taxonID	type	description	language	source
BF6ED22DC38E3E3AED785A582DB9A39A.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. A large Lebistina species, with a narrow dark humeral spot, a dark sutural band and a dark transverse band in the apical half of the yellow colored elytra (Fig. 1). Mentum with a tooth having two slightly discernable tips (Fig. 3).	en	Assmann, Thorsten, Boutaud, Esteve, Drees, Claudia, Marcus, Tamar, Dorothea Nolte,, Starke, Werner, Terlutter, Heinrich, Voeller, Eva, Zumstein, Pascale (2017): Two new Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 species from Kenya and Tanzania (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini). African Invertebrates 58 (1): 9-21, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456
BF6ED22DC38E3E3AED785A582DB9A39A.taxon	description	Description. Body length 9.5 - 13.7 mm; width 4.3 - 6.3 mm. Color: Head red-brown, mandibles and palpi, especially distal segments dark brown to black. 1 st or 1 st to 3 rd antennal segments red-brown, the following ones darker, tip of last segment brighter. Pronotum red-brown, the margins broadly translucent and yellow. Elytra yellow with characteristic dark red-brown and black pattern: Small and narrow, longitudinal humeral spot (as long as 3 elytral intervals wide); sutural band around the scutellum broad (approximately as wide as 3 to 4 elytral intervals on each side), on the disc restricted to the sutural interval, longitudinal strip becomes narrower and finally disappears close to the apex; in the apical half a broad transverse band (about one third of elytral length) from the sutural interval to the 9 th interval; margin and epipleura yellow (Fig. 1). Legs red-brown to brown, without obvious darkening; claws yellow to brown. Last visible abdominal tergite yellow to brown, with in most specimens a dark spot on both sides. Lower side red-brown, without clear darkening, but margins of abdominal sternites sometimes darkened. Head large, 0.80 to 0.86 times as wide as pronotum (ratio PW / HW: 1.18 - 1.30) (Fig. 2). Eyes protruding and hemispheric, more than one third of head width. Clearly punctated, around and between supraorbital setae wrinkled. Neck restricted. Antennae long, a little less than 2 / 3 of total body length; antennomeres 1 to 3 glabrous (excl. the long apical setae); antennomeres 4 to 11 with dense and fairly fine setae except obligatory long apical setae. Labrum about twice as wide as long. Ligula rounded at the tip, bearing some setae; paraglossae united with ligula, membranous, little shorter than ligula, bearing some setae. Mentum in the median part dentate, forming a tooth with two small tips (Fig. 3). Pronotum wider than long (ratio PW / PL: 1.33 - 1.48), widest at approximately the middle (behind insertion of lateral setae) (Fig. 2). Anterior margin only slightly rounded and with a very fine and interrupted marginal line, anterior angles strongly rounded, from there continuously curved laterally until posterior angles, in front of basal setae straight; posterior angles well defined, almost rectangular, slightly obtuse (95 - 105 °), rounded at the tip; median part of the base slightly protruding behind (less than 1 / 10 of PL). Pronotal lateral margin wide, clearly delimited from the disc; at the lateral seta (at the end of the first third of pronotal length) wider than length of antennomere 2, but narrower than length of antennomere 1; at the posterior angles as wide as 1 / 5 of pronotum length. Medial longitudinal impression deep, terminated at anterior and posterior transverse impression. Anterior transverse impression distinct, posterior transverse impression distinct and almost parallel to basal margin, strongly impressed at the inner border of the lateral margin, posterior angles upwards bent. Strongly punctated and punctures often fused to wrinkles. Elytra 1.6 to 1.9 times broader than pronotum, (ratio EL / EW: 1.2 - 1.4), with protruding humeri, widest at the anterior margin of the broad dark transverse band or at its middle in the apical half. Apical margin of each elytron truncate, lateroposterior angle rounded, not projecting; in some individuals, inner third of apical margin sinuate and slightly serrated. Apically, suture rectangular or even prolongated to the apical margin, forming a blunt tip. Striae slightly impressed and punctated; intervals flat, with two to five rows of irregular punctures, as some punctures fused to an irregular pattern. Four setiferous punctures in the third elytral interval. Wings fully developed (macropterous). Legs robust, tarsomeres 1 and 5 elongate, tarsomeres 2 and 3 triangular (females) to rounded (in males), tarsomere 4 at the apical margin deeply incised, all tarsomeres with numerous hairs underneath, tarsomeres 2 to 4 in males also with dense adhesive setae (Fig. 4). Claws pectinate, the number of teeth varies between (7 -) 8 and 10 per claw. Microsculpture consisting of isodiametric (to slightly transverse) meshes, less distinct on head and pronotum, hence integument appears fairly dull. Median lobe of aedeagus elongate (in lateral aspect), slightly sinuose on dorsal surface, somewhat concave on ventral surface, not enlarged to the orificium (Fig. 5); internal sac of aedeagus without strongly sclerotized copulatory pieces, but a characteristic pattern of foldings in apical half of the median lobe. Left paramere oval, right one reduced to a small shaft.	