Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) lacca Cameron, 1939

Enuschenko, Ilya V. & Shavrin, Alexey V., 2021, On some species of Gyrophaenina Kraatz 1856 of Sri Lanka and India (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Homalotini), Zootaxa 5032 (3), pp. 331-356 : 343-344

Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) lacca Cameron, 1939

( Figs 50–56 )

Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) lacca Cameron, 1939: 82

Type material examined: Syntypes of Gyrophaena lacca Cameron 1939: 1 ♂ [dissected; labels as in Fig. 56 ]: ‘Theog 7600 Simla Hills. Dr. Cameron. 11. IX. 1921 ’, ‘SYN- TYPE’, ‘M. Cameron. Bequest. B.M. 1955–147.’ ( BMNH); 1 ♀ [dissected]: ‘Gahan 7000 | Simla Hills. | Dr. Cameron | IX.1921 ’ <printed>, ‘SYN- | TYPE’ <round label with blue frame, printed>, ‘M. Cameron. | Bequest. | B.M. 1955–147.’ <printed> ( BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘Matiana 7900 | Simla Hills. | Dr. Cameron. | 13. IX. 1921 ’ <printed>, ‘SYN- | TYPE’ <round label with blue frame, printed>, ‘M. Cameron. | Bequest. | B.M. 1955–147.’ <printed> ( BMNH); 1 ♂: ‘Matiana 7900 | Simla Hills.’ <printed>, ‘Dr. Cameron. | IX. 1921.’ <printed>, ‘SYN- | TYPE’ <round label with blue frame, printed>, ‘M. Cameron. | Bequest. | B.M. 1955–147.’ <printed>, ‘ lacca 2. | Cam.[eron]’ <handwritten> ( BMNH).All syntypes with additional handwrit- ten label: ‘ Gyrophaena | lacca Cameron | Enushchenko I.V. | inv. 2019’.

Distribution. India (Himachal Pradesh).

Remarks. Habitus as in Fig. 50 .

Male. Median lobe wide, with short and wide dorsal plate, moderately long, folded flagellum, and wide ventral projection, from middle sharply narrowed toward arrow-shaped apical portion, with round apex, not reaching level of apical margin of dorsal plate ( Fig. 51 ). Apical margin of abdominal tergite VIII with two long latero-apical projections and moderately wide mediapical projection narrowed apically and divided into two very short teeth with small notch between them, with deep and moderately wide concavity between each lateroapical and medioapical projections ( Fig. 52 ). Apical margin of abdominal sternite VIII rounded ( Fig. 53 ).

Female. Apical margin of abdominal tergite VIII somewhat truncated ( Fig. 54 ). Apical margin of abdominal sternite VIII rounded ( Fig. 55 ).

Figures

FIGURES 50–56. Gyrophaena lacca (syntype): 50–habitus, 51–aedeagus, lateral view, 52–male abdominal tergite VIII, dorsal view, 53–male abdominal sternite VIII, ventral view, 54–female abdominal tergite VIII, dorsal view, 55–female abdominal sternite VIII, ventral view, 56– labels. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (Fig. 50), 0.10 mm (Figs 51–55).