3463 Author Bolz, Helmut Author Wagner, Thomas text Zootaxa 2012 2012-09-07 3463 1 112 journal article 1175­5334 0E5CD185-F473-49C3-93EF-303C6BB83DE6 Neobarombiella susannae sp. n. ( Figs 36 , 181–184 ) Etymology. Named after Susanne Schöler, Helmut Bolz’s girl-friend. Total length. 3.85–4.40 mm (mean: 4.11 mm ) (n=12). Head. Frons and vertex brownish-yellow, labrum, labial and maxillary palpi brown. Antenna very long, slender, and brownish-yellow, becoming darker towards apex ( Fig. 181 ), third antennomere very elongate, length of second to third antennomere 0.50–0.55 (mean: 0.51), length of third to fourth antennomere 0.67–0.80 (mean: 0.74) ( Fig. 183 ). Eyes large ( Fig. 181 ), width of eye to interocular distance 0.46–0.52 (mean: 0.48). Thorax. Pronotum yellowish-brown; small and strongly trapezoidal; pronotal width 1.30–1.46 mm (mean: 1.40 mm ), pronotal length 0.56–0.66 mm (mean: 0.62 mm ), and pronotal length to width 0.40–0.46 (mean: 0.44). Elytron yellow with broad black sutural and more slender outer elytral margins in about 80% of specimens studied, rest with very narrow and sharply delimited sutural and elytral margins; punctuation very coarse and dark ( Fig. 181 ); elytral length 2.95–3.35 mm (mean: 3.20 mm ), elytral width 2.40–2.60 mm (mean: 2.53 mm ), and broad with maximal width of both elytra to length of elytron 0.76–0.81 (mean: 0.79). Meso- and metathorax brown or brownish-black; legs entirely yellow; length of basi-metatarsus to metatibia 0.46–0.47 (mean: 0.47). Abdomen. Entirely yellowish-brown or brown. Male genitalia. Median lobe long, slender, straight and parallel-sided in ventral view, apical section rounded with small V-shaped incision between two rows of small sclerotized teeth ( Fig. 182a ); lacking prominent sclerotized structures in lateral view ( Fig 182c ); endophallic brush protruding slightly from median lobe, lacking distinct spiculae ( Fig 182 ). Diagnosis. Neobarombiella susannae sp. n. is characterised by its coarsely punctuated yellow elytron with black elytral and sutural margins; short second antennomere, but the rest very enlongate; and its large, protruding eyes. Most similar in elytral colouring is N. nigrosuturalis sp. n. , but this species has much shorter and thicker antennomeres, length of second to third antennomere 0.86–1.00 ( N. susannae sp. n. in 0.50–0.55) ( Figs 175 , 183 ); and more slender elytra, maximal width of both elytra to length of elytron 0.64–0.71 (( 0.76–0.81 in N. susannae sp. n. ), ( Figs 173 , 181 ). Neobarombiella fassbenderi sp. n. has the same broad elytron as N. susannae sp. n. , but they are brown instead of yellow, with narrow lateral and sutural margins, and much smaller eyes, width of eye to interocular distance N. fassbenderi sp. n. 0.64-0.75 ( 0.46–0.52 in N. susannae sp. n. ),( Figs 145 , 181 ). Distribution. Recorded from the Ivory Coast and the Guineo-Congolian forest region, including Sierra Leone , Equatorial Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Fig. 36 ). Type material. Holotype , male: “Musée du Congo, Mayumbe, 1917, R . Mayné / Holotype , Neobarombiella susannae , Bolz & Wagner 2010 / AfriGa, specimen ID:, 1838, specimen data, documented, 10.III.2011 ” ( MRAC ; Fig. 184 ). Type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo , Mayumbe , 4°30'S / 12°30'E .— Paratypes : Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1 ex. , Mongende , 3°18'N / 22°21'E , IV.1921 , Dr. H Schouteden ( MRAC ) ; 9 ex. , Thysville , 5°15'S / 14°52'E , XI.1952 , P. Basilewsky ( MRAC ).— Equatorial Guinea . 10 ex. , Nkolentangan , 2°00'N / 10°00'W , XI.1907 – V .1908 , G. Tessmann ( MNHU ).— Ivory Coast . 3 ex. , Adiapo-Doumé , 5°21'N / 4°01'W , II.– III .1998 , Kassebeer & Hilger ( ZFMK ).— Sierra Leone . 1 ex. , Tabuna , 9°31'N / 12°25'W , V .1983 (CMe) .