Aleocharinae from Sabah (Borneo) collected by Guillaume de Rougemont (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
Author
Pace, R.
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2014
2014-07-31
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5306753
0253-116X
5306753
6EB57FAF-A54D-4A33-AB58-C03E7294FA00
Aisthentusa flagellifera
nov.sp.
(
Figs 5
and
78
)
T y p e m a t e r i a l
Holotype
,
Sabah
,
Danum Valley
, B.R.L.
, f.i.t.,
14-16.II.2007
,
G. de Rougemont
leg. (
CROU
).
D e s c r i p t i o n: Length
1.06 mm
. Body shiny, yellow, posterior half of the elytra brown, antennae brown with the three basal antennomeres of pale yellow colour, legs yellow. Second antennomere as long as the first, third shorter than the second, fourth to tenth strongly transverse. Eyes longer than the postocular region in dorsal view. Head, pronotum and abdomen devoid of reticulation, that of the elytra polygonal irregular evident. First to fourth free abdominal tergites with squamous sculpture. Aedeagus:
Fig. 78.
C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: This new species is distinguished from
A. borneensis
PACE, 2002
from Borneo by the apex of the aedeagus, which is narrower, and by the long flagellum among the internal sclerotised pieces of the aedeagus, which is absent in
A. borneensis
.
E t y m o l o g y: The name of the new species means "flagellum bearer". The flagellum is among the internal sclerotised pieces of the aedeagus.