Ischnopoderona eastopi ( Tottenham, 1957 ) Tottenham, 1957

Paśnik, Grzegorz, 2007, Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the African genus Ischnopoderona (Scheerpeltz, 1974) new status (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 1412, pp. 1-54 : 25-26

Ischnopoderona eastopi ( Tottenham, 1957) , comb. n.

( Figs. 34–36 , Map 3)

Amanota eastopi Tottenham, 1957: 124 .

Type material. Holotype: ɗ: Kenya, Karura Forest, 30.VI.1954, V. F. Eastop ( BMNH). Paratype: Ψ: same data as holotype ( MRAC).

Additional material. Ethiopia: Kaffa, 65 km SW of Jimma Belleta Forest, 4800 ft., under leaves of Ficus by stream, VII.1971, 1 ex ( BMNH), 1 ex ( ISEA).

Redescription. Body. Length 2.7–2.9 mm, convex, parallel­sided, glossy; body colour brown; elytra and tergites III–IV brownish­red, antennae brown with antennomeres 1–2 red and 11 yellow, legs brown.

Head circular in outline, convex; eyes relatively large, weakly protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above subequal to that of postocular region; surface of head without microsculpture; puncturation minute, pinprick­like and sparse. Antennae very long, extending to 3/4 of elytra, slightly increasing in width apically, antennomeres 2 and 3 subequal in length, antennomeres 4–10 longer than wide, decreasing in length, antennomere 11 nearly coniform.

Pronotum longer than wide, convex, lateral sides sinuately narrowed to obtuse hind angles; before base with small and shallow transverse impression; surface without microsculpture; puncturation in basal 3/4 fine and dense, in anterior 1/4 similar in coarseness but much sparser; pubescence at midline directed posteriorly in apical 1/4 and anteriorly in basal 3/4.

Elytra subquadrate, at suture slightly shorter than pronotal length at midline; surface without microsculpture; puncturation minute, pinprick­like and sparse.

Abdomen widened posteriorly, bases of tergites III–V each with deep transverse impression, first impression coarsely punctate, second and third impressions smooth, impunctate; tergal puncturation very fine and relatively dense; surface without microsculpture.

Male. Aedeagus as in Figs. 34–35 .

Female. Spermatheca as in Fig. 36 .

Remarks. Ischnopoderona eastopi is very similar to I. uhligi , from which it can be distinguished by the pronotum longer than wide (pronotum quadrate in I. uhligi ), the tergites III and IV brownish­red (tergites III and IV red in I. uhligi ) and by the sparse elytral puncturation (dense in I. uhligi ).

Distribution. Ethiopia, Kenya (Map 3).

Figures

FIGURES 34 – 36. Ischnopoderona eastopi (Tottenham): 34 — aedeagus in lateral view, 35 — aedeagus in ventral view, 36 — spermatheca