Notolinopsis mbotyianus, Bordoni, 2017

Bordoni, Arnaldo, 2017, New data on the Afrotropical Xantholinini. 1. New species from South Africa in the Janak collection (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 285 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae, Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (2), pp. 1233-1243 : 1236

Notolinopsis mbotyianus nov.sp. ( Figs 7-9 )

E x a m i n e d m a t e r i a l: Holotype 3: RCA: W Cape, Mbotyi Forest, 31.27S, 29.44E, Janak 1-3.XII.2006 (cJ); paratypes: same data, 2♀♀ (cJ), 2♀♀ (cB).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length of body 9.5 mm; from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra: 5 mm. Body shiny, without micro-sculpture, apart the abdomen, at most with traces of transverse micro-striation on head and pronotum. Clypeus concave. Reddish brown with lighter abdomen; antennae and legs brown light. Head sub-quadrangular, a little narrow forward, with feebly rounded sides and largely rounded posterior angles. Eyes small and a little protruding. Surface of head with few, deep, sparse punctation, almost absent on the sides. Pronotum sub-rectangular, narrow, longer and narrower than head, with oblique anterior margins, rounded anterior angles and sinuate sides. Surface with dorsal series of 7-8 punctures and lateral series of 4 median punctures. Elytra sub-rectangular, not dilated posteriad, long, longer and wider than pronotum, with a little rounded sides and very marked humeral angles. Surface with fine, deep, not particularly dense punctation, arranged in numerous series. Abdomen with fine, dense, transverse micro-striation and fine punctation on the sides.

Tergite and sternite of the male genital segment as in Figs 7-8 . Aedeagus ( Fig. 9 ) 1.4 mm long, sub-spherical, with asymmetric, long and very narrow parameres; median lobule of peculiar shape, very large; inner sac half-moon shaped, covered with very dense spinulae so much to appear as a dark mass from which some bigger, distal spines emerge.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet refers to the type locality.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: The species is known only from the type locality.

R e m a r k s: The aedeagus of this species vaguely resemblint to that of N. reticulatus BORDONI, 2016 from Cape Province but the species differs by size, micro-sculpture (polygonal on head in N. reticulatus ), color and peculiar structure of the male genitalia.

B i o n o m i c s: Indigenous forest, litter.

Figures

Figs 7-12: Tergite and sternite of the male genital segment, aedeagus of Notolinopsis mbotyianus nov.sp. (7-9) and Notolinopsis mirabilis nov.sp. (10-12) (scale bar: 0.1 mm).