Nopromaea inintellecta, 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 : 1333-1334

Nopromaea inintellecta nov.sp. ( Figs 1-3 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype, O. Afrika, Derema, XII.1891 , leg Conradt ( MNHUB).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 4.1 mm. Body shiny and brown, femora, posterior border of the first to third free abdominal tergites and pygidium reddish, antennae reddish with the three basal antennomeres and apex of the eleventh yellowish-red, legs yellowish-red. Body devoid of reticulation. Puncturation of the head umbilicate, deep and close, that of pronotum, elytra and abdomen strong. Pronotum with wide median depression. Aedeagus Figs 2-3.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The aedeagus of the new species is broadly arched to the ventral side as in that of N. africana ( EPPELSHEIM 1895) (olim Pronomaea), of which I have examined the holotype male of Togo Cuno (NHMW). The new species differs from N. africana in the antennomeres four to ten being longer than wide, while in N. africana are as long as wide. The eyes of the new species are longer than the postocular region in dorsal view, those of N. africana are shorter than the postocular region. The bottom of the basal transverse sulci of the free urotergites of the new species is strongly punctate, while in N. africana the sulci are without puncturation. The apex of the aedeagus of the new species is narrow, that of N. africana wide and ogival.

E t y m o l o g y: The name of the new species means "not understand" because in a first examination it seemed me to be N. africana .

Figures

Figs 1-5: Habitus, aedeagus in lateral and ventral views, spermatheca: (1-3) Nopromaea inintellecta nov.sp.; (4-5) Nopromaea kamerunensis nov.sp. Habitus scale bar Fig. 1: 4.1 mm; Fig. 4: 4.1 mm, other scale bars: 0.1 mm.