Diochus setatus Huang, Janák & Zhou, 2024

Huang, Tian, Janák, Jiří & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2024, Six new species and a key to 12 species of the genus Diochus Erichson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae, Diochini) from India, Nepal and Pakistan, Zootaxa 5538 (6), pp. 501-545 : 516-517

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5538.6.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14248201
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scientific name	Diochus setatus Huang, Janák & Zhou
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

4. Diochus setatus Huang, Janák & Zhou , sp. nov.

( Figs 1B View FIGURE 1 ; 5-1; 5-2)

Type locality. Myanmar: Kalaw .

Type material. Holotype: male, MYANMAR: BURMA, Kalaw , 19: III: 1982, de Rougemont ( GROC) . Paratype: INDIA: Assam: 1 male, Manas , 200 m, 23.X. 78, Besuchet-Löbl ( MHNG) . Holotype with an identification label: “ HOLOTYPUS Diochus setatus sp. nov. Huang, Janák & Zhou det. 2024”. Paratype with identification label: “ PARATYPUS Diochus setatus sp. nov. Huang, Janák & Zhou det. 2024”.

Measurements. BL = 5.77 mm, FL = 2.83 mm, HL = 0.70 mm, HW = 0.53 mm, EyL = 0.22 mm, TL = 0.39 mm, ANL = 1.69 mm, ANT1 = 0.24 mm, ANT2 = 0.14 mm, ANT3 = 0.21 mm, ANT4 = 0.14 mm, ANT 11 = 0.14 mm, PL = 0.94 mm, PW = 0.79 mm, EL = 0.97 mm, EW = 0.97 mm, SL = 0.73 mm.

Description. Body long, narrowed anteriorly and posteriorly, large-sized. Body dark brown, abdominal intersegmental membrane lighter. Legs brown, tarsi distinctly lighter. Antennae brown, apex of each antennomere lighter. Maxillary and labial palpi brown.

Head (Figs 5-1A, K). Oblong in shape, 1.31 times as long as wide. Tempora straight and parallel, posterior angles rounded. Dorsal surface shiny, bearing distinct and transverse microstriae, also with coarse and sparse punctures. Head with 5–7 irregular punctures scattered around each eye and numerous smaller punctures on deflexed portion of tempus and near posterior margin. Each side of cranium with characteristic punctures: one frontal puncture on frontal region, two anterolateral punctures near antennal insertion, three lateral punctures near dorsal margin of eye, with temporal puncture and occipital puncture near basal margin; disc surface bearing two additional paired punctures in middle area. Frontal furrows and anteocular furrows absent. Eye large-sized, distinctly protruding laterad, longitudinal diameter longer than half the length of tempora (eye: tempora = 0.56). Epistoma not flattened, abruptly oblique, anterior margin slightly emarginate medially. Distance between antennal insertions (0.16 mm) distinctly longer than distance from antenna to eye (0.11 mm). Ventral surface with scattered punctures, interspaces between them about 4 puncture diameters. Gular sutures deep, confluent near the base.

Antennae (Fig 5-1B). Scape rod-shaped, slightly thickened apically, distinctly shorter than two subsequent antennomeres combined; antennomere 2 slightly elongate, antennomere 3 distinctly longer than 2; length of antennomere 4 about twice of width, antennomere 4 to 10 gradually shortened, antennomere 4 observably longer than 10; antennomere 11 distinctly longer than 10.

Mouthparts (Figs 5-1A, K). Labrum oval-shaped, lateral margin rounded, widest at basal 1/3 to 1/2; width of anterior margin is about 1/3 the width at the widest point. Mandibles (Fig 5-1D) falciform, left one with three small teeth on inner margin, whereas right one with two.

Neck (Figs 5-1A, K). Cylindrical, shiny, only bearing shallow microsculpture, width 0.13 mm, shorter than 1/3 of head width. Dorsal surface with distinct groove; ventral surface depressed, with gular sutures forming obvious triangular region, transverse median furrow not distinct.

