Thyreocephalus depressus, Bordoni, 2013

Bordoni, A., 2013, New data on the Xantholinini from China. 24. New genus, new species and new records of the Shanghai Normal University collection (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 244 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae, Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1745-1797 : 1749

Thyreocephalus depressus nov.sp.

M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: Holotype: Yunnan, Maku village , Dulong coun., Dulong & Nu, Minority County, 1814 m, 27.68545N, 098.30419E, Liu Ye 29.VIII.2005 ( SNUC); paratype: Yunnan, Gongshan, coun., Heiwadi, Jian-Qing Zhu 7.VI.2009, 1 (cB).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length of body about 17 mm; from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra: 9 mm. Body flat, black, with reddish genital segment; abdomen a little brownish. Head and pronotum and related puncturation as in Fig. 9 . Puncturation of head particularly dense, partially oblong. Labrum as in Fig. 10 . Elytra sub-rectangular, longer and wider than pronotum, with marked humeral angles. Surface with deep, dense puncturation, arranged in some series; the median serie oblique. Abdomen with very fine and dense, transverse micro-striature and very fine and sparse puncturation, arranged in few series.

Male genital segment particularly long and narrow ( Fig. 11 ); sternite of the same as in Fig. 12 . Aedeagus ( Fig. 13 ) 1, 7 mm long, of particular shape, with long median lobe; parameres long and symmetrical; inner sac tube-like, very narrow, folded numerous time on itself, with sparse, minute scales.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet refers to the flat body.

G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Yunnan.

Figures

Figs 8-12: aedeagus of Thyreocephalus macrophallus nov.sp. (8) (bar scale: 0,5 mm); head and pronoum (bar scale: 1 mm), labrum, male genital segment, sternite of the same of Thyreocephalus depressus nov.sp. (9-12).

Figs 13-18: aedeagus of Thyreocephalus depressus nov.sp (13) (bar scale: 0,5 mm); head and pronoum (bar scale: 1 mm), labrum, tergite, sternite of the male genital segment, aedeagus (bar scale: 0,5 mm) of Thyreocephalus pseudolorquini nov.sp. (14-18).