A new genus of Oxypodina from Kyrgyzstan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Oxypodini) Author Assing, Volker text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2019 2019-12-20 51 2 1357 1362 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.3745466 ea662faf-3f55-445b-a5b0-7a337060c668 0253-116X 3745466 Typhlotectusa frischi nov.sp. ( Figs 1-10 ) T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype ♂ : " Kyrgyzstan : Issyk-Kul , Kyzyl-Tuu - Kyzyl-Suu : S Barskoon, Barskaun Pass , 3770 m , N41°53'30'' E077°41'59'' , 24.06.2011 , leg. J. Frisch / Holotypus ♂ Typhlotectusa frischi sp. n. , det. V. Assing 2019" (cAss). E t y m o l o g y: This remarkable species is dedicated to Johannes Frisch, who collected the holotype . D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 2.5 mm ; length of forebody 1.05 mm . Habitus as in Fig. 1 . Coloration: body yellowish-red with dark-yellow legs and antennae. Head ( Figs 2-3 ) weakly oblong; punctation very fine and rather dense, barely visible in the pronounced microreticulation. Eyes completely reduced, not even rudiments visible ( Fig. 3 ). Antenna 0.6 mm long; antennomere III of conical shape and weakly oblong; antennomeres IV-X strongly transverse, more than twice as broad as long, and of gradually increasing width, XI slightly longer than the combined length of IX and X. Pronotum ( Fig. 2 ) very weakly transverse, only 1.05 times as brad as long and 1.05 times as broad as head, with weakly marked posterior angles; punctation dense and extremely fine, nearly invisible in the pronounced microreticulation even at high magnification. Elytra ( Fig. 2 ) short and slender, as broad as, and 0.7 times as long as pronotum; punctation dense and fine, but more distinct than that of head and pronotum; interstices with shallow microsculpture and glossy. Hind wings completely reduced. Abdomen 1.1 times as broad as elytra at segment VI; punctation fine and moderately dense; interstices with microsculpture; posterior margin of tergite VII without palisade fringe; posterior margin of tergite VIII truncate ( Fig. 5 ). Figs 1-6 : Typhlotectusa frischi : habitus ( 1 ); forebody in dorsal view ( 2 ); forebody in lateral view ( 3 ); labium ( 4 ); male tergite VIII ( 5 ); male sternite VIII ( 6 ). Scale bars: 1: 1.0 mm; 2-3: 0.5 mm; 5- 6: 0.2 mm; 4: 0.1 mm. Figs 7-10 : Typhlotectusa frischi : maxilla ( 7 ); median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view ( 8-9 ); paramere ( 10 ). Scale bars: 0.1 mm. ♂: sternite VIII ( Fig. 6 ) approximately as long as broad, with weakly convex posterior margin; median lobe of aedeagus 0.27 mm long and shaped as in Figs 8-9 ; paramere ( Fig. 10 ) 0.36 mm long. ♀ : unknown. 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 in East Kyrgyzstan to the south of Issyk-Kul lake. The holotype was collected at an altitude of nearly 3800 m .