Four new species of Nazeris Fauvel in Guangxi, China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae)
Author
Li, Li-Zhen
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-08-29
4312
2
333
342
journal article
32268
10.11646/zootaxa.4312.2.8
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Nazeris alatus
Hu & Li
,
sp. n.
(
Figs 7
,
15–19
,
30
)
Type
material.
Holotype
:
CHINA
:
male: "
China
:
Guangxi
Prov.,
Lingui County
,
Huaping N. R.
,
Anjiangping
,
1780 m
,
17.VII.2011
,
Zhu Jian-Qing
leg. " (
SNUC
)
.
Paratypes
:
3 females
, same data as holotype except "
1700 m
,
17.VII.2011
,
Peng Zhong
leg."
.
Description.
Body length
5.6–6.1 mm
; forebody length
3.1–3.3 mm
.
Body (
Fig. 7
) dark brown; antennae and legs yellowish brown.
Head (
Fig. 15
) approximately as long as wide; punctation dense and coarse, non-umbilicate, interstices without microsculpture; postocular portion approximately twice as long as eye length.
Pronotum (
Fig. 15
) 1.14–1.19 times as long as wide, 0.93–0.96 times as long and 0.80–0.83 times as broad as head; punctation as dense and as coarse as that of head; midline with narrow impunctate elevation in posteriorly half; interstices without microsculpture.
Elytra (
Fig. 15
) 0.64–0.67 times as long as wide, 0.54–0.57 times as long and as broad as pronotum; punctation as dense and slightly coarser than that of pronotum; interstices without microsculpture.
Abdomen with punctation dense and rather coarse on tergites III–V, dense and less coarse on tergite VI, moderately dense and fine on tergites VII–VIII; interstices lacking microsculpture.
Male
. Sternite VII (
Fig. 16
) with posterior margin truncate at middle. Sternite VIII (
Fig. 17
) with wide posterior excision. Aedeagus (
Figs 18, 19
) well sclerotized; ventral process very short, with parallel sides, with distinctly incised apex in ventral view, and with pair of wing-shaped basal laminae ventrally; dorso-lateral apophyses slender, with acute apex, extending much beyond apex of ventral process.
Distribution and habitat data.
The species is known only from Huaping in northeast
Guangxi
(
Fig. 30
). The specimens were collected by sifting leaf litter at altitudes of
1700–1780 m
.
FIGURES 15–19.
Nazeris alatus
15–forebody; 16–male sternite VII; 17–male sternite VIII; 18–aedeagus, in ventral view; 19– aedeagus, in lateral view. Scale bars: 15: 1 mm, 16–19: 0.5 mm
Comparative notes.
The new species is distinguished from all the known species of
Nazeris
from
Guangxi
and adjacent regions by the following combination of characters: punctation of head non-umbilicate (
Fig. 15
); ventral process of the aedeagus very short (
Fig. 18
); dorso-lateral apophyses long and apically acute (
Fig. 18
).
Etymology.
The specific epithet (Latin, adjective: with wings) alludes to the wing-shaped basal laminae of ventral process of the aedeagus.