Revision of the genus Achmonia of Africa south of the Sahara (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
Author
Janák, Jiří
Author
Bordoni, Arnaldo
text
Zootaxa
2014
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257
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3872.3.3
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Achmonia carinata
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 3, 8, 12
,
20
,
32–34
,
38–41
)
Type
locality.
D. R.
Congo
, Libenge.
Type
material.
Holotype
♂:
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
: “
Congo Belge
, Libenge,
8.i.1948
, R. Cremer-M. Neuman // R. I. Sc. Nat. Belg. I. G. 16.655” (
MRAC
).
Paratype
♀: “Musée du
Congo
, Haut-Uelé: Moto - 1923, L. Burgeon” (
MRAC
).
Description.
Body length (
Fig. 3
)
10.5–11.5 mm
; length from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra:
5.5 mm
. Brown, elytra yellowish along suture. Head and pronotum with fine micro-punctation. Head with setiferous postocular punctures (
Figs. 8
,
20
). Labrum quadrilobate, with moderately prominent inner lobes (
Fig. 20
). Temples with deep groove extended from tooth in posterior angle to near the eye and with similar, deep but wider groove above it. Elytra (
Fig. 12
) longer than pronotum, posteriad, slightly dilated and wider than pronotum, with broadly rounded humeral angles; surface with fine and very sparse punctation, most punctures arranged in three series. Abdomen with transverse micro-striation and fine, not sparse punctation.
Male
. Tergite and sternite of male genital segment as in
Figs. 33, 34
. Aedeagus length (
Figs. 38, 39
)
1.3 mm
, with median lobe short and wide (
Fig. 41
), paramere slender (
Fig. 40
); internal sac more or less visible and narrow, covered by fine scales.
Female. Head similar to that of male (
Fig. 32
).
Ratios (HT, PT): HL/HW: 1.00, 1.02; TeL/EyL: 1.54, 1.54; PL/PW: 1.23, 1.22; EL/EW: 1.03, 1.02; PW/HW: 0.91, 0.97; EW/PW: 1.15, 1.14; EL/PL: 1.12, 1.17; A5L/A5W: 0.64, 0.84; A10L/A10W: 0.63, 0.61.
Differential diagnosis.
Achmonia carinata
sp. nov.
differs from other Afrotropical species of the genus by the temples with a deep groove extended from tooth in posterior angle to near the eye and by the shape of the aedeagus.
Etymology.
The specific epithet refers to the carina between two grooves on the temple.
Distribution.
The new species is recorded from two localities in D. R.
Congo
: Libenge and Moto (
Fig. 1
).
Achmonia carinata
sp. nov.
was collected in Libenge together with the externally very similar
Thyreocephalus collarti
(
Cameron
, 1932
)
.