Austraepiskia barrinensis, 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 : 330

Austraepiskia barrinensis spec. nov.

( Figs 5 , 24–27 )

Type material: Holotype , Australia, Queensland, Atherton TL, Lake Barrine NP, 30.X.1989, leg. H. Heiss ( CSCÜ).

Description: Length 2.2 mm Fore-body opaque, abdomen shiny. Body reddish, external posterior angles of the elytrae and posterior half of the paratergites brown, antennae brown with the two basal antennomeres yellowish-red and eleventh yellow, legs yellowish-red with distal third of the posterior femurs brown. Eyes shorter than the postocular region in dorsal view. Second antennomere as long as the first one, third longer than the second one, fourth to sixth longer than wide, seventh as long as wide, eighth to tenth transverse. Fore-body covered with close and salient granules, with wrinkled aspect, abdomen with granularity delicate and few salient. Spermatheca as in Fig. 24 .

Etymology: The new species name come from Lake Barrine.

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 24–34: Spermatheca, labium with labial palpus, mentum, maxilla with maxillary palpus, aedeagus in lateral and ventral view. 24–27: Austraepiskiabarrinensis gen. nov., spec. nov.;28–32: Austracoenonica laminaris gen. nov., spec. nov.;33–34: Tryphopsichara australiana gen. nov., spec. nov.