Glabrimycetoporus amoenus Yue, Zhao & Ren

Yue, Yanli, Zhao, Yunyun & Ren, Dong, 2009, Glabrimycetoporus amoenus, a new tachyporine genus and species of Mesozoic Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) from Liaoning, China, Zootaxa 2225, pp. 63-68 : 67

Glabrimycetoporus amoenus Yue, Zhao & Ren sp. nov.

( Figs. 1 , 2 )

Type material. Holotype: nearly complete adult, male, No. CNU-COL-LB2007501P, CNU-COL- LB2007501C, part and counterpart, respectively.

Locality and horizon. Collected from the 2nd bed of the Yixian Formation in Huangbanjigou, near Chaomidian Village, Shangyuan Township, Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, China.

Description. Body length 10.3 mm, elongate and slender, widest at apex of elytra.

Head ( Figs. 1 C, 2D) transverse, length slightly greater than width (ratio 1.21); compound eyes moderately large, prominent laterally; labrum with anterior margin arcuate; relative length of antennal segments from first to last: 24.0: 22.0: 21.0: 22.0: 24.0: 22.0: 21.0: 16.0: 16.0: 16.0: 25.0; apex of antenna reaching slightly beyond base of pronotum; frontoclypeal suture distinct and broad.

Pronotum ( Figs. 1 A, 2B) transverse, with length to width ratio 0.6, obviously wider than head. Scutellum subtriangular. Elytra 1.4 times longer than pronotum at midline; sides gradually widened posteriad. Metatibia and metatarsus of equal length.

Abdomen ( Figs. 2 A, 2B) with moderately dense, fine and even punctation.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective amoenus , meaning lovely.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Glabrimycetoporus amoenus Yue, Zhao & Ren gen. et sp. nov., line drawings of the holotype. A—ventral view, No. CNU-COL-LB 2007501 C; B—dorsal view, No. CNU-COL-LB 2007501 P; C—head; D—apex of the abdomen with exposed aedeagus.

FIGURE 2. Glabrimycetoporus amoenus Yue, Zhao & Ren gen. et sp. nov., photograph of the holotype. A—part; No. CNU-COL-LB 2007501 P; B—counterpart, No. CNU-COL-LB 2007501 C; C—apex of the abdomen with exposed aedeagus, No. CNU-COL-LB 2007501 C; D—head, No. CNU-COL-LB 2007501 C.