Ischnopodalingshani Pa, 2006

PA – NIK, GRZEGORZ, 2006, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the World species of the genus Ischnopoda Stephens, 1837 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 1179 (1), pp. 1-96 : 49-51

Ischnopodalingshani Pa ś nik, sp. n. ( Figs. 44–45 )

Type material. Holotype: ♂: China: Lingshan Mountains, Beijing Forest Ecosystem , 18– 19.X.2000, G. Paśnik ( ISEA).

Description. Body. Length 3.2 mm, convex, parallel­sided, glossy; body colour black; elytral posterior margin and humeri brownish red, three basal tergites brownish red, legs and antennae testaceous.

Head circular in outline, convex, glossy, narrower than pronotum, widest across eyes; eyes relatively small, moderately protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above shorter than postocular region; surface of head without microsculpture; puncturation fine and dense; pubescence short and moderately sparse, directed inward. Antennae long, clearly increased in width apically, antennomere 3 shorter than 2, antennomeres 4–8 longer than wide, antennomeres 9–10 quadrate, antennomere 11 nearly conical.

Pronotum subquadrate, moderately convex, glossy, widest in apical third, lateral sides rounded in front, gradually narrowed in straight line to rounded hind angles; before base with moderately small and shallow transverse impression; surface without microsculpture; puncturation fine, moderately dense and asperate; pubescence at midline directed entirely anteriorly.

Elytra subquadrate, slightly wider than pronotum, at suture as long as pronotum at midline; surface lacking microsculpture; puncturation fine, dense and asperate.

Abdomen parallel­sided, bases of tergites 3–5 each with deep transverse impression, impressions coarsely and densely punctuate, tergal puncturation uniformly fine and dense, surface without microsculpture.Male. Aedeagus as in Figs. 44–45 .

Female unknown.

Remarks. See under I. assingi .

Etymology. The name is derived from Lingshan Mountains where the new species was found.

Distribution. The species is known only from type locality.

Figures

FIGURES 44–45. Ischnopoda lingshani Paśnik, sp. n.: 44—aedeagus in lateral view, 45— aedeagus in ventral view.