Austracoenonica laminaris, Pace, 2015

Pace, Roberto, 2015, New genera and new species of Aleocharinae from Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2), pp. 327-339 : 330

Austracoenonica laminaris spec. nov.

( Figs 6 , 28–32 )

Type material: Holotype , Australia, Queensland, Mt. Tambourine , 5.III.1997, leg. Wachtel ( CSCÜ).

Description: Length 2.4 mm. Body shiny, convex, reddish, antennae brown with the three basal antennomeres reddish and the eleventh yellow, legs yellowish-red. Eyes longer than the postocular region in dorsal view. Second antennomere as long as the first one, third shorter than the second one, fourth to tenth transverse. Reticulation of the body absent. Head and pronotum dotting close and superficial, that of the abdomen evident, more close at the base of each free urotergite of the male and at the bottom of the three basal sulci. Granularity of the elytra close and salient. Fifth free urotergite of the male with salient and sharp median keel that doesn’t reach the posterior edge. Aedeagus as in Figs 28–29 .

Etymology: The new species take its name from internal lamina of aedeagus.

Figures

Figs 1–12: Habitus. 1: Brachida linsaymontis spec. nov.; 2: Sternotropa linsaymontis spec. nov.; 3: Sternotropa tambourinensis spec. nov.; 4: Sternotropa brisbanensis spec. nov.; 5: Austraepiskia barrinensis gen. nov., spec. nov.; 6: Austracoenonica laminaris gen. nov., spec. nov.; 7: Tryphopsichara australiana gen. nov., spec. nov.;8: Leptostiba tambourinensis spec. nov.; 9: Atheta (Acrotona) wachteli spec. nov.; 10: Atheta (Traumoecia) tambourinensis spec. nov.; 11: Gastropaga brisbanensis spec. nov.; 12: Gastropaga barrinensis spec. nov.

Figs 24–34: Spermatheca, labium with labial palpus, mentum, maxilla with maxillary palpus, aedeagus in lateral and ventral view. 24–27: Austraepiskiabarrinensis gen. nov., spec. nov.;28–32: Austracoenonica laminaris gen. nov., spec. nov.;33–34: Tryphopsichara australiana gen. nov., spec. nov.