Microscydmus lynfieldi
{{Short description|Species of beetle}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2024}}
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| image = Microscydmus lynfieldi holotype.jpg
| image_caption = Holotype of Microscydmus lynfieldi from the New Zealand Arthropod Collection
| taxon = Microscydmus lynfieldi
| authority = Franz, 1977
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- Microscydmus omahutensis {{small|Franz, 1977}}
| range_map =Microscydmus lynfieldi - map.svg
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Microscydmus lynfieldi is a species of minute beetle belonging to the family Scydmaeninae.{{GBIF |title=Microscydmus lynfieldi Franz, 1977 |id=9223899 |access-date=24 September 2024}} First discovered in the Auckland suburb of Lynfield in 1975 and described in 1977, it is endemic to New Zealand. M. lynfieldi is one of the smallest known species of beetle.
Taxonomy
The species was described by Austrian entomologist Herbert Franz in 1977, based on holotypes collected from decaying māhoe wood by Guillermo Kuschel from the vicinity of the Wairaki Stream / Tropicana Drive in Lynfield, Auckland, New Zealand in 1975.{{cite Q|Q130344952}} The species was named after its type locality of Lynfield. In 1990, Microscydmus omahutensis, also found at Lynfield and described by Franz in 1977, was synonymised with M. lynfieldi by Kuschel.{{cite Q|Q120031137}}
Description
Distribution
The species is endemic to New Zealand.{{cite web|url=https://www.nzor.org.nz/names/c7ea54e6-9093-41d0-8d7c-d9ae64d07b09 |title= Microscydmus lynfieldi Franz, 1977 |website=New Zealand Organisms Register |access-date=24 September 2024}} By the 1990s, verified sightings of the species had only been made in Lynfield, Auckland, with an unconfirmed sighting in 2010 at Port Waikato.{{cite web|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microscydmus_lynfieldi.jpg |title=adult Microscydmus, probably M. lynfieldi (body length less than 1 mm) |first1=S.E. |last1=Thorpe |author-link1=Stephen E. Thorpe |website=Wikimedia Commons |date=7 February 2010 |access-date=24 September 2024}}
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Category:Insects described in 1977
Category:Endemic beetles of New Zealand