Ischnopoda pretiosa Pasnik 2006
- Dataset
- Taxonomy and phylogeny of the World species of the genus Ischnopoda Stephens, 1837 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Staphylinidae
- genus
- Ischnopoda
- species
- Ischnopoda pretiosa
description
Description. Body. Length 3.4 mm, convex, parallelsided, moderately glossy; body colour black; elytra brownish, legs red, antennae black with antennomeres 1 – 3 brown. Head transverse, flattened dorsally, broadly and relatively deeply impressed medially; eyes large, moderately protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above subequal to that of postocular region; surface of head with isodiametric mesh microsculpture; puncturation fine and dense. Antennae short, clearly increased in width apically, antennomere 3 longer than 2, antennomeres 4 – 5 longer than wide, antennomeres 6 – 10 quadrate, antennomere 11 nearly conical. Pronotum transverse, lateral sides concavely narrowed to obtuse hind angles; before base with small and shallow transverse impression; surface lacking microsculpture; puncturation fine and very dense, pubescence at midline directed entirely anteriorly. Elytra transverse, at suture longer than pronotum at midline; surface without microsculpture; puncturation fine and dense. Abdomen parallelsided, bases of tergites 3 – 5 each with deep transverse impression, impressions coarsely and densely punctuate, tergal puncturation fine and moderately dense, surface without microsculpture. Male. Aedeagus as in Figs. 69 – 70. Female unknown.
discussion
Remarks. See under I. pratensis.
distribution
Distribution. The new species is known only from the type locality in Ethiopia.
etymology
Etymology. The name pretiosa refers to the body shape.
materials_examined
Type material. Holotype: ♂: Ethiopia: Kaffa, 38 km SW of Jimma Belleta F., 7200 ft., 1971, under bark & dead leaves (BMNH).
Name
- Homonyms
- Ischnopoda pretiosa Pasnik 2006