Tachyusa cephalotes Pace, 1986

Pa ṡnik, Grzegorz, 2006, A revision of the World species of the genus Tachyusa Erichson, 1837 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 1146, pp. 1-152 : 71-72

Tachyusa cephalotes Pace, 1986 ( Fig. 62)

Tachyusa (Caliusa) cephalotes Pace, 1986: 192 .

Type material. Holotype: ♀: Bali, Batukaru , 18.V.1984, G. Rougemont ( MSNV).

Redescription. Body. Length 2.6 mm, convex, parallel­sided, glossy; head pitchy brown, pronotum brown, elytra reddish brown, abdomen black with tergites 3–4 reddish brown, legs yellow, antennae brown with antennomeres 1–3 red.

Head transverse; convex, eyes large, strongly protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above longer than postocular region; surface of head lacking microsculpture; puncturation very fine, pinprick­like and dense. Antennae short, clearly increasing in width apically, antennomere 3 shorter than 2, antennomeres 4–5 elongate, antennomeres 6–10 quadrate, antennomere 11 nearly conical.

Pronotum quadrate, lateral sides clearly concavely narrowed to obtuse hind angles; before base with deep transverse impression; surface without microsculpture; puncturation relatively coarse, dense and weakly asperate; pubescence at midline directed posteriorly in apical half and anteriorly in basal half.

Elytra quadrate, at suture as long as pronotal length at midline; surface lacking microsculpture; puncturation fine, pinprick­like and relatively sparse; postero­lateral angles broadly rounded.

Abdomen dilated posteriorly, bases of tergites 3–5 each with deep transverse impression, impressions with 7–8 short longitudinal ridges, tergal puncturation very fine and scattered, punctures very small and scarcely visible, surface without microsculpture.

Male unknown.

Female. Spermatheca as in Fig. 62.

Remarks. See under T. approximans .

Distribution. Tachyusa cephalotes is known only from Bali.