Acrotrichis subafricana sp. n.

(Figs. 30A –L)

Habitus Fig. 30A. Length 1.10 mm. Colour blackish brown, antennae and legs pale brown. Antennomeres 3–11 0.45 mm long Fig. 30 C. Mentum setae arranged 5,3,5, submentum with +/- 18 setae Fig. 30 L. Width across eyes 0.40 mm. Pronotum 0.73 mm wide, 0.36 mm long, sides strongly curved, without a sinuation at the hind angle Fig. 30 B. Elytra 0.57 mm long, 0.69 mm wide. Posterior margin of mesoventral collar with a shallow median excision Fig. 30 F, sloping shoulders Fig. 30 J. Metaventral posterior margin and metacoxal plates Fig. 30 H. Abdominal ventrites with a wavy posterior margin Fig. 30 K.

Male: ventrite six Fig. 30 G; ventrite seven Fig. 30 I; aedeagus Fig. 30 E.

Female: spermatheca Fig. 30 D.

Etymology. Johnson ms name.

Remarks. Closely related to africana but larger and broader with longer antennae and sharper pronotal hind angles.

Type data. Holotype: ♂, Perinet, 12.x.1970, ex forest litter, leg. P.M.Hammond (BMNH). Paratypes: 2♂ 1#, same data as holotype; 1♀, Ambohitantely Spec. Res., ABT/01/2011, sifting forest litter under Pandanus very dry material, Winkler app. extraction, S.18˚10’51.7” E.47˚17’21.6”, 1593 m, 19.iv.2011, P. Banar & R. Raveloson (BMNH); 2 examples, Ambohitantely Spec. Res., ABT/ Sep.2011/09, sifting forest litter under Pandanus close to river, Winkler app. extraction, S.18˚10’53.5” E.47˚17’22.3”, 1490 m, 2.ix.2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); 5 examples, Ranomafana N.P., sifting, S.21˚14’51” E.47˚24’13”, 1079 m, 16–18.xi.2010, P. Banar (BMNH).