New species of Tychus from Greece and Turkey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)
Author
Sabella, Giorgio
Author
Brachat, Volker
Author
Kurbatov, Serguei A
text
Revue suisse de Zoologie
2012
2012-06-30
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http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/150026
journal article
10.5962/bhl.part.150026
0035-418X
6118252
Tychus grassator
Sabella, 2011
Figs 28, 31
MATERIAL EXAMINED:
PCVB
,
2♀♀
;
Turkey
,
Izmir Prov.
, environs of Kemalpasa, Nif
Daği,
972 m
,
38°24’19”N
27°23’32”E
;
24.04.2006
;
H. Meybohm
&
V
.
Brachat
.
DESCRIPTION: Length
1.45 mm
. Winged. Body uniformly reddish brow with antennae and legs yellowish and palpi yellow.
Head slightly longer (
0.270 mm
) than wide (
0.260 mm
), frontal rostrum
0.150 mm
wide and
0.060 mm
long. Eyes with 8 facets. Antennae (Fig. 28) 0.800-
0.820 mm
long, club
0.325 mm
long; scape distinctly longer than wide; antennomeres II-V distinctly longer than wide; V slightly longer than IV; VI as long as wide, VII longer than wide, VIII distinctly wider than long. Apical segment of maxillary palpi
0.145 mm
long and
0.060 mm
wide.
Pronotum as long as large (
0.325 mm
) with small lateral antebasal foveae in shallow impressions.
FIGS 26-28
Antennae of
Tychus
female. (26)
T. sodalicius
from Antakya (
Hatay
). (27)
T. spurius
from
Sinop
. (28)
T. grassator
from Kemalpasa (
Izmir
). Scale bar
0.1 mm
.
FIGS 29-30
Genital plates of
Tychus
. (29)
T. sodalicius
from Antakya (
Hatay
). (30)
T. spurius
from
Sinop
. Scale bar
0.1 mm
.
Elytra wider (
0.560 mm
) than long (
0.410 mm
) with humeri not very protruding. Discal fovea joined to discal stria, latter reaching elytral mid-length.
Abdomen with first tergite
0.175 mm
long, basal impression extending on more than 1/3 of tergal width.
Genital plate as in Fig. 31.