A revision of the World species of the genus Tachyusa Erichson, 1837 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
Author
Pa ṡnik, Grzegorz
text
Zootaxa
2006
2006-03-10
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152
journal article
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Tachyusa javana
Cameron, 1940
(
Figs. 48–50
)
Tachyusa javana
Cameron, 1940: 105
Type material
.
Holotype
:
♀
:
East Java
,
Djember
,
Tachyusa javana
Cam.
Type
(
BMNH
).
Additional material
.
Borneo:
Sarawak
, 2nd
Division Skrang River
,
XI.1975
,
G. de Rougemont
, 2 exx (
BMNH
)
.
Indonesia
:
Irian Jaya
,
Nabire distr.
,
Wondiwoi Mts.
,
Yeretua
,
100 m
,
IX.1998
,
M. Balke
, 4 exx (
NMEG
)
; 2 exx (
ISEA
);
Sulawesi Utara
,
Danau Mooat
,
1200 m
, near
Kotamobagu
,
17.XII.1985
, 2 exx (
BMNH
)
;
Sulawesi Utara
,
DumogaBone National Park
, banks of
River Tumpah
, lowland forest,
200–300 m
,
XII.1985
, 1 ex (
BMNH
)
.
Philippines
:
Mindanao
,
Davao Prov.
,
25 km
W New
Bataan
,
1200 m
,
20–22.V.1996
,
Bolm
, 1 ex (
SMNS
)
.
Redescription
. Body. Length 2.9–3.3 mm, convex, parallelsided, glossy; head brown to pitchy brown, pronotum red, elytra brownish red with shoulders and posterior margin red, abdomen black with two basal tergites red, legs yellow, antennae brown with antennomeres 1–3 red.
Head circular in outline; flattened dorsally, moderately broadly and shallowly impressed medially; eyes large, moderately protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above longer than postocular region; surface of head with distinct isodiametric mesh microsculpture; puncturation fine and moderately dense. Antennae short, moderately increasing in width apically, antennomeres 2 and 3 subequal in length, antennomeres 4–10 longer than wide, antennomere 11 nearly conical.
FIGURES 48–50.
Tachyusa javana
Cameron
: 48—aedeagus in lateral view, 49—aedeagus in ventral view, 50—spermatheca.
Pronotum quadrate, lateral sides clearly concavely narrowed to obtuse hind angles; before base with small and shallow transverse impression; surface with isodiametric mesh microsculpture; puncturation fine, moderately dense and asperate; pubescence at midline directed posteriorly.
Elytra subquadrate, at suture as long as pronotal length at midline; surface lacking microsculpture; puncturation fine, dense and weakly asperate.
Abdomen dilated posteriorly, bases of tergites 3–5 each with deep transverse impression, impressions with 7–8 longitudinal ridges connected by the short transverse ridges in the shape of honeycomb, tergal puncturation very fine and scattered, punctures very small and scarcely visible, surface without microsculpture.
Male. Aedeagus as in
Figs. 48–49
.
Female. Spermatheca as in
Fig. 50
.
Remarks
.
Tachyusa javana
is very similar to
T. schawalleri
, from which it can be distinguished by the red pronotum, the antennomeres 2 and 3 subequal in length, the yellow legs and particularly by the shape of the genitalia.
Distribution
. Oriental species known from
Indonesia
,
Malaysia
and
Philippines
.