Baeocera barda, Lobl, 2015

Löbl, Ivan, 2015, On the Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Revue suisse de Zoologie 122 (1), pp. 75-120 : 79

Baeocera barda sp. nov.

Figs 9-13

Holotype: MHNG; ♂; Indonesia, Lombok Pusuk Pass 300 m 3.XI.1991, I. Löbl degr. forest leaf litter.

Paratypes: MHNG; 1 ♀; with the same data as the holotype. – MHNG; 1 ♂; Lombok Bangko-Bangko (SW Lombok), 50 m degr. monsoonal for. D. Agosti 19.3.1991. – SMNS; 1 ♂; Lombok Is. Senaro , N slope of Rinjani, 2-5.Feb 1994 Bolm lgt. 1100 m.

Etymology: The species epithet is a Latin adjective meaning slow.

Description: Length 1.45-1.58 mm, width 0.87- 1.05 mm. Colour and most external characters as in B. badia . Length/width ratio of antennomeres as follows: III 17/7: IV 22/7: V 30/7: VI 26/8: VII 33/12: VIII 23/9: IX 30/13: X 28/15: XI 34/19. Mesepimera about 2.5 times as long as wide and 1.5 time as long as interval to mesocoxae. Punctation on lateral parts of metaventrite coarser than in B. badia . Submesocoxal lines strongly arcuate, submesocoxal areas about as long as half of interval to metacoxae. Metanepisterna not narrowed posteriad, suture straight, with variably large punctures. Sternite 1 impunctate in middle, basal puncture row interrupted between coxae.

Male: Protarsomeres hardly widened. Aedeagus (Figs 9-12) 0.37-0.43 mm long, fairly sclerotized. Median lobe similar to that in B. badia , articular process almost indistinct. Parameres long, slightly widened to mid-length and slightly sinuate in dorsal view, bent in basal third and slightly widened in apical third in lateral view. Internal sac with almost evenly thick, curved and proximally tuberculate sclerite, basal membranous denticles well visible but distinct lobe absent.

Female: Ovipositor (Fig. 13) with long distal gonocoxite slightly narrowed apically, bearing two long apical and four short subapical setae, gonostyle present, with one long apical seta.

Distribution: Indonesia: Lombok.

Type locality: Lombok, Pusuk Pass 300 m.

Comments: This species is very similar to and obviously closely related with B. badia . It may be reliably distinguished by its aedeagal characters, i.e., by the shape of the parameres and sclerotized piece of the internal sac. It differs from B. badia also by the impunctate centre of the sternite 1 and shorter apical antennomeres.