Stenomastigus kochi Leleup

Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2012, Stenomastigus Leleup (Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae): status of subgenus Acanthostigus Leleup and revision of species with elongated male protrochanters, Zootaxa 3153, pp. 39-56 : 53-55

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.279590
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6176638
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scientific name	Stenomastigus kochi Leleup
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Stenomastigus kochi Leleup View in CoL

( Figs. 16 View FIGURES 9 – 16 , 21 View FIGURES 17 – 21 , 33, 34, 56–59, 66, 71)

Stenomastigus (Acanthostigus) kochi Leleup, 1968: 100 View in CoL .

Material studied. Holotype 3 and paratype Ƥ, Republic of South Africa, Natal, Bergville District, Oqalweni Forest ( TMSA).

Revised diagnosis. Male: Body ( Fig. 60 View FIGURES 60 – 61 ) yellowish-testaceous, with slightly darker head and pronotum; protrochanters ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 9 – 16 ) with projecting distal margin forming moderately slender rod slightly broadening apically, projection as long as remaining part of trochanter; profemora ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 17 – 21 ) in lateral view with very deep subapical ventral emargination, curved dorsal margin and pointed, subtriangular ventral tooth located at base of emargination; aedeagus (Figs. 33, 34, 56–45) in abparameral view with weak constriction between basal capsule of median lobe and base of copulatory piece, in left lateral view long paramere with very short, rounded and broad parameral tooth weakly standing out from the silhouette of paramere, apical part of paramere above tooth distinctly broadened. Female ( Fig. 61 View FIGURES 60 – 61 ): body pigmented as in male; elytra with deep basal impression adjacent to pronotal base; in lateral view apex of elytra clearly located above middle of elytral height (indistinguishable from female of S. allaeri , see Remarks for the latter species).

Distribution. Republic of South Africa, Natal.