Zyras (Camonia) bayeri, Pace, 2012

Pace, R., 2012, New data and new species of Aleocharinae from Tropical Africa in the Natural History Museum of the Humboldt University, Berlin (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2), pp. 1331-1362 : 1344-1345

Zyras (Camonia) bayeri nov.sp. ( Figs 68-69 )

T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype, Afrika, S-Malaŵi, 30 km E Liwonde, 14.III.1991, leg. C. Bayer (MNHUB). Paratypes: 2, same origin (MNHUB).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 6.1 mm. Body shiny and yellowish-red, head reddishbrown with occipital part reddish, abdomen reddish-brown with posterior border of the free abdominal tergites reddish, free tergites three and four brown, pygidium yellowishred, antennae brown with the three basal antennomeres and apex of the eleventh yellowish-red, legs reddish with femora yellowish-red. Body devoid of evident reticulation. Puncturation of the body strong. Disc of the head without puncturation. Spermatheca Fig. 69.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The spermatheca of the new species is similar to that of Z. uhligi PACE 1999 from Namibia. It differs the proximal portion of the spermatheca being longer than that of Z. uhligi and in the base of the free tergites being clearly punctate and not superficially punctate as in Z. uhligi .

E t y m o l o g y: The new species is dedicated to C. Bayer, his collector.

Figures

Figs 65-70: Habitus, aedeagus in lateral and ventral views, spermatheca. (65-67) Zyras (Camonia) malawensis nov.sp.; (68-69) Zyras (Camonia) bayeri nov.sp.; (70) Zyras (Ctenodonia) sericeicollis nov.sp. Habitus scale bar Fig. 65: 7 mm; Fig. 68: 6.1 mm; Fig. 70: 6 mm, other scale bars: 0.1 mm.