Orphnebius integer Assing 2016, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Orphnebius
Orphnebius integer

description: Orphnebius integer spec. nov.
(Figs 8, 33, 37, 244–250)
Type material: Holotype ♂: “ Laos-N (Oudomxai), 1–9.v.2002, ~ 1100 m, 20°45'N 102°09'E, Oudom Xai (17 km NEE), Vít Kubáň leg. / Holotypus ♂ Orphnebius integer sp. n., det. V. Assing 2015” (NHMB).
Paratype ♂: “ Laos, Louangnamtha pr., 21°09'N 101°19'E, Namtha → Muang Sing, 5–31.v.1997, 900– 1200 m, Vít Kubáň leg.” (cAss).
Etymology: The specific epithet (Latin, adjective: whole, undamaged) alludes to the apically undivided ventral process of the aedeagus.
Description: Body length 4.2–4.6 mm; length of forebody 1.7–1.9 mm. Coloration: forebody black; abdomen red; legs with blackish-brown femora, dark-brown tibiae, and reddish tarsi; antennae blackish with antennomeres II–IV at least partly dark-reddish; maxillary palpi brown to dark-brown with the apical palpomere yellowish.
Head (Fig. 33) of transversely rectangular shape, 1.45–1.48 times as broad as long (length measured from sclerotized portion of clypeus); posterior angles moderately marked; posterior margin truncate; clypeus extensively membranous; dorsal surface nearly impunctate. Eyes large, more than twice as long as postocular region in dorsal view. Antenna (Fig. 8) approximately 1.0 mm long; antennomere I very short, barely as long as the combined length of antennomeres II and III; antennomere IV weakly transverse and flattened; antennomere V much broader than antennomere IV; antennomeres V–X distinctly asymmetric, moderately flattened, and strongly transverse, more than twice as broad as long, and gradually increasing in width; XI nearly as long as the combined length of VIII–X.
Pronotum (Fig. 33) 1.33–1.42 times as broad as long and 1.07–1.13 times as broad as head, moderately convex in cross-section; lateral and posterior margins together nearly forming a semi-circle, posterior angles completely obsolete; disc with a median pair of punctures, otherwise practically impunctate; lateral margins with three long, erect, stout black setae.
Elytra (Fig. 33) approximately 0.75 times as long as pronotum; punctation sparse and fine; pubescence long, fine, pale, and sub-erect. Hind wings fully developed. Mesotibia moderately, smoothly dilated. Metatarsomere I slightly shorter than the combined length of II and III.
Abdomen (Fig. 37): tergites III–VI with a lateral setiferous puncture on either side, VI with four additional punctures at posterior margin; tergite VII with dense nonsetiferous punctures in posterior two-thirds, posterior margin with palisade fringe; tergite VIII (Figs 249–250) with a postero-median pair of long black setae, with three lateral long black setae in posterior portion, and with a lateral cluster of fine setae on either side, posterior margin convex and with eight short teeth; sternite VIII with broadly convex posterior margin.
♂: segments IX–X distinctly modified (O. hauseri type), with dense and long pubescence; median lobe of aedeagus (Figs 244–245) approximately 0.75 mm long; ventral process short, undivided, and apically acute (Fig. 246); paramere (Figs 247–248) approximately 0.6 mm long, with slender condylite.
♀: unknown.
Comparative notes: Orphnebius integer is distinguished from other species of the O. serratus subgroup by the moderately dilated mesotibiae and by the distinctive shapes of the median lobe and the parameres of the aedeagus.
Distribution and natural history: The type specimens were collected in two localities in Oudomxai and Louangnamtha provinces, North Laos, at altitudes between 900 and 1200 m, in the type locality together with O. extensus, O. serratus, and O. septemcuspis.
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2016, On some Lomechusini of the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 13-111 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.66.1.13-111, http://zenodo.org/record/6421171