Ecomorypora pseudogranulata, Paśnik, 2007

Paśnik, G., 2007, Review of the New Zealand genus Ecomorypora CAMERON (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with description of three new species, Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2), pp. 1101-1110 : 1103-1104

Ecomorypora pseudogranulata nov.sp. ( Figs 7-11 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype :: New Zealand, MK: Hooker Valley , 3-5 km N Hermitage, 750- 830 m, 22.I.1984, P.M. Hammond ( BMNH) . Paratypes: 2: same data as holotype ; 2 and: New Zealand, SL: Blue Mts. , Black Gully, 30.I.1984, P.M. Hammond ( BMNH) ;: New Zealand, WD: Lake Kaniere , 7.II.1984, P.M. Hammond ( BMNH) ; 2: New Zealand, TK: Egmont National Park , Kapuni Valley, 1030-1250 m, 6.XII.1983, P.M. Hammond ( BMNH) .

D e s c r i p t i o n: Body. Length 5.0- 5.5 mm, convex, parallel-sided, glossy ( Fig. 7 ); body colour black, elytra dark brown, antennae and legs brown, tarsi red.

Head circular in outline, convex, glossy, narrower than pronotum, widest across eyes; eyes relatively small, protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above shorter than postocular region; surface of head without microsculpture; punctuation fine and very dense; pubescence short and dense, directed inward. Antennae long, very weakly increase in width apically, antennomere 3 longer than 2, antennomeres 4-10 longer than wide, decreasing in length.

Pronotum quadrate, moderately convex, glossy, widest in apical third, lateral sides gradually narrowed in straight line to rounded hind angles; before base with transverse impression, surface lacking microsculpture; punctuation moderately fine and very dense, interstices between punctures smaller than their diameter; pubescence at midline directed anteriorly in apical half and posteriorly in basal half.

Elytra elongate, slightly wider than pronotum, at suture longer than pronotal length at midline; surface without microsculpture; punctuation relatively fine and dense, interstices between punctures smaller than their diameter, pubescence short and dense.

Abdomen parallel-sided, bases of tergites III-VI each with deep transverse impression, impressions punctuate, tergal punctuation fine and dense; surface of tergites with fine transversely stretched isodiametric mesh microsculpture; surface of tergite VII covered by moderately large granules; tergite X as in Fig. 11 .

Male. Aedeagus as in Figs 8-9 .

Female. Spermatheca as in Fig. 10.

R e m a r k s. See under E. granulata and E. densepunctata .

Figures

Figs 7-11: Ecomorypora pseudogranulata nov.sp.: (7) habitus, (8) aedeagus in lateral view, (9) aedeagus in ventral view, (10) spermatheca, (11) tergite X.