Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) ceylonica Cameron, 1939

Enuschenko, Ilya V. & Shavrin, Alexey V., 2021, On some species of Gyrophaenina Kraatz 1856 of Sri Lanka and India (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Homalotini), Zootaxa 5032 (3), pp. 331-356 : 334

Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) ceylonica Cameron, 1939

( Figs 5–9 )

Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) ceylonica Cameron, 1939: 91

Type material examined: Holotype of Gyrophaena ceylonica Cameron 1939 , ♂ [dissected; labels as in Fig. 9 ]: ‘ Ceylon.’, ‘Thwaites. 67-25’, ‘ G. ceylonica TYPE Cam.’, ‘Holo- type’, ‘ Holotype Gyrophaena ceylonica Cam. det. R.G. Booth 2006’, ‘ Ceylonica Cam. ’, ‘Investigated by Enushchenko I. V. 2019 ’ ( BMNH).

Distribution. Sri Lanka.

Remarks. Body length: 1.75 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 5 .

Male. Median lobe narrow, long, with hook-shaped apical portion ( Fig. 6 ). Apical margin of abdominal tergite VIII with two moderately long processes and rounded emargination between them ( Fig. 7 ). Abdominal sternite VIII rounded ( Fig. 8 ).

Female unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 5–9. Gyrophaena ceylonica (holotype): 5–habitus, 6–aedeagus, lateral view, 7–male abdominal tergite VIII, ventral view, 8–male abdominal sternite VIII, ventral view, 9–labels of the holotype. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (Fig. 5), 0.10 mm (Figs 6–8).