Pelioptera alticola, 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 : 1339-1340

Pelioptera alticola nov.sp. ( Figs 32-34 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype, D. O. Afrika, Kilimandscharo, ca. 2500-3000 m, addome Bismarokhüng oberhalb Marangu , S von Mawensi Hochweiden, II.1912, leg. Chr. Schröder ( MNHUB).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 2.3 mm. Body very shiny and reddish-brown, head and free abdominal tergites four and five brown, antennae reddish-brown with the two basal antennomeres reddish, legs yellowish-red. Fore-body devoid of reticulation, abdomen with transverse and evident reticulation. Puncturation of the head evident, but absent on the longitudinal median band. Puncturation of the pronotum very superficial. Granulation of elytra and abdomen evident. Elytra obliquely depressed. Aedeagus Figs 33-34.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The aedeagus of the new species has characters similar to those of the aedeagus of P. consors PACE 1986 from Kibosho. The ventral preapical profile of the aedeagus of the new species is bisinuate, that of P. consors is arched. The internal stylet of the aedeagus of the new species […], in P. consors is turned into short and stumpy genital piece. The eyes of the new species are as long as the postocular region, in dorsal view, those of P. consors are much reduced. The elytra of the new species are longer than the pronotum, those of P. consors are as long as the pronotum.

E t y m o l o g y: The name of the new species means "Inhabitant of the high places."

Figures

Figs 32-36: Habitus, aedeagus in lateral and ventral views, spermatheca. (32-34) Pelioptera alticola nov.sp.; (35-36) Brachysipalia errans nov.sp. Habitus scale bar Fig. 32: 2.3 mm; Fig. 35: 2.2 mm, other scale bars: 0.1 mm.