A new species and new records of Malagasy Megalopinus Eichelbaum (Coleoptera Staphylinidae, Megalopsidiinae), with notes on the sperm pump in rove beetles
Author
Jałoszyński, Paweł
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-05-04
4768
3
425
434
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4768.3.9
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Megalopinus lemur
Puthz
(
Figs 7–12
)
Megalopinus lemur
Puthz, 1974: 331
.
Material studied: CE
Madagascar
:
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
,
Andasibe N. P.
,
Aventure
trail,
-18.9356
/
48.4154
, ~
1000 m
,
05.04.2019
, rainforest, from vegetation, leg.
M. Wanat
(
MNHW
)
.
Aedeagus (
Figs 10−12
) relatively slender; AeL
0.73 mm
; median lobe drop-shaped, broadest near basal third and strongly, almost evenly narrowing toward rounded and slightly asymmetrical apex, endophallus in ventral view (
Fig. 12
) with two symmetrical pairs of darkly sclerotized, overlapping structures; proximal pair strongly divergent toward base of aedeagus and composed of subtriangular sclerites, distal pair divergent toward apex of aedeagus, distally each of its sclerites bifurcate; parameres slender, each with 5–6 apical and subapical setae.
Remarks.
This species was previously known from a single female; the newly found male does not differ from female in external structures and is externally indistinguishable from the
holotype
(seen as a high-resolution photograph with a scale bar). The
holotype
was collected in Fampanambo, near the northern tip of the island; the new finding extends the distribution of this species over
400 km
SW, to the central-eastern region of
Madagascar
.