Klimaszewskia, a new genus of the tribe Tyrini from the Oriental region (Coleoptera Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
Author
Yin, Zi-Wei
Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200234, China.
Author
Zhang, Wen-Xuan
0000-0003-0707-3694
Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200234, China. & zhangwx @ protonmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0707 - 3694
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-03-16
4942
4
592
598
journal article
7576
10.11646/zootaxa.4942.4.7
33068f08-e0ae-4faf-98ff-4c0c27a72323
1175-5326
4612930
3D055D07-530B-438F-946E-7772969D48B0
Klimaszewskia
sp.
(
Figs 1B
,
2I
)
Material examined.
1 ♀
, ‘
NEPAL
(prov.
Bagmati
),
Phuchauki
nr.
Kathmandu
,
2300 m
, 1.0V.81,
I. Löbl’
(
MHNG
)
.
Description.
Male. Unknown.
Female (
Fig. 1B
). Body moderately elongate, length (combined length of head, pronotum, elytra and abdomen)
2.26 mm
; color uniformly red-brown, tarsi and palpomeres lighter; dorsum finely punctate.
Head lengthily and bluntly triangular, length from anterior margin of clypeus to head base
0.51 mm
, width across eyes
0.36 mm
; vertexal foveae at level of posterior margin of eyes; frons dilated apically, longitudinally and smoothly impressed between antennal tubercles; postocular margins rounded, with dense setae on each side; eyes small, hemispherical in lateral view, each composed of approximately 15 facets. Maxillary palpus (
Fig. 2H
) elongate, palpomere 4 with slightly sinuate lateral margin; length/width of palpomere 3 0.05/
0.15 mm
, palpomere 4 0.07/
0.28 mm
. Antennae elongate, length
2.31 mm
; antennomere 1 (scape) larger than 2 (pedicel), shorter than antennomeres 2 and 3 combined, antennomere 2 slightly broader than 3, antennomeres 3–8 of similar width, successively shorter, antennomere 9–11forming distinct club (
Fig. 2C
), antennomere 9 much larger than 8, elongate, antennomere 10 similar to antennomere
9 in
size, antennomere 11 slightly shorter than 9 and 10 combined, suboval, widest at middle.
FIGURE 2.
Diagnostic characters of
Klimaszewskia
species (A–G.
K
.
punctata
sp. nov.
H, I.
K
. sp.).
A.
Head and pronotum.
B, H.
Left maxillary palpus.
C.
Antennomeres 8–11.
D.
Meso- and metaventrite.
E–G.
Aedeagus, in lateral (E), and ventral (F, G) view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm in A, C, D; 0.1 mm in B, E–I.
Pronotum subglobose, approximately as long as wide, length along midline
0.46 mm
, maximum width
0.44 mm
, with slightly arcuate anterior and posterior margin, sides rounded at middle, then narrowing toward apex and subparallel in basal two-fifths.
Elytra subtriangular, much wider than long, length along suture
0.53 mm
, maximum width
0.86 mm
, shortened and strongly constricted at base, discal area with fine punctures, sides with long, dense hairs. Mesoventrite strongly transverse, with thin admesal ridges; mesoventral process with truncate apex. Metaventrite also transverse, with broad posterior intercoxal process, posterior margin of process broadly impressed at middle.
Legs elongate, simple. Lengths of pro-, meso- and metatarsomeres 1–3: 0.04, 0.16,
0.17 mm
; 0.04, 0.18,
0.16 mm
; 0.05, 0.21,
0.18 mm
.
Abdomen wider than long, widest at sides of tergite 1 (IV), length along midline
0.76 mm
, maximum width
0.94 mm
; tergite 1 (IV) 2.17 times as long as tergite 2 (V), lacking carinae.
Genital complex (
Fig. 2I
) symmetric, transverse,
0.21 mm
wide, moderately sclerotized.
Distribution.
Nepal
:
Bagmati
.
Comments.
This female has an identical foveal pattern as of
K
.
punctata
sp. nov.
, the elongate fourth maxillary palpomere is broadest at basal 1/3, the pronotum has a distinct antebasal sulcus, and the first visible tergite is longest. Collectively, these characters place this specimen in the newly defined
Klimaszewskia
. The single female apparently belongs to a different species according to the followings: 1) the body size is much larger than that of
K
.
punctata
sp. nov.
(2.26 vs.
1.54 mm
), 2) the maxillary palpomere 4 is slightly sinuate on the lateral margin, and 3) the elytral disc is finely punctate.