Pseudoplandria fortis, Pace, 2014

Pace, R., 2014, Aleocharinae from Sabah (Borneo) collected by Guillaume de Rougemont (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1), pp. 727-794 : 766-767

Pseudoplandria fortis nov.sp. ( Figs 60 and 231-232 )

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).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 5.9 mm. Body shiny, reddish, head brown, antennae brown with the two basal antennomeres and the base of the third yellowish-red, legs yellowishred. Second antennomere shorter than the first, third longer than the second, fourth to tenth transverse. Eyes longer than the postocular region in dorsal view. Body devoid of reticulation. Puncturation of the fore-body evident and very superficial, on the pronotum denser anteriorly and on either side of the median line. Frons carinate. Disc of pronotum with four large punctures disposed in a square. Elytra of the male with a salient oblique carina extending half way to the posterior margin and an oblique less salient carina near the humeral angle. Male fifth free abdominal tergite with a salient posterior median carina progressively deeply furrowed posteriorly. Aedeagus: Figs 231-232.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: No known species of this genus has secondary sexual characters on the elytra and on the abdomen resembling those of the new species. The strongly sclerotised internal piece of the aedeagus is also unique to this species.

E t y m o l o g y: The new species is named "strong" after the strongly sclerotized internal piece of the aedeagus.

Figures

Figs 58-64: Habitus. (58): Mimacrotona borneensis nov.sp., scale bar 1.5 mm; (59): Apimela perarmata nov.sp., scale bar 2.1 mm; (60): Pseudoplandria fortis nov.sp., scale bar 5.9 mm; (61): Pseudoplandria confundibilis nov.sp., scale bar 2.8 mm; (62): Pseudoplandria collaris nov.sp., scale bar 3.3 mm; (63): Aleochara (Aleochara) sabahensis nov.sp., scale bar 9 mm; (64): Borneochara rougemonti nov.sp., scale bar 1.8 mm.

Figs 230-243: Spermatheca, aedeagus in lateral and ventral view, labium with labial palpus, maxilla with maxillary palpus, mentum. (230): Apimela perarmata nov.sp.; (231-232): Pseudoplandria fortis nov.sp.; (233-235): Pseudoplandria confundibilis nov.sp.; (236): Pseudoplandria collaris nov.sp.; (237-238): Aleochara (Aleochara) sabahensis nov.sp.; (239-243): Borneochara rougemonti nov.gen., nov.sp. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.