Brachida luciphila, 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 : 1335

Brachida luciphila nov.sp. ( Figs 11-12 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype, D.O. Afrika, Gomba, 1912, lux, leg. Inst. Amani ( MNHUB).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Length 1.8 mm. Body convex and shiny, head and abdomen brown, pronotum and elytra yellowish-red, antennae (with terminal part lost) reddishbrown with the two basal antennomeres yellow, legs yellow. Fore-body devoid of reticulation, abdomen evidently reticulate. Puncturation of the fore-body very superficial. Spermatheca Fig. 12.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The spermatheca of the new species is similar to that of B. nairobiensis PACE 1985 from Kenya. It is distinguished by the distal bulb of the spermatheca being less developed than that of B. nairobiensis . The eyes of the new species are longer than the postocular region, in dorsal view, those of B. nairobienses are shorter than the postocular region, in dorsal view.

E t y m o l o g y: The name of the new species means "lover of the light" because the only sample was collected at light

Figures

Figs 6-12: Habitus, aedeagus in lateral and ventral views, spermatheca, sixth visible tergite of male. (6-10) Tomoxelia problematica nov.sp.; (11-12) Brachida luciphila nov.sp. Habitus scale bar Fig. 6: 3.7 mm; Fig. 11: 1.8 mm, other scale bars: 0.1 mm.