Zyras (Camonia) civilis, Pace, 2012

Pace, R., 2012, New data and new species of Aleocharinae from Tropical Africa in the Natural History Museum of the Humboldt University, Berlin (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2), pp. 1331-1362 : 1344

Zyras (Camonia) civilis nov.sp. ( Figs 61-64 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype, O. Afrika, Gomba, lux, leg. Inst. Amani (MNHUB). Paratype: 1, same origin (MNHUB).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 5.5 mm. Head and elytra feebly opaque, pronotum very opaque, abdomen shiny. Antennae not laterally compressed. Reticulation of the head evident, that of pronotum and elytra strong, that of the abdomen fine and clearly visible. Puncturation of the head fine and superficial, that of the pronotum almost indistinct, that of the elytra close and very superficial. Pronotum with weak lateral depression, First free tergite of the male with two wide triangular lobes on the posterior border Fig. 61 . Aedeagus Figs 62-63 , spermatheca Fig. 64.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The "crista apicalis" of the aedeagus push in before is similar to that of the aedeagus of Z. bilobifer PACE 1988 from Guinea-Bissau. The aedeagus of the new species is tri-sinuate on the ventral side, that of Z. bilobifer bisinuate. The fourth antennomere of the new species is longer than wide, that of Z. bilobifer is transverse. The first free tergite of the male has two wide median lobes as in Z. bilobifer , but it is deprived of long lateral appendices, present on the first free urotergite of the male of Z. bilobifer .

E t y m o l o g y: The name of "civil" of the new species is in contrast to the name of "warlike" of the species above described.

Figures

Figs 57-64: Habitus, aedeagus in lateral and ventral views, spermatheca. (57-60) Zyras (Camonia) pugnax nov.sp.; (61-64) Zyras (Camonia) civilis nov.sp. Habitus scale bar Fig. 57: 6 mm; Fig. 61: 5.5 mm, other scale bars: 0.1 mm.