Brasura piscinura sp. nov.

(Figs 2, 4, 6, 22–28)

Description. Measurements. Male body length 10.05 mm; head width 2.61 mm; crown length×width: 0.88× 1.06 mm; eye width 0.89 mm; frontoclypeus length 2.18 mm; clypellus length 1.01 mm; pronotum length×width 1.05× 3.11 mm; mesonotum+scutellum length 1.63 mm. Female unknown.

Crown light brown with a pair of darker maculae mesad of posteromedial eye corners (Fig. 2). Pronotum and mesonotum piceous with light brown granules; scutellum brown (Fig. 2). Elytra fuscous with light brown spots along veins, surface densely covered with numerous tiny pale spots (Figs 2, 6). Ratio of crown, pronotum and mesonotum midline is about 1:1.19:1.85.

Male genitalia. Pygofer without processes, broad and swollen caudodorsally (Fig. 23). Segment X broad, lateral margins conveX (Fig. 22). Aedeagus moderately narrow with few short spines subbasally; distal half of shaft eXpanded, with row of numerous setiform spines on each side, strongly constricted subapically with apical section recurved to left; apeX widened and concave distally with serrated margin; gonopore lateral at midlength of shaft (Figs 24–25). Dorsal connective stick-like (Fig. 25). Style very short, attenuated distally with blunt apeX (Fig. 26). Connective asymmetrical with triangular base, anterior arms long and curved, apeX recurved (Fig. 27). Subgenital plate slender, outer margin slightly conveX, rounded apically with fine spines (Fig. 28).

Material examined. Holotype: male, Republic of the Congo: Department Pool, 3°06.020′S 15°31.440′E, 330m, 26 Aug. 2008, coll. M. Braet and M. Sharkey.

Etymology. The new species name is a Latin word, meaning fish tail, referring to the shape of the apeX of the aedeagus.

Remarks. This species resembles B. peditata Nielson but differs in having a dense row of spines on both sides of the aedeagal shaft and the apeX of the aedeagus fish tail shaped.