Zyras (Camonia) pugnax, 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 : 1343-1344

Zyras (Camonia) pugnax nov.sp. ( Figs 57-60 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype, Brit. O. Afrika, Kibwezi, 1907, Leg. Scheffler (MNHUB). Paratype: 1, same origin (MNHUB).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 6 mm. Body shiny and yellowish-red, head and free aabdominal tergites free three and four reddish, antennae yellowish-red with the two basal antennomeres yellow, yellowish-red legs. Reticulation of the fore-body strong, that of the three basal free tergitgites evident, on the remaining free tergites superficial. Puncturation of head and pronotum fine and evident, that of the elytra double, with sparse strong punctures on a densely and finely punctuate background. Pronotum with two strong discal punctures. Fourth free tergite of the male with a feeble median carina, fifth with four strong granules in a transverse row, Fig. 57 . Aedeagus Figs 58-59 , spermatheca Fig. 60.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: In the secondary sexual characters of the first free abdominall tergite of the male, the new species is comparable to Z. vioensis PACE 1988 from Guinea-Bissau. The new species differs from Z. vioensis in the transverse pronotum, while that of Z. vioensis is as long as wide. In ventral view, the apex of the aedeagus of the new species is very narrow, that of Z. vioensis very broad.

E t y m o l o g y: The name of the new species derives from the Latin pugnax = warlike.

Figures

Figs 57-64: Habitus, aedeagus in lateral and ventral views, spermatheca. (57-60) Zyras (Camonia) pugnax nov.sp.; (61-64) Zyras (Camonia) civilis nov.sp. Habitus scale bar Fig. 57: 6 mm; Fig. 61: 5.5 mm, other scale bars: 0.1 mm.