New species and additional records of Cephalocousya and Drepasiagonusa from China and Russia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Oxypodini)
Author
Assing, Volker
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2018
2018-07-27
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10.5281/zenodo.3985285
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Drepasiagonusa procera
nov.sp.
(
Figs 6-9
,
37-39
)
T
y p e m a t e r i a l:
Holotype
♀
: "
CHINA
:
Yunnan
, Nujiang Lisu Pref.,
Gaoligong Shan, W
"
Cloud
pass",
24 km
NW Liuku
,
25°59'00''N
,
98°40'14''E
,
2907 m
, small waterfall, wet moss sifted,
3.IX.2009
, leg.
M. Schülke
[CH09-23] /
Holotypus
♀
Drepasiagonusa procera
sp.n.
, det.
V
. Assing 2018" (MNB).
E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet (Latin, adjective: slender) alludes to the distinctive habitus of this species.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length
4.2 mm
; length of forebody 2.0 mm. Habitus as in
Fig. 6
. Coloration: forebody reddish; abdomen reddish with most of tergite VI, the anterior two-thirds of tergite VII, and an antero-median spot on tergite III-V blackish; legs, antennae, and maxillary palpi reddish.
Head (
Figs 7
,
37
) approximately as long as broad; punctation shallow, rather large, and extremely dense (except on frons), with the interstices reduced to narrow ridges; microsculpture pronounced. Eyes moderately convex and small, little more than half as long as distance from posterior margin of eye to posterior constriction of head. Antenna (
Fig. 8
)
1.3 mm
long and very slender; antennomeres IV approximately twice as long as broad, V-X of gradually decreasing length and decreasingly oblong, X weakly oblong, and XI approximately as long as the combined length of IX and X. Mandibles (
Fig. 37
) each with a pronounced, long and acute molar tooth.
Pronotum (
Fig. 7
) weakly transverse, 1.08 times as broad as long and approximately as broad as head, broadest in the middle; lateral margins distinctly convex in the middle and sinuate near posterior angles (dorsal view); punctation and microsculpture similar to those of head, but punctures even shallower and less defined.
Elytra (
Fig. 7
) 0.85 times as long as pronotum; punctation extremely dense, moderately fine, and defined. Hind wings not examined. Metatarsomere I approximately as long as the combined length of metatarsomeres III and IV.
Abdomen (
Fig. 9
) as broad as elytra; tergites III-V with moderately deep anterior impressions, tergite VI without anterior impression; punctation fine and dense, only slightly sparser on tergite VII than on anterior tergites; interstices with distinct microreticulation; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe; posterior margin of tergite VIII weakly convex.
♂
: unknown.
♀
: posterior margin of sternite VIII obtusely produced in the middle (
Fig. 38
); spermatheca shaped as in
Fig. 39.
C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s:
Drepasiagonusa procera
is readily distinguished from all other species of the genus by its conspicuous external characters alone: relatively large body size; slender habitus; a reddish forebody; long and very slender antennae with oblong antennomeres IV-X; small eyes; short elytra.
D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d n a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The type locality is situated near Gongshan in the Gaoligong Shan, Northwest
Yunnan
. The
holotype
was sifted from wet moss near a small waterfall at an altitude of approximately
2900 m
.