Stilicoderus sepikensis n. sp.

Holotype (♂): Papua New Guinea, West Sepik, Vanimo, Denake Range, km 12, 28.–29.X.1992, leg. A. RIEDEL (SMNS) .

P a r a t y p e s: 5 ♂, 2 ♀♀, same data as holotype (5exx. SMNS, 2 exx. CRO) .

Description

Body length 3.7–4 mm. Proportions of holotype: length of head: 54; breadth of head: 58; diameter of eye: 24; length of antenna: 105; length of pronotum: 54; breadth of pronotum: 50; length of elytron: 65; breadth of elytra: 60; metatibia: 55; metatarsus: 35.

Pitchy black, palpi, antennae and legs rufo-testaceous, the femora infuscate.

Male: posterior margin of sternite VIII broadly and shallowly concave. Aedoeagus see Fig. 6.

Differential diagnosis

This is another very small species, distinguished from the two species above and from S. riedeli n. sp. by the less transverse head with more rounded, less pronounced apico-lateral angles and by the dark femora, and from all other species by the aedoeagus.