Afidentula manderstjerane bhutani ssp. nov.

(Figs. 47–56, 172)

Diagnosis. Differs from the nominotypical form in having median tooth of mandible provided with a few very small denticles and the pronotum without black macula, but can be identified without a doubt only by comparison of the male genitalia (Figs. 49–52).

Description. Length 3.68 mm; TL/EW = 1.24; PL/PW = 0.42; EL/EW = 1.04; EW/PW = 1.64.

Pronotum light brown, darker medially; each elytron with six small brown spots arranged as 2–3–1, with apical spot weakly transverse. Meso and metaventrite brown. Abdomen light brown.

Antenna with antennomere 3 longer than antennomeres 4–6 together; antennomere 4 subquadrate, antennomere 5 longer than wide and longer than 4; antennomeres 6 and 7 subquadrate and 8 transverse. Mandibles three-dentate; median tooth with a few additional very small denticles.

Prosternal process (Fig. 47) subtruncate apically; about 1.65 times wider than prosternum in front of procoxae in narrowest place. Metaventrite (Fig. 47) without distinct groove behind raised border of intercoxal process.

Abdomen and male abdominal ventrite 6, and tergite VIII as in Figs. 48, 53, 54.

Male terminalia and genitalia (Figs. 49–52, 55, 56). Tergite IX not divided dorsally. Apodeme of sternite IX long and thin, about 2.5 times as long as width of tergite X. Tergite X arcuate at apex. Penis guide in lateral view broadest along basal third, apical ½ distinctly narrower, apex pointed and slightly curved outwardly; parameres shorter than penis guide. Penis thin with apical part submembranous, curved outwardly, somewhat pointed.

Female not known.

Type material. Holotype, male: “ Bhutan: Samchi, 300 m, 7-11.5., Nat.-Hist. Museum Basel—Bhutan Expedition 1972/ Afidentula manderstjernae (Muls.) det. R. Bielawski 1978” (MIZ).

Etymology. The name is derived after the type locality of this subspecies. Distribution. Bhutan.