Notes on the systematic placement of Eutheia siamensis Franz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)
Author
Jałoszyński, Paweł
text
Zootaxa
2015
4021
3
493
498
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4021.3.10
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1175-5326
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Cephennomicrus siamensis
(Franz)
(
Figs 1–6
)
Euthia siamensis
Franz, 1975
: 52
, fig. 1 (
Euthia
Agassiz, 1847
is an unjustified emendation of
Eutheia
Stephens, 1830
).
Type
material.
Holotype
:
THAILAND
(Nakhon Ratchasima Province):
♂, three original labels (
Fig. 3
): "Sakaerat Exp. Stat. /
Thailand
,lg.Franz" [white, printed], "
Euthia
/
siamensis
m. / det.H.Franz" [white, handwritten and printed], "
Typus
" [red, handwritten]; during the present study white printed label was added: "
CEPHENNOMICRUS
/
siamensis
(
Franz, 1975
)
/ det.
P. Jałoszyński, 2015
" (
NHMW
).
Diagnosis.
BL <
0.80 mm
; head with short cushion-like tempora and pair of elongate oblique impressions extending anteromesally from mesal margin of each eye; pronotum with lateral pair of pits and transverse antebasal impression deepened at each end; aedeagus pear-shaped, with nearly symmetrical internal armature composed of elongate sclerites and median tubular component; parameres broad and with apices reaching apex of median lobe.
Description.
BL
0.78 mm
. Body of male (
Figs 1–2
) elongate and convex, brown, legs and setae slightly lighter.
Head broadest at large, strongly convex and coarsely faceted eyes, HL
0.10 mm
, HW
0.16 mm
; vertex and frons confluent, weakly convex; frons between eyes with pair of elongate impressions extending anteromesally from mesal margin of each eye and not connecting at middle; eyes bean-shaped, area in posteromedian emargination of each eye bulging and in dorsal view visible as cushion-like protuberance. Punctures and setae on frons and vertex inconspicuous, fine. Antennae short, AnL
0.30 mm
; antennomeres I and II elongate, III–VIII each about as long as broad or slightly transverse; antennomeres IX–XI distinctly enlarged and forming club, antennomeres IX–X distinctly transverse, XI only 1.6× as long as broad, with rounded apex.
Pronotum (
Fig. 2
) semioval in dorsal view, broadest at base; PL
0.20 mm
, PW
0.25 mm
; pronotal base with shallow transverse impression deepened at each end and with distinct pair of small lateral pits. Punctures on pronotal disc fine and inconspicuous; setae short, sparse and recumbent.
Elytra oval, broadest near middle; EL
0.48 mm
, EW
0.33 mm
, EI 1.46; humeral calli distinct, subhumeral line rounded but distinct, basal elytral foveae rudimentary, barely discernible. Punctures on elytra similar to those on pronotum; setae short, dense, recumbent.
Legs moderately long and slender, all tibiae nearly straight.
Aedeagus (
Figs 4–6
) pear-shaped, AeL
0.15 mm
; median lobe in ventral view broadest in basal half and narrowing distally to form subtrapezoidal apex with nearly straight apical margin; internal armature nearly symmetrical, composed of elongate sclerites and median tubular component; parameres broad and short, in studied specimen setae are broken off, but
Franz (1975)
illustrated both parameres with two apical and one subapical seta.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution.
North-eastern
Thailand
.