en	Assmann, Thorsten, Boutaud, Esteve, Drees, Claudia, Marcus, Tamar, Dorothea Nolte,, Starke, Werner, Terlutter, Heinrich, Voeller, Eva, Zumstein, Pascale (2017): Two new Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 species from Kenya and Tanzania (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini). African Invertebrates 58 (1): 9-21, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456
BF6ED22DC38E3E3AED785A582DB9A39A.taxon	etymology	Etymology. It gives us great pleasure to dedicate this new species to our colleague and mentor Heinz-Otto Rehage (Muenster, Germany), the former head of the Biological Station Heiliges Meer (North Rhine-Westphalia), well-known coleopterologist, who collected also in Africa and inspired us to study beetles and their natural history.	en	Assmann, Thorsten, Boutaud, Esteve, Drees, Claudia, Marcus, Tamar, Dorothea Nolte,, Starke, Werner, Terlutter, Heinrich, Voeller, Eva, Zumstein, Pascale (2017): Two new Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 species from Kenya and Tanzania (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini). African Invertebrates 58 (1): 9-21, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456
BF6ED22DC38E3E3AED785A582DB9A39A.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Currently known only from Kenya.	en	Assmann, Thorsten, Boutaud, Esteve, Drees, Claudia, Marcus, Tamar, Dorothea Nolte,, Starke, Werner, Terlutter, Heinrich, Voeller, Eva, Zumstein, Pascale (2017): Two new Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 species from Kenya and Tanzania (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini). African Invertebrates 58 (1): 9-21, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456
539F1C182F386969183587C42D0A8FEF.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. A small Lebistina species, with a complex black pattern on yellow elytra: a slender dark humeral spot longitudinally prolonged on intervals 6 - 8 (rarely this spot can be connected with the dark medial transverse band: Fig. 13), a sutural band stretched on intervals 1 - 4 and two dark transverse bands (as the posterior one can be interrupted in a few individuals) in the apical half on each elytron (Figs 6, 12 - 13). Mentum with two rounded teeth (Fig. 8).	en	Assmann, Thorsten, Boutaud, Esteve, Drees, Claudia, Marcus, Tamar, Dorothea Nolte,, Starke, Werner, Terlutter, Heinrich, Voeller, Eva, Zumstein, Pascale (2017): Two new Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 species from Kenya and Tanzania (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini). African Invertebrates 58 (1): 9-21, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456
539F1C182F386969183587C42D0A8FEF.taxon	description	Description. Body length 7.9 - 10.5 mm; width 4.0 - 4.9 mm. Color: Head red-brown, mandibles and palpi, especially distal parts or segments dark brown to black. Antennae black, sometimes the antennomere 1 and part of the consecutive one red-brown, tip of last segment brighter. Palpi black, last segments on the tip brightened. Pronotum red-brown, the margins broadly translucent and yellow. Elytra yellow with characteristic dark brown to black pattern (Fig. 6): Longitudinal dark humeral spot (as long as 4 elytral intervals wide) at the 6 th and 7 th striae; sutural band around the scutellum broad (as wide as 3 to 4 elytral intervals on each side), at the beginning of the second third of the elytral length restricted to the two inner intervals; two transverse bands, one anterior at the elytral middle, as thick as 2 to 3 inner elytral intervals wide together, and a posterior one in the apical fourth, slightly narrower than the anterior transverse band; in a few individuals, the humeral spot extends posteriorly (on 7 th and 8 th intervals) and fuses with the anterior transverse band; angles of all bands rounded or protruding, rarely reduced (Fig. 12); the entire elytral margin broadly yellow, with exception of the humeral longitudinal spot. Epipleura yellow. Legs dark brown to black, but basal two thirds of tibia red-brown, distal part of onychium brighter, claws yellow to brownish. Last visible abdominal tergite yellow to brown, with a large dark spot on both sides. Lower side red-brown, without clear darkening. Head large, 0.80 - 0.86 times as wide as