Brachida linsaymontis, 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 : 328

Brachida linsaymontis spec. nov.

( Figs 1 , 18 )

Type material: Holotype , Australia, Queensland, NSW Border, Mt. Linsay , 22.IV.1997, leg. Wachtel ( CSCÜ).

Description: Length 3.1 mm. Body shiny, reddish, antennae brown with the four basal antennomeres yellowish-red and eleventh yellow, legs yellowish-red. Eyes longer than the postocular region in dorsal view. Second antennomere shorter than the first one, third shorter than the second one, fourth longer than wide, fifth to eighth as long as wide. Body reticulation absent. Head and pronotum dotting close, delicate and superficial, that of elytra close and very evanescent, that of the abdomen evident and close, more impressed on the free tergites 3 and 4, present only on the basal half of tergite 5. Pronotum with two transverse, posterior, median impressions. Fifth free tergite of the female with lateral sulci. Spermatheca as in Fig. 18 .

Comparative notes: This species is similar to B. callicornis PACE, 2003 from Sidney, but the intermediary antennomeres of the new species are as long as wide ( Fig. 1 ), whereas they are transverse in callicornis . Only the eleventh antennomere is yellow in the new species, while in callicornis the tenth and the eleventh ones are yellow. The proximal portion of the spermatheca of the new species is slightly elongate, while in callicornis is very long.

Etymology: The name of the new species means “of Linsay mountain”.

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.