Prothorax (Figs 5-1A, K). Pronotum elongate (PL to PW ratio 1.19), distinctly longer and wider than head. Anterior region near anterior angles strongly deflexed, lateral margins widened posteriad to basal 1/3 (widest at 1/3), then convergent backwards, anterior and posterior angles broadly rounded. Dorsal surface glossy, extensively with micropunctures, but without any microsculpture. Each side of longitudinal midline with one row of punctures composed of 3 large punctures and 2 additional punctures outside of puncture row, 13–15 punctures scattered near each margin (including anterior, lateral and posterior margins). Prosternum bearing an observable transverse ridge between basisternum and furcasternum, angularly backwards.

Pterothorax (Figs 5-1A, K). Mesoscutellum small and triangular, surface shiny, bearing distinct microstriae, but without any punctures. Transverse ridge on mesoventrite wave shaped; the paired oblique furrows short but deep; the carina delimiting mesocoxal cavity slightly arcuate. Discrimen region on metaventrite normally elevated.

Elytra (Figs 5-1A, K). Elytra yellowish brown, as long as wide (EL to EW ratio 1.00), distinctly longer and wider than pronotum. Humeri well developed, lateral margins divergent posteriorly, posterior margin not rounded, but obliquely truncate. Dorsal surface shiny, flattened, without microsculpture; each elytron with row of 5 punctures along suture, row of 5 punctures on disc, also with 4−5 rows of punctures on deflexed portion.

Legs (Fig 5-1C). First four segments of protarsi heart-shaped, moderately dilated, and those of meso- and metatarsi slender. Last segment of protarsi slightly longer than 2−4 together, that of meso-, meta- nearly equal to the length of each 2−3.

Abdomen. Broadest at segment V. Tergites III–VII covered with dense and obvious transverse microstriae; each tergite with dense brown pubescence, also with row of darker and coarser setae at posterior margin of III–VI. Tergites III–VII with a basal impression near anterior margin, respectively, each one only possessing one basal transverse carina; all abdominal tergites with surface shiny, bearing polygonal microsculpture, with dense punctures. Posterior margin of tergite VII with distinct palisade fringe. All abdominal sternites shiny, with microstriae and punctures as those on tergites.

Male (Figs 5-1E–J, L−M; 5-2A–E). Head with a small oval elevation between eyes. Posterior margin of sternite VIII emarginate medially, with numerous very dense setae (Figs 5-1E, L; 5-2B). Posterior margin of tergite VIII arcuate (Figs 5-1F; 5-2C). Tergite IX (Figs 5-1H; 5-2D) symmetrical, connected mediobasally, narrowed apically. Sternite IX (Figs 5-1G; 5-2E) symmetrical, widest near basal 1/3 to 1/2; basal margin slightly emarginate, apical margin normally emarginate; width of apical margin slightly shorter than basal margin. Tergite X (Figs 5-1H; 5-2D) symmetrical, triangular. Aedeagus (Figs 5-1I−J, M; 5-2A) symmetrical, large-sized, ca. 0.72 mm long, normally sclerotized. Parameres symmetrical, thin and long, reaching the apical quarter of median lobe. Internal structures sclerotized, a large-sized hook-shaped sclerite on top in brown color, two paired strip-shaped sclerites and paired rectangular sclerites in the middle in brown color. Sperm pump coiled, thinned toward apex.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Myanmar, India.

Diagnosis. According to the elongated antennae and numerous short and dense setae on posterior margin of male sternite VIII, this species can be easily distinguished from most other species. D. conicollis has elongate antennae and numerous setae on male sternite VIII, which are similar to this species, but the male sternite VIII in D. conicollis is more shallowly emarginate and with less dense setae and the aedeagus of D. conicollis has shorter parameres and different inner structure.

Etymology. The name refers to dense setae on posterior margin of male sternite VIII.