Tychus spurius Sabella, 2011

Sabella, Giorgio, Brachat, Volker & Kurbatov, Serguei A, 2012, New species of Tychus from Greece and Turkey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (2), pp. 195-214 : 209

Tychus spurius Sabella, 2011 Figs 27, 30

MATERIAL EXAMINED: PCVB, 1♀; Turkey, Sinop Prov., 15 km SW Sinop, S Kilih, 80 m, grassy road margin, 41°57’02’’N 35°02’06’’E; 03.04.2009; V. Assing .

DESCRIPTION: Length 1.70 mm. Winged. Body uniformly dark brown with legs and palpi yellowih.

Head as wide as long (0. 300 mm), frontal rostrum 0.165 mm wide and 0.060 long. Eyes with 18 facets. Occipital region slightly convex. Antennae (Fig. 27) 0.770 mm long, club 0.310 mm long; scape and antennomeres II and III distinctly longer than wide; IV as long as wide; V wider than IV and wider than long; VI, VII and VIII wider than long, VII wider than VI and VIII. Apical segment of maxillary palpi 0.190 mm long and 0.085 mm wide.

Pronotum wider (0.365 mm) than long (0.330 mm) with small antebasal foveae in shallow impressions.

Elytra wider (0.650 mm) than long (0.510 mm) with humeri not very protruding. Discal fovea joined to discal stria, latter reaching more than elytral mid-length.

Abdomen with first tergite 0.220 mm long, basal impression extending more than 1/3 of tergal width.

Genital plate as in Fig. 30.