Thyreocephalus pilosus

Janák, Jiří & Bordoni, Arnaldo, 2015, Revision of the genus Thyreocephalus and description of Afrus gen. nov. of Africa south of the Sahara (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), Zootaxa 4038 (1), pp. 1-94 : 19

T. pilosus group

Very large species (14–23 mm), body black with at least partly yellowish abdomen ( Fig. 22 ). Head with interior ocular puncture situated close to inner border of eye ( Fig. 24 , 35 ), ocular groove between interior ocular puncture and inner border of eye very short and shallow ( Fig. 24 ), temples with two small contiguous setiferous postocular punctures ( Fig. 24 , 35 ) situated in small impression (should be observed carefully, as sometimes setae broken), labrum lobate ( Fig. 36 ).

Figures

FIGURES 22 – 23. 22, Thyreocephalus brunneiventris (Tottenham) — T. pilosus group; 23, T. alluaudi (Fauvel) — T. ater group. Scale 1 mm.

FIGURES 24 – 28. 24, Thyreocephalus brunneiventris (Tottenham); 25, 27, T. alluaudi (Fauvel); 26, T. interocularis (Eppelsheim); 28, T. ferox (Harold); 24, 25, head and anterior part of pronotum; 26, ventral side of pronotum (ap—antesternal plate, pr—prosternum, ip—intercoxal process, SL—superior line, IL—inferior line); 27, 28, metatibia (ac—apical ctenidium, sac—subapical ctenidium). Scale 0.5 mm.

FIGURES 35 – 39. Thyreocephalus africanus (Bernhauer); 35, head and pronotum (iop—interior ocular puncture; poppostocular punctures); 36, labrum; 37, male tergite 10; 38, male sternite 9; 39, aedeagus.