Syndicus

Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2014, Two new species and new records of Syndicus Motschulsky (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from SE Asia and Australia, Zootaxa 3873 (2), pp. 165-177 : 169

Syndicus (s. str.) puncticollis Jałoszyński

( Figs. 2 , 4 , 11–12 , 18–20 , 27 )

Syndicus (s. str.) puncticollis Jałoszyński, 2004: 58 , Figs. 16 D, 22C, 24A–B, 27E.

Material studied: MYANMAR: 2 ♂, "Carin Chebà", 900– 100 m, V–XII 1888, leg. L. Fea ( MSNG).

Description of male. Externally ( Fig. 2 ) differs from female (described by Jałoszyński (2004: 58)) in slightly expanded ventrally metafemoral clava bearing long and erect setae ( Fig. 4 ). BL 3.28–3.50 mm; HL 0.50–0.53 mm, HW 0.75–0.78 mm, AnL 2.25–2.38 mm; PL 1.00– 1.10 mm, PWb 0.50–0.60 mm, PWm 0.75–0.83 mm; EL 1.78–1.88 mm, EW 1.25–1.28 mm, EI 1.42–1.47.

Aedeagus ( Figs. 11–12 , 18–20 ) elongate; AeL 0.65 mm; in ventral view internal armature with slightly asymmetrical subapical part, with short central complex containing small darkly sclerotized and broadly separated halves, distal vesicle nearly as broad as central complex, proximal vesicle much narrower; parameres with extremely tiny setae along mesal margins ( Fig. 20 ).

Distribution ( Fig. 27 ). Previously known only from a single female collected in northern Thailand (Chiang Mai Province), hereby recorded for the first time from the Karen Hills in Central Myanmar.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 2. Habitus of males. Syndicus (s. str.) birmanicus sp. n. (1); Syndicus (s. str.) puncticollis Jałoszyński (2).

FIGURES 3 – 6. Left metafemoral clava of males in posterior view. Syndicus (s. str.) birmanicus sp. n. (3); Syndicus (s. str.) puncticollis Jałoszyński (4); Syndicus (s. str.) difficilis Jałoszyński (5); Syndicus (s. str.) saketianus Jałoszyński (6).

FIGURES 9 – 14. Aedeagus in ventral (9, 11, 13) and lateral (10, 12, 14) views. Syndicus (s. str.) birmanicus sp. n. (9 – 10); Syndicus (s. str.) puncticollis Jałoszyński (11 – 12); Syndicus (Semisyndicus) chiangmaianus sp. n. (13 – 14).

FIGURES 15 – 20. Aedeagus in ventral (15, 18) and lateral (16, 19) views and apical portion of paramere in ventral view (17, 20). Syndicus (s. str.) birmanicus sp. n. (15 – 17); Syndicus (s. str.) puncticollis Jałoszyński (18 – 20).

FIGURES 26 – 29. Distribution of Syndicus (s. str.) birmanicus sp. n. (26); Syndicus (s. str.) puncticollis Jałoszyński (27); Syndicus (s. str.) difficilis Jałoszyński (28); Syndicus (s. str.) saketianus Jałoszyński (29).