Ecomorypora granulata ( BROUN 1912)

Paśnik, G., 2007, Review of the New Zealand genus Ecomorypora CAMERON (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with description of three new species, Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2), pp. 1101-1110 : 1102-1103

Ecomorypora granulata ( BROUN 1912) (Fig. 6)

Myrmecopora granulata BROUN 1912: 398 .

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype :: New Zealand, Broken River ( BMNH). R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Body. Length 5.5 mm, convex, parallel-sided, glossy (Fig. 6); body colour black, elytra brown, antennae and legs black, tarsi red.

Head circular in outline, convex, glossy, narrower than pronotum, widest across eyes; eyes moderately small, protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above shorter than postocular region; surface of head with fine meshed microsculpture; punctuation fine and dense; pubescence short and dense, directed inward. Antennae long, very weakly increase in width apically, antennomere 3 longer than 2, antennomeres 4-10 longer than wide, decreasing in length.

Pronotum quadrate, moderately convex, glossy, widest in apical third, lateral sides gradually narrowed in straight line to rounded hind angles; before base with transverse impression, surface with very fine meshed microsculpture; punctuation minute, pinpricklike and dense; pubescence at midline directed anteriorly.

Elytra elongate, slightly wider than pronotum, at suture longer than pronotal length at midline; surface without microsculpture; punctuation relatively fine and dense, interstices between punctures smaller than their diameter, pubescence short and dense.

Abdomen parallel-sided, bases of tergites III-VI each with deep transverse impression, impressions punctuate, tergal punctuation fine and dense; surface of tergites with fine transversely stretched isodiametric mesh; surface of tergites VI and VII covered by large granules.

Male. Genital segment missing.

Female unknown.

R e m a r k s Ecomorypora granulata is very similar to E. pseudogranulata nov.sp., from which it can be easy distinguished by the distinct microsculpture of head and pronotum, the minute, pinprick-like punctuation of pronotum and by the sparser abdominal punctuation.