surfaces. Later collections with abundant specimens were made by trapping, but in no instance by use of lights at night, supporting the idea of diurnal activity., Published as part of Frank, J. H., Kelly, S. L. & Almquist, D. T., 2014, Notes on Diochus Erichson, Lissohypnus Casey, and Oxybleptes Smetana (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Florida, including a description of a new species of Lissohypnus, pp. 1-8 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (382) on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5179513, {"references":["Smetana, A. 1982. Revision of the subfamily Xantholininae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 120: i - viii, 1 - 289.","Frank, J. H., J. L. Foltz, and D. T. Almquist. 2005. The female of Oxybleptes meridionalis (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae. Staphylininae) and range extension for Oxybleptes. Florida Entomologist 88: 199 - 200.","Smetana, A. 1988. Revision of the subfamily Xantholininae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Supplementum 1. Canadian Entomologist 120: 525 - 558.","Notman, H. 1924. A new xantholinid swarming on gravestones on Staten Island and a new Trogophloeus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 32: 71 - 72."]}