Typhlotectusa frischi nov.sp. (Figs 1-10) T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype ♂: " Kyrgyzstan: Issyk-Kul, Kyzyl-Tuu - Kyzyl-Suu: S Barskoon, Barskaun Pass, 3770 m, N41°53'30'' E077°41'59'', 24.06.2011, leg. J. Frisch / Holotypus ♂ Typhlotectusa frischi sp. n., det. V. Assing 2019" (cAss).

E t y m o l o g y: This remarkable species is dedicated to Johannes Frisch, who collected the holotype.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 2.5 mm; length of forebody 1.05 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 1. Coloration: body yellowish-red with dark-yellow legs and antennae.

Head (Figs 2-3) weakly oblong; punctation very fine and rather dense, barely visible in the pronounced microreticulation. Eyes completely reduced, not even rudiments visible (Fig. 3). Antenna 0.6 mm long; antennomere III of conical shape and weakly oblong; antennomeres IV-X strongly transverse, more than twice as broad as long, and of gradually increasing width, XI slightly longer than the combined length of IX and X.

Pronotum (Fig. 2) very weakly transverse, only 1.05 times as brad as long and 1.05 times as broad as head, with weakly marked posterior angles; punctation dense and extremely fine, nearly invisible in the pronounced microreticulation even at high magnification.

Elytra (Fig. 2) short and slender, as broad as, and 0.7 times as long as pronotum; punctation dense and fine, but more distinct than that of head and pronotum; interstices with shallow microsculpture and glossy. Hind wings completely reduced.

Abdomen 1.1 times as broad as elytra at segment VI; punctation fine and moderately dense; interstices with microsculpture; posterior margin of tergite VII without palisade fringe; posterior margin of tergite VIII truncate (Fig. 5).

♂: sternite VIII (Fig. 6) approximately as long as broad, with weakly convex posterior margin; median lobe of aedeagus 0.27 mm long and shaped as in Figs 8-9; paramere (Fig. 10) 0.36 mm long.

♀: unknown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d n a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The type locality is situated in East Kyrgyzstan to the south of Issyk-Kul lake. The holotype was collected at an altitude of nearly 3800 m.