Euconnus (Tetramelus) tavushus MEYBOHM, 2019

Assing, Volker & Schülke, Michael, 2019, The Staphylinidae of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (Coleoptera), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (1), pp. 91-173 : 160-161

Euconnus (Tetramelus) tavushus MEYBOHM spec. nov.

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Type material: Holotype: “ ARMENIA [26a] – ENE Dilijan , Hovk, 1290 m, 40°47'39"N, 45°01'17"E, stream valley, sifted, 3.VII.2017, V. Assing / Euc. (Tetramelu s) tavushus m. Meybohm 2018 det. / Holotypus ” (cMey) . Paratypes: 2: same data as holotype (cMey); 7,10: “ ARMENIA [17-26a] – ENE Dilijan , Hovk, 1290 m, 40°47'39"N, 45°01'17"E, moist litter near stream sifted, 3.VII.2017 Schülke” (cSch) .

Etymology: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from Tavush, the name of the province where the type locality is situated.

Description: External characters as in E. longilaminatus , except as follows:

Body length 1.40–1.45 mm () and 1.41–1.50 mm ().

Head approximately 0.24 mm broad, 1.1 times as long as broad. Eyes slightly projecting from lateral contours of head.

Male antenna 0.78 mm long on average, 0.92 times as long as elytron, club 0.9 times as long as combined length of antennomeres II–VII; female antenna 0.74 mm long on average, 0.86 times as long as elytron, club 0.9 times as long as combined length of antennomeres II–VII; antennomeres III, IV and VI of equal length, V longer than IV, VII 1.5 times as long as broad.

Pronotum 1.2 times as broad as head and 1.1 times as long as broad; base with five pits, the internal ones connected by a shallow impression and separated from each other by approximately half their diameter.

Elytra on average 0.55 mm () or 0.59 mm () broad, in lateral and in dorsal view moderately convex.

Aedeagus shaped as in Fig. 58 .

Comparative notes: See section on E. karabakhus .

Distribution and natural history: See section on

E. karabakhus .

Figures

Figs 57–65:Euconnus longilaminatus(57), E. tavushus (58), E. karabakhus (59), Neuraphes gomarantsus (60–62), andN. syunikus