Ischnopodabasilewskyi ( Tottenham, 1957 ) PA–NIK, 2006

PA – NIK, GRZEGORZ, 2006, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the World species of the genus Ischnopoda Stephens, 1837 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 1179 (1), pp. 1-96 : 82-84

Ischnopodabasilewskyi ( Tottenham, 1957) , comb. n. ( Figs. 94–96 )

Amanota basilewskyi Tottenham, 1957: 122 .

Type material. Holotype: ♂: Urundi [ Burundi]: Bururi, Nyamurembe , 900 m, 7.III.1953, P. Basilewsky ( MRAC) . Paratype: ♀: same data as holotype ( MRAC) .

Redescription. Body. Length 2.8–3.3 mm, convex, parallel­sided, glossy; body colour pitchy black; abdominal tergites 3–4 reddish brown, legs brown, antennae brown with antennomeres 1–2 and 10–11 reddish yellow.

Head quadrate in outline, moderately convex, narrowly and moderately deeply impressed medially; eyes large, moderately protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above subequal to that of postocular region; surface of head without microsculpture; puncturation relatively coarse and dense. Antennae long, increased in width apically, antennomeres 2 and 3 subequal in length, antennomeres 4–10 longer than wide, decreasing in length, antennomere 11 nearly conical.

Pronotum subquadrate, moderately convex, narrowly and moderately deeply impressed medially, lateral sides concavely narrowed to obtuse hind angles; before base with deep transverse impression; surface without microsculpture, puncturation coarse and dense; pubescence at midline directed posteriorly in apical half and anteriorly in basal half.

Elytra subquadrate, at suture as long as pronotum at midline; surface without microsculpture; puncturation fine and dense, much finer than that on pronotum.

Abdomen parallel­sided, bases of tergites 3–5 each with deep transverse impression, impressions coarsely and densely punctuate; tergal puncturation fine and moderately dense, surface lacking microsculpture.

Male. Aedeagus as in Figs. 94–95 .

Female. Spermatheca as in Fig. 96 .

Remarks. See under I. capensis .

Distribution. The species is known so far only from one locality in Burundi.

Figures

FIGURES 94–96. Ischnopoda basilewskyi (Tottenham): 94—aedeagus in lateral view, 95— aedeagus in ventral view, 96—spermatheca.