Tachyusa turcica Pa, 2006

Pa ṡnik, Grzegorz, 2006, A revision of the World species of the genus Tachyusa Erichson, 1837 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 1146, pp. 1-152 : 83-84

Tachyusa turcica Pa ś nik, sp. n. ( Figs. 79–80)

Type material. Holotype: ♂: Turkey, distr. Alanya , 15 km W Turkler, Flussaue, 5.IV.1996, A. Kopetz ( NMEG) . Paratypes: ♂: same data as the holotype ( NMEG) ; ♂: Turkey, distr. Alanya, 15 km W Turkler, Flussaue , 4.IV.1996, M. Hartmann ( ISEA) ; ♂: Turkey, Antalya, Manavgat­Side Coast , 9–21.III.1997, H. Winkelmann ( MSPC) ; ♂: Turkey, Antalya, Manavgat­Side Coast , 9–21.III.1997, H. Winkelmann ( ISEA) .

Description. Body. Length 2.8–3.0 mm, convex, parallel­sided, glossy; body colour black, pronotum dark brown; tergites 3–4 paler brownish red, legs brown, antennae brown with antennomeres 1–3 red.

Head circular in outline, convex, glossy, narrower than pronotum, widest across eyes; eyes large, moderately protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above subequal to that of postocular region; surface of head without microsculpture; puncturation fine and moderately dense; pubescence short and moderately dense, directed inward. Antennae short, clearly increasing in width apically, antennomere 3 shorter than 2, antennomeres 4–8 longer than wide, antennomeres 9–10 quadrate, antennomere 11 nearly conical.

Pronotum trapezoid in outline, convex, glossy, widest in apical third, lateral sides rounded in front, gradually narrowed in straight line to obtuse hind angles; before base with small and shallow transverse impression; moderately broadly and shallowly impressed medially, surface lacking microsculpture; puncturation fine, dense and asperate; pubescence at midline directed posteriorly.

Elytra as long as wide, slightly wider than pronotum, lateral sides arcuate, at suture as long as pronotal length at midline; surface lacking microsculpture; puncturation fine, dense and asperate.

Abdomen parallel­sided, bases of tergites 3–5 each with deep transverse impression, impressions with 7–8 longitudinal ridges, tergal puncturation fine and relatively sparse, punctures small and weakly visible, surface without microsculpture; pubescence moderately long and moderately dense, semirecumbent.

Male. Aedeagus as in Figs. 79–80.

Female unknown.

Remarks. See under Tachyusa loebli .

Etymology. The name turcica refers to the type locality.

Distribution. The new species is known so far only from Turkey.