Protoconnus comarapae Franz
Creators: name: Jałoszyński, Paweł
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Protoconnus
Protoconnus comarapae

description: Protoconnus comarapae Franz
(Figs 22, 30–31, 93, 101)
Protoconnus comarapae Franz, 1980: 196, fig. 179a, b.
Type material. Holotype: BOLIVIA (Manuel María Caballero Province): ♂, three labels (Fig. 93): "Nebelwald b. / Comarapa, Peru / lg.H.Franz" with "SA143" on the reverse side and "Peru" overwritten with "Boliv." [white, printed], " Protoconnus / comarapae / m. / det.H.Franz" [white, handwritten and printed], "Typus" [red, handwritten] (NHMW). Paratype: 1 ♂, same data as for holotype, and the standard yellow "Paratypus" label (NHMW).
Revised diagnosis. BL 0.93–0.95 mm; body relatively slender, elytra 1.56–1.64 times as broad as transverse pronotum; frons in male slightly impressed between supraantennal tubercles; vertex unmodified; pronotal base with distinct pits and groove; lateral pronotal carinae distinct in posterior third; humeral carinae rounded; aedeagus in ventral view very slender, nearly gradually narrowing from the broadest site of basal capsule to narrow and pointed apex, parameres in subapical region straight.
Redescription. Body of male (Fig. 22) strongly convex, light brown with slightly darkened elytral suture, setae yellowish; BL 0.93–0.95 mm.
Head broadest at relatively small, moderately convex and coarsely faceted eyes, HL 0.18 mm, HW 0.23 mm; tempora in lateral view as long as about 3/4 of the longest diameter of eye; vertex distinctly convex, posterior margin of vertex demarcated from the 'neck' region by weakly elevated and rounded ridge laterally confluent with evenly rounded tempora; frons indistinctly impressed between prominent supraantennal tubercles. Punctures on frons and vertex inconspicuous; setae short, moderately dense and suberect. Antennae slender, AnL 0.43 mm, less than half as long as body, club distinctly delimited; antennomeres I and II each about twice as long as broad; III–X each transverse, XI slightly longer than X, about 1.1 × as long as broad.
Pronotum slightly transverse, subtrapezoidal, parallel-sided in posterior half; PL 0.25 mm, PW 0.28–0.29 mm.
Anterior margin weakly convex, lateral margins in anterior third strongly rounded, in posterior half straight; lateral carinae distinct in posterior third; transverse antebasal groove and pits distinct. Punctures on pronotal disc inconspicuous; setae sparse, short, suberect.
Elytra much more convex than pronotum, oval, broadest in front of middle; EL 0.50–0.53 mm, EW 0.45 mm, EI 1.11–1.17; humeral carinae indistinct, rounded. Punctures and setae similar to those on pronotum.
Legs moderately long and slender, unmodified.
Aedeagus (Figs 30–31) very slender; AeL 0.23 mm; in ventral view basal capsule about as long as 1/3 of distal region, narrowed distad; distal region laterally confluent with sides of basal capsule, slender, subtriangular, with narrow and pointed apex, in lateral view its distal half distinctly recurved; in lateral view area above parameral bases forming a long subtriangular projection; parameres nearly parallel, each with one long apical and one very short subapical seta.
Female unknown.
Distribution. Central Bolivia (Fig. 101).
Remarks. Protoconnus comarapae is most similar to P. bolivianus; see remarks for the latter species.
description: Published as part of Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2018, Revision of the Neotropical genus Protoconnus Franz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), pp. 41-82 in Zootaxa 4392 (1) on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1194929