Tachyusa loriai ( Pace, 2000 ) Paṡnik, 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 : 73-74

Tachyusa loriai ( Pace, 2000) , comb. n. ( Figs. 66–67)

Ischnopoda loriai Pace, 2000: 138 .

Type material. Holotype: ♂: N. Guinea, Kapakapa , Mag. Giugno 1891, L. Loria ( MCSN).

Redescription. Body. Length 2.5 mm, convex, parallel­sided, glossy; body colour brown, tergites 5–7 black, legs red, antennae brown.

Head circular in outline; convex, eyes large, strongly protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above longer than postocular region; surface of head without microsculpture; puncturation very fine and moderately dense. Antennae short, moderately increasing in width apically, antennomere 3 shorter than 2, antennomeres 4–7 longer than wide, antennomeres 8–10 quadrate, antennomere 11 nearly conical.

Pronotum quadrate, lateral sides clearly concavely narrowed to obtuse hind angles; before base with deep transverse impression; surface without microsculpture; puncturation very fine, pinprick­like, moderately dense and weakly asperate; pubescence at midline directed posteriorly in apical half and anteriorly in basal half.

Elytra subquadrate, at suture as long as pronotal length at midline; surface lacking microsculpture; puncturation very fine, pinprick­like and moderately dense; posterolateral angles broadly rounded.

Abdomen dilated posteriorly, bases of tergites 3–5 each with deep transverse impression, impressions with 7–8 short longitudinal ridges, tergal puncturation very fine and scattered, punctures very small and scarcely visible, surface without microsculpture.

Male. Aedeagus as in Figs. 66–67.

Female unknown.

Remarks. See under T. lewisiana .

Distribution. Tachyusa loriai is known so far only from Papua New Guinea.