Porus borneensis, Pace, 2014

Pace, R., 2014, Aleocharinae from Sabah (Borneo) collected by Guillaume de Rougemont (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1), pp. 727-794 : 764

Porus borneensis nov.sp. ( Figs 56 and 223-226 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l Holotype, Sabah, Danum Valley, B.R.L., f.i.t., 14-16.II.2007, G. de Rougemont leg. (CROU). Paratypes: 3 exx., same provenance as the holotype (CROU, MSNV).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 5-5.3 mm. Body shiny, brown, abdomen yellowish-red, antennae yellowish-brown with the two basal antennomeres and the base of third yellowish-red, legs yellowish-red. Second antennomere shorter than the first, third as long as the second, fourth to seventh longer than wide, eighth as long as wide, ninth and tenth transverse. Eyes as long as the postocular region in dorsal view. Reticulation of the head evident, that of the pronotum strong, that of the elytra very superficial, that of the abdomen evanescent. Puncturation of the head evident and moderately close, absent on the longitudinal median band, that of the pronotum evanescent, that of the abdomen scarcely visible. Granulation of the elytra close and superficial. Male first free abdominal tergite with two long parallel lateral appendices. Aedeagus: Figs 223-224 ; male sixth free tergite: Fig. 226.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: This new species differs from P. ochraceus WESTWOOD, 1839 from India, in the shape of the pronotum, which is as wide as long, whereas it is transverse in P. ochraceus , in the antennomeres four to six, which are longer than wide, whereas in P. ochraceus they are transverse.

E t y m o l o g y: The new species takes its name from Borneo.

Figures

Figs 46-57: Habitus. (46): Drusilla borneoclara nov.sp., scale bar 5.8 mm; (47): Drusilla rougemontiana nov.sp., scale bar 5.5 mm; (48): Drusilla danumensis nov.sp., scale bar 3.4 mm; (49): Drusilla borneoapicalis nov.sp., scale bar 4.6 mm; (50): Drusilla borneostricta nov.sp., scale bar 7.5 mm; (51): Drusilla sabahorum nov.sp., scale bar 5.3 mm; (52): Drusilla trina nov.sp., scale bar 8 mm; (53): Drusilla borneoruficollis nov.sp., scale bar 6.8 mm; (54): Zyras (Glossacantha) plenus nov.sp., scale bar 9 mm; (55): Porus laminarum nov.sp., scale bar 11.3 mm; (56): Porus borneensis nov.sp., scale bar 5.3 mm; (57): Wroughtonilla sabahensis nov.sp., scale bar 4.6 mm.

Figs 219-229: Aedeagus in lateral and ventral view, sixth free urotergum of male, abdomen, spermatheca. (219-222): Porus laminarum nov.sp.; (223-226): Porus borneensis nov.sp.; (227): Wroughtonilla sabahensis nov.sp.; (228): Mimacrotona borneensis nov.sp.; (229): Apimela perarmata nov.sp. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.