Tychus grassator Sabella, 2011

Sabella, Giorgio, Brachat, Volker & Kurbatov, Serguei A, 2012, New species of Tychus from Greece and Turkey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (2), pp. 195-214 : 209-211

Tychus grassator Sabella, 2011 Figs 28, 31

MATERIAL EXAMINED: PCVB, 2♀♀; Turkey, Izmir Prov., environs of Kemalpasa, Nif

Daği, 972 m, 38°24’19”N 27°23’32”E; 24.04.2006; H. Meybohm & V. Brachat .

DESCRIPTION: Length 1.45 mm. Winged. Body uniformly reddish brow with antennae and legs yellowish and palpi yellow.

Head slightly longer (0.270 mm) than wide (0.260 mm), frontal rostrum 0.150 mm wide and 0.060 mm long. Eyes with 8 facets. Antennae (Fig. 28) 0.800- 0.820 mm long, club 0.325 mm long; scape distinctly longer than wide; antennomeres II-V distinctly longer than wide; V slightly longer than IV; VI as long as wide, VII longer than wide, VIII distinctly wider than long. Apical segment of maxillary palpi 0.145 mm long and 0.060 mm wide.

Pronotum as long as large (0.325 mm) with small lateral antebasal foveae in shallow impressions.

FIGS 26-28

Antennae of Tychus female. (26) T. sodalicius from Antakya ( Hatay). (27) T. spurius from Sinop. (28) T. grassator from Kemalpasa (Izmir). Scale bar 0.1 mm.

FIGS 29-30

Genital plates of Tychus . (29) T. sodalicius from Antakya ( Hatay). (30) T. spurius from Sinop. Scale bar 0.1 mm.

Elytra wider (0.560 mm) than long (0.410 mm) with humeri not very protruding. Discal fovea joined to discal stria, latter reaching elytral mid-length.

Abdomen with first tergite 0.175 mm long, basal impression extending on more than 1/3 of tergal width.

Genital plate as in Fig. 31.