Kurbatoviella antennata, Hlaváč, 2010

Hlaváč, Peter, 2010, Kurbatoviella antennata, a new peculiar genus and species of the Clavigeritae from Borneo (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (2), pp. 471-475 : 474

Kurbatoviella antennata sp. nov.

( Figs. 1–8 )

Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♀, ‘ MALAYSIA: E Malaysia, Sabah, rd Kota-Kinabalu – Tambunan , km 52, 1600 m, rotten wood, 4.07.2002, Kurbatov & Zimina’ ( ZMUM) . PARATYPES: 2 ♀♀, same data as holotype ( CPH, CSK) ; 2 ♀♀, same data as holotype but 1700 m, under stone with ants ( ZMUM, CSK) ; 1 J? (disarticulated specimen in Euparal, aedeagus lost): same data as holotype but 1700 m, litter ( CPH) .

Description. The whole body light yellowish-brown, regularly pubescent. Body length 1.23–1.25 mm, maximum width 0.58 mm. Head very long, 2.5–2.7 times longer than wide, with rostrum sparsely punctured and with dense pubescense. Antennomere III very long, 15 times as long as pedicel, densely pubescent. Head about 1.5 times as long as pronotum; pronotum with fine microstructure and sparse pubescence, about 1.5 times as wide as long. Sexual dimorphism. Not apparent.

Host ant. Unknown.

Distribution. Borneo (Sabah).

Figures

Fig. 1. Kurbatoviella antennata gen. et sp. nov., photo of habitus.

Figs. 2–8. Kurbatoviella antennata gen. et sp. nov. 2 – antenna; 3 – prosternum; 4 – meso- and metaventrite; 5 – right elytron; 6 – fore leg; 7 – midleg; 8 – hind leg.