A taxonomic review of the Korean species of the subgenus Datomicra Mulsant & Rey of the genus Atheta Thomson, with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
Author
Lee, Seung-Gyu
Author
Ahn, Kee-Jeong
text
Zootaxa
2017
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508
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journal article
33024
10.11646/zootaxa.4268.4.3
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Atheta
(
Datomicra
)
pyongangsani
Paśnik, 2001
(
Fig. 1
F)
Atheta
(
Datomicra
)
pyongangsani
Paśnik, 2001
: 215
;
Smetana, 2004
: 379
;
Schülke & Smetana, 2015
: 528
.
Diagnosis.
Length 2.0–
2.2 mm
. Body (
Fig. 1
F) dark brown; elytra paler than other parts; legs yellowish brown.
Head
. Slightly transverse, approximately 1.1–1.2 times as wide as long, widest behind eyes, slightly narrower than pronotum; eyes large and prominent, about 1.3–1.4 times as long as temples; infraorbital carina complete. Antennae slightly longer than head and pronotum combined; antennomeres 1–3 elongate, 1 longest, 4–10 subquadrate to slightly transverse, 11 longer than wide, about as long as preceding two combined.
Thorax
. Pronotum approximately 1.3–1.4 times as wide as long, widest in apical third; pubescence directed anteriorly in midline; hypomera partially visible in lateral aspect. Elytra slightly transverse, slightly wider than pronotum; elytron approximately 1.6–1.7 times as long as wide, postero-lateral margin almost straight.
Abdomen
. Parallelsided, widest at middle; surface glossy and densely pubescent, with coarse punctures and transverse microsculpture; male tergite VIII with four macrosetae on each side of midline, posterior margin broadly rounded, slightly emarginate in median region; male sternite VIII with eight macrosetae on each side of midline, posterior margin convex, convergent apically; posterior margin of female tergite VIII truncate in median region; posterior margin of female sternite VIII broadly rounded, slightly emarginate in median region.
Aedeagus
. Apical process of median lobe narrowly elongate, slightly pointed apically in ventral aspect.
Spermatheca
.
Bursa
without umbilicus; duct short.
Type
material.
Holotype
,
♂
, labeled as follows: ‘
Korea
21.6.1974
Pnjongjang Exp. Inst.Zool.Cr.
;
HOLOTYPE
Atheta (Datomicra) pyongangsani
sp. n.
det.
G. Paśnik
2000’ [
North Korea
,
Pyeongannam Prov.
,
Pyeongyang-si
,
21 vi 1974
,
ISEA
]
.
Paratypes
, 2 exx., same data as holotype.
Distribution.
Korea
(North).
Remarks.
This species was described by
Paśnik (2001)
in North Korea and no specimen has been collected in South Korea.