Nopromaea kamerunensis, 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 : 1334

Nopromaea kamerunensis nov.sp. ( Figs 4-5 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype, Kamerun, Joh. Albrechtshöhe, 28.II-9.III.1896, leg. Conradt ( MNHUB).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 4.1 mm. Body shiny and brown, posterior border of the three basal free abdominal tergites and pygidium reddish-brown, antennae reddish-brown with basal antennomere reddish, legs reddish. Fore-body devoid of reticulation, reticulation of the abdomen fine and superficial. Puncturation of head and pronotum dense, strong and deep, that of the elytra evident and less close, absent in the bottom of the basal transverse sulci of the free urotergites. Pronotum with wide median sulcus. Spermatheca Fig. 5.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The spermatheca of the new species is similar to that of N. uhligi PACE 1999 from Namibia. The new species differs in the apical prolongation of the distal bulb of the spermatheca being short, while it is very long in N. uhligi . The distal bulb of the spermatheca of the new species is a little broader than the proximal bulb, while that of N. uhligi is wide almost the double the length. The antennomeres five to ten of the new species are longer than wide, those of N. uhligi are transverse.

E t y m o l o g y:

The name of the new species derives from that of the Cameroon.

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.