Apimela perarmata, Pace, 2014

Pace, R., 2014, Aleocharinae from Sabah (Borneo) collected by Guillaume de Rougemont (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1), pp. 727-794 : 765-766

Apimela perarmata nov.sp. ( Figs 59 and 229-230 )

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: 1 and 2, same provenance as the holotype (CROU, MSNV).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 2-2.12 mm. Body shiny, brown, head third and fourth free abdominal tergites blackish-brown, antennae black with the two basal antennomeres reddish-brown, legs dirty yellow. Second antennomere shorter than the first, third shorter than the second, fourth and fifth as long as wide, sixth to tenth transverse. Eyes shorter than the postocular region in dorsal view. Fore-body devoid of reticulation, that of the abdomen transverse and strong. Head very finely and densely punctate. Granulation of pronotum and elytra very dense and superficial, that of the first three free tergites fine and close, that of the two following less close. Longitudinal median impression of the pronotum feeble. Aedeagus: Fig. 229 ; spermatheca: Fig. 230.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The aedeagus of the new species is similar to that of A. kinabaluensis PACE, 2008 also from Borneo, but the length of the aedeagus of the new species is 0.17 mm, while the length of the aedeagus of A. kinabaluensis is 0.22 mm. The internal sclerotized pieces of the aedeagus of the new species is includes a curved lamina extending to the apex, that of A. kinabaluensis a thin tubule.

E t y m o l o g y: The name of the new species "highly armed" refers to the strongly sclerotised pieces 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 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.

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.