Four new species of Pomphopsilla Jałoszyński and a new record of Cephennodes glabella Castellini in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) Author Jałoszyński, Paweł text Zootaxa 2016 4098 3 593 600 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.3.11 c69eb458-40db-4e46-8c25-44455fb067bf 1175-5326 259902 4BAA4C86-DA9B-40A8-905C-58E60E805CB9 Pomphopsilla pseudosoror sp. n. ( Figs 4 , 11–14) Type material. Holotype : Democratic Republic of the Congo (Oriental Prov.): ♂, two labels: " DR CONGO , Oriental Prov. / Ituri region, Mongbwalu, AGK camp, / house backyard / N01º56'32.81'' , E30º02' 25.62 / 21- 28.ii.2015 / yellow pan, leg. A. GUMOVSKY" [white, printed], " POMPHOPSILLA / pseudosoror m. / P. Jałoszyński, '16 / HOLOTYPUS' [red, printed] ( SIZK ). Paratypes : 2 ♂♂, two labels: " DR CONGO , Oriental Prov. / Ituri region, Mongbwalu, AGJ camp, / abandoned shamba, bananas, avocado, / sweet potato / N01º56'32.81'' , E30º02'25.62'' / 20-27.iii.2015 / yellow pan, leg. A. GUMOVSKY" [white, printed]; " POMPHOPSILLA / pseudosoror m. / P. Jałoszyński, '16 / HOLOTYPUS' [yellow, printed] ( SIZK , cPJ). Diagnosis. Aedeagus slender, with circular diaphragm; dorsal apical projection in ventral view concealed under conspicuous median apical plate, which is elongate, darkly pigmented and inversely subtriangular; apex of ventral aedeagal wall rounded; endophallus lacking needle-like sclerites, median tubular structure in median region with bell-shaped and unevenly sclerotized central complex. Description. This species ( Fig. 4 ) is externally nearly identical to P. pygmaea , only differences and measurements are given here. BL 0.75–0.80 mm . HL 0.09–0.10 mm , HW 0.18–0.19 mm , AnL 0.35–0.38 mm , antennomere III subquadrate, IV–IX each elongate. PL 0.23–0.24 mm , PW 0.29–0.30 mm , inner pair of pronotal pits connected by indistinct transverse groove; EL 0.43–0.48 mm , EW 0.35–0.38 mm , EI 1.13–1.29. Aedeagus (Figs 11–14) relatively slender, pear-shaped, AeL 0.20 mm ; median lobe in ventral view with circular diaphragm in sub-basal region; apex of ventral wall rounded, apex of dorsal wall in ventral view hidden behind large, inversely subtriangular median plate; endophallus with median tubular structure in median region flanked by irregularly sclerotized components together forming a bell-shaped central complex; parameres slender, their apices not reaching apex of dorsal aedeagal wall, each with one long and one short apical seta. Female. Unknown. Distribution. North-eastern part of DR Congo . Etymology. The specific epithet pseudosoror refers to the similarity between this species and previously known P. s o ror . Remarks. Pomphopsilla pseudosoror has the aedeagus very similar to that of P. s o ror , known to occur in Kenya . However, the apical portion of the dorsal aedeagal wall in P. s oro r is much longer in relation to the median plate, and apices of parameres slightly exceed the distal margin of the median plate (in P. p s e u do ro ro r apices of parameres only slightly exceed the base of median plate).