pronotum (ratio PW / HW: 1.18 - 1.30) (Fig. 7). Eyes protruding and hemispheric, more than one third of head width. Strongly punctated, around and between supraorbital setae wrinkled. Neck slightly restricted. Antennae long, slightly less than two third of total body length; antennomeres 1 to 3 glabrous (excl. the long apical setae); antennomeres 4 to 11 with dense and fairly fine setae except obligatory long apical setae. Labrum about 1.5 as wide as long. Ligula rounded at the tip, bears some setae; paraglossae united with ligula, membranous, little shorter than ligula (Fig. 9). Mentum sinuated, bidentate (Fig. 8). Pronotum wider than long (ratio PW / PL: 1.41 - 1.59) (Fig. 7), widest at about the middle or behind. Anterior margin only slightly rounded and with a fine marginal line, anterior angles strongly rounded, sides in basal half constricted towards posterior margin, straight or slightly concave to the well-defined, almost rectangular, slightly obtuse, rounded at extreme tip (90 - 100 °) posterior angles; median part of the base slightly protruding behind (less than 1 / 10 of PL). Pronotal lateral margin wide, only weakly delimited from the disc; at the lateral seta (at the end of first third of pronotal length) wider than length of antennomere 2, but narrower than length of antennomere 1; at the posterior angles as wide as about 1 / 4 of pronotum length. Medial longitudinal impression moderately deep, terminated at anterior and posterior transverse impression. Anterior transverse impression less distinct; posterior transverse impression less distinct and straight, impressed at the inner border of the lateral margin, posterior angles upwards bent; basal margin slightly convex. Strongly punctated and punctures often fused to wrinkles. Elytra 1.7 to 1.9 times broader than pronotum (ratio EL / EW: 1.1 - 1.3), with protruding humeri, widest behind the middle, about the end of second third. Apical margin truncate, somewhat sinuate, slightly serrated; the lateroposterior angles rounded, not projecting. Apical suture ends in a broad rounding to the apical margin. Striae slightly impressed and punctated; intervals flat, with two to three rows of irregular punctures, which are partly fused to an irregular pattern. Two setiferous punctures in the third elytral interval. Wings fully developed (macropterous). Legs robust, tarsomeres 1 and 5 elongate, tarsomeres 2 and 3 triangular (females) to rounded (in males), tarsomere 4 at the apical margin deeply incised, all tarsomeres with numerous hairs underneath, tarsomeres 2 to 4 in the males also with dense adhesive setae (Fig. 10). Claws pectinate, the number of teeth varies between 7 and 9 per claw. Microsculpture consisting of isodiametric (to slightly transverse) meshes, surface slightly shiny. Median lobe of aedeagus relatively short; the basal part almost parallel, to the orificium curved and broadened, tip rounded and downward bent; internal sac with several bulbi having knobs and a stronger sclerotized area close to the orificium, without strongly sclerotized copulatory pieces (Fig. 11). Left paramere oval, right one reduced to a small shaft.	en	Assmann, Thorsten, Boutaud, Esteve, Drees, Claudia, Marcus, Tamar, Dorothea Nolte,, Starke, Werner, Terlutter, Heinrich, Voeller, Eva, Zumstein, Pascale (2017): Two new Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 species from Kenya and Tanzania (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini). African Invertebrates 58 (1): 9-21, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456
539F1C182F386969183587C42D0A8FEF.taxon	etymology	Etymology. It gives us great pleasure to dedicate this new species to Marianne Peters, our former co-worker in the Institute of Ecology at the Leuphana University Lueneburg. She supported us in many respects, especially with the mounting and preparation of African ground beetles, and provided great assistance work on these beetles.	en	Assmann, Thorsten, Boutaud, Esteve, Drees, Claudia, Marcus, Tamar, Dorothea Nolte,, Starke, Werner, Terlutter, Heinrich, Voeller, Eva, Zumstein, Pascale (2017): Two new Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 species from Kenya and Tanzania (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini). African Invertebrates 58 (1): 9-21, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456
539F1C182F386969183587C42D0A8FEF.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Currently known only from Kenya and Tanzania.	en	Assmann, Thorsten, Boutaud, Esteve, Drees, Claudia, Marcus, Tamar, Dorothea Nolte,, Starke, Werner, Terlutter, Heinrich, Voeller, Eva, Zumstein, Pascale (2017): Two new Lebistina Motschulsky, 1864 species from Kenya and Tanzania (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini). African Invertebrates 58 (1): 9-21, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.58.11456
