Ischnopodaproxima ( Tottenham, 1957 ) PA–NIK, 2006

PA – NIK, GRZEGORZ, 2006, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the World species of the genus Ischnopoda Stephens, 1837 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 1179 (1), pp. 1-96 : 91-92

Ischnopodaproxima ( Tottenham, 1957) comb. n. ( Figs. 108–110 )

Amanota proxima Tottenham, 1957: 126 .

Type material. Holotype: ♀: Kenya, Ruiru , 22.VI.1954, V. F. Eastop ( BMNH) . Paratypes: ♂ and 2♀♀: same data as the holotype ( BMNH) .

Redescription. Body. Length 2.5–2.7 mm, convex, parallel­sided, glossy; body colour brown, head and tergites 5–7 black, legs red, antennae brown with antennomeres 1 and 11 red.

Head quadrate in outline, convex, broadly and deeply impressed medially in male and without impression in female; eyes large, moderately protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above longer than postocular region; surface of head with isodiametric mesh microsculpture in male and without microsculpture in female; puncturation coarse and dense. Antennae long, clearly increased in width apically, antennomeres 2 and 3 subequal in length, antennomeres 4–5 longer than wide, antennomeres 6–8 as long as wide, antennomeres 9–10 wider than long, antennomere 11 nearly conical.

Pronotum subquadrate, lateral sides concavely narrowed to obtuse hind angles; before base with moderately small transverse impression, broadly and deeply impressed medially in male and narrowly and shallowly in female; surface with fine isodiametric mesh microsculpture in male and without microsculpture in female; puncturation coarse and dense; pubescence at midline directed entirely anteriorly.

Elytra transverse, at suture as long as pronotum at midline; surface without microsculpture; puncturation relatively coarse and moderately dense, slightly finer than that on pronotum.

Abdomen parallel­sided, bases of tergites 3–5 each with deep transverse impression, impressions coarsely and densely punctuate, tergal puncturation fine and moderately dense; surface without microsculpture.

Male. Aedeagus as in Figs. 108–109 .

Female. Spermatheca as in Fig. 110 .

Remarks. See under I. metallica .

Distribution. The species is known only from one locality in Kenya.

Figures

FIGURES 108–110. Ischnopoda proxima (Tottenham): 108—aedeagus in lateral view, 109— aedeagus in ventral view, 110—spermatheca.