Zyras (Ctenodonia) sericeicollis, Pace, 2012

Pace, R., 2012, New data and new species of Aleocharinae from Tropical Africa in the Natural History Museum of the Humboldt University, Berlin (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2), pp. 1331-1362 : 1345

Zyras (Ctenodonia) sericeicollis nov.sp. ( Figs 70-72 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype, Kamerun, Bosum , bei Termiten, 30.IV.1914, leg. G. Tessmann ( MNHUB).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 6 mm. Head and elytra of the male feebly opaque, pronotum opaque, abdomen shiny. Body yellowish-red, head reddish-brown, antennae and legs yellowish-red. antennae laterally compressed. Reticulation of the fore-body strong, that of the abdomen evident. Puncturation of head and elytra fine and very superficial, that of the pronotum indistinct. Antennae laterally compressed. Pronotum with a fine median sulcus. Aedeagus Figs 71-72.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: In the form of the aedeagus and in habitus, the new species is similar to Z. palliolatus PACE 1988 from Guinea-Bissau. It differs in the presence of four basal genital lamina of the internal part of the aedeagus, absent in the aedeagus of Z. palliolatus . Among the antennae of the new species there is a pore, in the antennae of Z. palliolatus there is a bump.

E t y m o l o g y: The name of the new species refers its opaque pronotum of silky aspect.

Figures

Figs 65-70: Habitus, aedeagus in lateral and ventral views, spermatheca. (65-67) Zyras (Camonia) malawensis nov.sp.; (68-69) Zyras (Camonia) bayeri nov.sp.; (70) Zyras (Ctenodonia) sericeicollis nov.sp. Habitus scale bar Fig. 65: 7 mm; Fig. 68: 6.1 mm; Fig. 70: 6 mm, other scale bars: 0.1 mm.

Figs 71-76: Aedeagus in lateral and ventral views, habitus, spermatheca. (71-72) Zyras (Ctenodonia) sericeicollis nov.sp.; (73-74) Zyras (Ctenodonia) torosus nov.sp.; (75-76) Zyras (Ctenodonia) gombanus nov.sp. Habitus scale bar Fig. 73: 6 mm, Fig. 75; 9 mm, other scale bars: 0.1 mm.