New data on the Afrotropical Xantholinini. 1. New species from South Africa in the Janak collection (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 285 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae
Author
Bordoni, Arnaldo
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2017
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5410536
0253-116X
5410536
Notolinopsis lemniscatus
nov.sp.
(
Figs 16-18
)
E x a m i n e d m a t e r i a l:
Holotype
3:
RCA
: E
Cape
,
Hogsback
,
970-1300 m
,
32.35S
, 26.56-57E, Janak
5-7.XII.2006
(cJ);
paratype
: same data, 13 (cB).
D e s c r i p t i o n: Length of body
9.5 mm
; from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra:
5 mm
. Body shiny, without micro-sculpture, apart the abdomen, reddish brown; antennae and legs brown. Head sub-ovoid, very narrow forward, with rounded sides and largely rounded posterior angles. Eyes small and almost flat. Surface of head with sparse, deep punctation, especially on the sides, finer and almost absent on the extensive central portion. Pronotum massive, dilated forward, very longer and wider than head, with oblique anterior margins, largely rounded anterior angles and sinuate sides. Surface with dorsal series of 6-7 deep, spaced punctures and sparse, fine lateral punctation. Elytra sub-rectangular, dilated posteriad, shorter and narrower than pronotum, with rounded humeral angles. Surface with numerous series of deep, dense punctures. Abdomen with fine, dense, transverse micro-striation and fine punctation on the sides.
Tergite and sternite of the male genital segment as in
Figs 16-17
. Aedeagus (
Fig. 18
)
2 mm
, sub-ovoid, with short, asymmetric parameres; median lobule short and narrow; inner sac tape-like, narrow and very long, to concentric turns in the proximal portion, covered with different spinulae and scales on the different portions.
E t y m o l o g y The specific epithet is the Latin
lemnicatus- a- um
(ribbon-like), in relation to the shape of inner sac of the aedeagus.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: The species is known only from the
type
locality.
R e m a r k s: The aedeagus of this species is related to that of
N. oosthuizeni
BORDONI, 2016
from
Cape Province
, from which the new species differs for size, color, punctation and male genitalia.