Amaurodera ilamica ASSING, 2005

Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lomechusini from the Palaearctic region, primarily from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2), pp. 243-262 : 259

Amaurodera ilamica ASSING, 2005

( Figs 73–75 )

Material examined: India: West Bengal: 4 exs., Darjeeling District , Algarah–Labha , 1900 m, 11.X.1978, leg. Besuchet & Löbl ( MHNG, cAss) .

Comment: Previously, only the holotype from Ilam District , East Nepal, was known ( ASSING 2005d). The above specimens represent the first record from India. The previously unknown female sexual characters are illustrated in Figs 73–75 .

Figures

Figs 65–75: Amaurodera angularis spec. nov. (65–72) and A. ilamica (73–75): male forebody (65); antenna (66); abdomen (67); male tergite VIII (68); male sternite VIII (69); median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (70–71); spermatheca (72, 75); female tergite VIII (73); female sternite VIII (74). Scale bars: 65–67: 1.0 mm; 68–75: 0.2 mm.