Ischnopoderona kaszabi ( Pace, 1986 ) Pace, 1986

Paśnik, Grzegorz, 2007, Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the African genus Ischnopoderona (Scheerpeltz, 1974) new status (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 1412, pp. 1-54 : 21-22

Ischnopoderona kaszabi ( Pace, 1986) , comb. n.

( Figs. 28–29 , Map 2)

Amanota kaszabi Pace, 1986: 95 .

Type material. Holotype: ɗ: [ Tanzania]: Africa or., Katona, Inter Mari et Arusha, Amanota kaszabi Pace ( HNHM).

Additional material. Ethiopia: Kaffa, 28 km S of Jimma Belleta Forest, 2000 m, under plants at a stream edge, X.1971, 2 exx ( BMNH and ISEA).

Redescription. Body. Length 2.5 mm, convex, parallel­sided, glossy; body colour reddish­brown; tergites VI–VII black, antennae brown with antennomeres 1–2 red and 10–11 yellowish­red, legs yellow.

Head circular in outline, convex; eyes relatively 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 minute, pinprick­like and moderately dense. Antennae very long, extending to 3/4 of elytra, slightly increasing in width apically, antennomeres 2 and 3 subequal in length, antennomeres 4–10 longer than wide, decreasing in length, antennomere 11 nearly coniform.

Pronotum quadrate, convex, lateral sides sinuately narrowed to obtuse hind angles; before base with small and shallow transverse impression; surface without microsculpture; puncturation in basal 1/2 fine and dense, in anterior 1/2 minute, pinprick­like and sparse; pubescence at midline directed posteriorly in apical 1/4 and anteriorly in basal 3/4.

Elytra subquadrate, at suture shorter than pronotal length at midline; surface without microsculpture; puncturation minute, pinprick­like and relatively sparse.

Abdomen widened posteriorly, bases of tergites III–V each with deep transverse impression, first impression coarsely punctate, second and third impressions smooth, impunctate; tergal puncturation minute, pinprick­like and sparse; surface without microsculpture.

Male. Aedeagus as in Figs. 28–29 .

Female unknown.

Remarks. See remarks under I. micans .

Distribution. Ethiopia, Tanzania (Map 2).

MAP 2. Distribution of Ischnopoderona sp.

Figures

FIGURES 28 – 29. Ischnopoderona kaszabi (Pace): 28 — aedeagus in lateral view, 29 — aedeagus in ventral view.