Zyras (Zyras)

Assing, Volker, 2017, On Zyras sensu strictu in the East Palaearctic and Oriental regions, with a focus on the faunas of the Himalaya, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Sulawesi (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 67 (1), pp. 117-192 : 160

Zyras (Zyras) spec. nov. 5

Material examined: Borneo: 5 ♀♀, Indonesia, Kalimantan Tengah, Busang–Rekut confluence, 0°03'S, 113°59'E, flight interception trap, VIII.2001, leg. Brendell & Mendel ( BMNH, cAss) .

Comment: This probably undescribed species is characterized by rather large size, distinctive coloration (forebody uniformly brown; abdomen blackish with the posterior margins of segments III–VI broadly reddish; legs yellow; antennae blackish with the basal antennomeres reddish and the apical 3–4 antennomeres yellow), conspicuously coarse and dense punctation of the elytra, and a posteriorly distinctly concave female sternite VIII. In size, habitus, coloration, punctation, and other external characters, this species is similar to Z. granulipennis CAMERON, 1939 from Java, but distinguished by a more transverse pronotum with numerous long dark setae at the margins and by the punctation of the elytra (more regularly distributed, less dense near the scutellum). At present, it is unclear if these differences should be interpreted as inter- or intraspecific variation.

3.6 The Zyras sensu strictu fauna of Sulawesi ( Indonesia)

Species of Zyras sensu strictu were previously unknown from Sulawesi. The material from this island in the collections of the BMNH is composed of seven species, four of which are described below. Zyras gratellus is redescribed in section 3.4. The remaining two species remain undescribed for want of males. All seven species were collected in the same locality, Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park (0°34'N, 123°41'E) in Sulawesi Utara.