Sternotropa brisbanensis, Pace, 2015

Pace, Roberto, 2015, New genera and new species of Aleocharinae from Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2), pp. 327-339 : 329

Sternotropa brisbanensis spec. nov.

( Figs 4 , 22–23 )

Type material: Holotype , Australia, Queensland, Brisbane, Browns Plaines, 1.1997, leg. Wachtel ( CSCÜ).

Description: Length 2.2 mm. Body shiny, yellowish-red, posterior third of the elytra and free adominal tergites 4 and 5 brown, antennae brown with three basal antennomeres yellow, the eleventh lost on both antennae, legs yellow. Eyes longer than the postocular region in dorsal view. Second antennomere shorter than the first one, third shorter than the second one, fourth to tenth transverse. Reticulation of the fore-body superficial, defective on abdomen, but strong on the fifth free tergite. Head dotting moderately close and evanescent, that of pronotum evident. Granulation of elytra close and not very salient, that of the fifth free tergite consist of long salient granules. Abdomen with squamose sculpture on the three basal free tergites. Spermatheca as in Fig. 22 , sixth free tergite of the female as in Fig. 23 .

Comparative notes: The new species is similar to S. monteithi PACE, 2003 , coming also from Australia. It is recognizable by the different color of the body and, above all, by the spermatheca without the intermediary portion, present in monteithi .

Etymology: The new species is dedicated to the city of Brisbane.

Figures

Figs 1–12: Habitus. 1: Brachida linsaymontis spec. nov.; 2: Sternotropa linsaymontis spec. nov.; 3: Sternotropa tambourinensis spec. nov.; 4: Sternotropa brisbanensis spec. nov.; 5: Austraepiskia barrinensis gen. nov., spec. nov.; 6: Austracoenonica laminaris gen. nov., spec. nov.; 7: Tryphopsichara australiana gen. nov., spec. nov.;8: Leptostiba tambourinensis spec. nov.; 9: Atheta (Acrotona) wachteli spec. nov.; 10: Atheta (Traumoecia) tambourinensis spec. nov.; 11: Gastropaga brisbanensis spec. nov.; 12: Gastropaga barrinensis spec. nov.

Figs 13–23: Habitus, spermatheca, aedeagus in lateral view, sixth free urotergite of the male (20) and female (23). 13: Pelioptera barrinensis spec. nov.; 14: Mimacrotona bowravillensis spec. nov.; 15: Apimela carnavonensis spec. nov.; 16: Apimela queenslandica spec. nov.; 17: Pseudoplandria bowravillensis spec. nov.; 18: Brachida linsaymontis spec. nov.; 19–20: Sternotropa linsaymontis spec. nov.; 21: Sternotropa tambourinensis spec. nov.; 22–23: Sternotropa brisbanensis spec. nov.