Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) kashmirensis Bernhauer, 1923

Enuschenko, Ilya V. & Shavrin, Alexey V., 2021, On some species of Gyrophaenina Kraatz 1856 of Sri Lanka and India (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Homalotini), Zootaxa 5032 (3), pp. 331-356 : 342-343

Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) kashmirensis Bernhauer, 1923

( Figs 42–49 )

Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) kashmirensis Bernhauer, 1923: 127 ; Cameron 1939: 105

Type material examined: Lectotype (here designated) of Gyrophaena kashmirensis Bernhauer 1923 , ♂ [dissect- ed; specimen without left antenna, right antennomeres 3–11 and left middle leg; labels as in Fig. 49 ]: ‘ Uri Kashmir’, ‘ Gyrophaena kashmirensis Bernh. Typus’, ‘Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collection’, ‘( FMNH barcode in left side of label) FMNHINS 4031796 FIELD MUSEUM | Pinned’, ‘ LECTOTYPE Gyrophaena kashmirensis Bernhauer, 1923 ’, ‘ Gyrophaena kashmirensis Bernhauer, 1923 I.V. Enushchenko det. 2020’ ( FMNH).

Paralectotype: 1 ♀ [dissected; specimen without right antenna and left antennomeres 3–11]: ‘ Uri | Kashmir’ <printed>, ‘ kashmirensis | Brh. Cotypus’ <handwritten>, ‘Chicago NHMus | M. Bernhauer | Collection’ <printed>, ‘( FMNH barcode in left side of label) FMNHINS | 4031797 | FIELD MUSEUM | Pinned’ <printed> ( FMNH) .

Redescription. Body length 2.35–2.76 mm. Habitus as in Figs 42–43 . Head reddish brown; pronotum yellowreddish, with paler basal margin; elytra yellow-brown, with somewhat darker scutellar and brown latero-apical portions; abdomen yellow-brown, with brown sternites IV–VI; mouthparts, antennomeres and legs yellow. Forebody shiny, without microsculpture; abdomen with distinct isodiametric reticulation. Head 1.2–1.3 times as wide as long, with diagonal row of five moderately large punctures, extending from median length of eye to basal third of head; middle portion impunctate. Basal antennomere long, slightly more than twice as long as wide, antennomere 2 significantly shorter and slightly narrower than previous antennomere, about twice as long as wide. Pronotum 1.7 times as wide as long and 1.3 times as wide as head, with two longitudinal rows of fine five punctures in middle portion, punctures located approximately at equal distances from each other; each lateral portions of pronotum with two small setose punctures in middle. Elytra 1.5 times as wide as long and 1.2–1.3 times as wide as pronotum, surface covered with moderately dense and deep punctation, markedly finer in scutellar area. Abdomen about as wide as elytra.

Male ( Fig. 42 ). Median lobe wide, complicated in middle part of dorsal plate consisting of three projections, two of them moderately long, each slightly curved apically: one moderately wide projection, with rounded apex, and two other short and narrow; ventral projection short, with truncated apex ( Fig. 44 ). Abdominal tergite VIII with four short teeth: two relatively wide and elongate lateral teeth, slightly curved apically, and two short and narrow medioapical teeth; apical margin between each medioapical and lateral tooth concave ( Fig. 45 ). Apical margin of abdominal sternite VIII rounded ( Fig. 46 ).

Female ( Fig. 43 ). Apical margin of abdominal tergite VIII truncated ( Fig. 47 ). Apical margin of abdominal sternite VIII rounded ( Fig. 48 ).

Comparative notes. Based on proportions of the shiny body and arrangement of pronotal and elytral punctures, G. kashmirensis is similar to G. lacca Cameron 1939 (see below), from which it can be distinguished by the darker coloration and different shapes of apical margin of male abdominal tergite VIII and the aedeagus.

Distribution. India (Kashmir).

Remarks. Based on the original description, G. kashmirensis was described from an unspecified number of syntypes from “Kashmir, Uri …”. One syntype, the male from FMNH was designated here as the lectotype in order to fix the identity of the name.

Figures

FIGURES 42–49. Gyrophaena kashmirensis: 42 (lectotype), 43 (paralectotype)–habitus, 44– aedeagus, lateral view, 45–male abdominal tergite VIII, dorsal view, 46–male abdominal sternite VIII, ventral view, 47–female abdominal tergite VIII, dorsal view, 48–female abdominal sternite VIII, ventral view 49–labels of the lectotype, Scale bars: 1.0 mm (Figs 42–43), 0.10 mm (Figs 44–48).