Oedichirus sindicus, Rougemont, 2018

Rougemont, Guillaume de, 2018, New oriental Oedichirus (Staphylinidae, Paederinae, Pinophilini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 461-536 : 502

Oedichirus sindicus nov.sp.

(Figs 21)

Material studied: ♀ Holotype: C.I.E. COLL NO. 16954 / on light Malir City 8.10.59 coll. N-SHAFI / Col. 95-59 / Pres by Com. Inst. Ent. BM 1960-2 / Oedichirus sp. R. D. POPE det. 1990 / standing as Oedichirus rufotestaceus / HOLOTYPE Oedichirus sindicus Des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [ NHML]; 1♂ paratype: [Ibid., but without Pope’s determination label] / PARATYPE Oedichirus sindicus Des. 2016 G. de Rougemont [ NHML]; 1♀ paratype: [Ibid., but " Oedichirus rufotestaceus Bnh. R. D. POPE det. 1990"] / PARATYPE: Oedichirus sindicus Des. 2015 G. de Rougemont [ CRO].

Description: length: 7 mm; length of fore-body: 3.4; length of head: 0.85; breadth of head: 1.4; length of antenna: 1.9; length of pronotum: 1.3; breadth of pronotum: 1.02; length of elytron: 1.5; breadth of elytra: 1.4. Fore-body and abdominal segments III-V rufo-testaceous, segments VI-IX black; palpi, antennae and legs uniformly testaceous.

Fore-body and abdominal segments III-V rufo-testaceous, segments VI-IX black, appendages testaceous. Dorsal surfaces devoid of microsculpture except on anterior margins of abdominal tergites. Pubescence sparse, short, semi-erect or decumbent. Habitus: Fig. 21h.

Head strongly transverse; eyes large and protuberant, the sides of head retracted in a slight curve directly to neck, with no angles; post-ocular border carinate, without a groove or punctures, and not forming and angle or tooth; vertex with a single large puncture at centre flanked on each sided by to columns of two punctures each, these punctures equidistant from centre and margins of eyes; occipital area with two transverse arcuate rows of six punctures each. Pronotum sparsely and irregularly punctate leaving large irregular impunctate areas; lateral margins not bordered. Fully winged, elytra ample, with prominent humeral angles, broadest behind middle; puncturation fairly homogeneous; interstices mostly wider than diameter of punctures. Puncturation of abdominal segments arranged in discrete transverse rows.

Male: abdominal sternites unmodified; aedoeagus: Figs 21arl, av.

Female: sternite IX: Fig. 21vp, the vulvar plate displaced to left of sternite, the sclerite behind it strongly microsculptate.

O. sindicus nov.sp. has the same general colour pattern as O. rufotestaceus BERNHAUER and O. depravatus ASSING, but O. sindicus is a macropterous species with therefore a quite different facies.

Malir City is a suburb of Karachi, Sind, Pakistan.