Afrus spegazzinii Bernhauer 1915, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Janák, Jiří
name: Bordoni, Arnaldo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Afrus
Afrus spegazzinii

description: Afrus spegazzinii (Bernhauer, 1915), comb. nov.
(Figs. 2, 5–15)
Thyreocephalus spegazzinii Bernhauer, 1915a: 299; Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1317; Coiffait, 1968: 156; Herman, 2001: 3767.
Type locality. Senegal, Dakar.
Type material examined. Lectotype (by present designation) ♂: SENEGAL: “ Senegal Dakkar, XII.913 Spegazzini”, “ Spegazzinii, Brnh. Typus ” (FMNH). The specimen is chosen as lectotype and the label: “ Lectotypus Thyreocephalus spegazzinii Bh., Bordoni & Janák des. 2012” was attached to this specimen. Paralectotype ♂: SENEGAL: “Dakkar, Senegal, XII.913 Spegazzini”, “ Spegazzinii, Brnh. Cotypus”(FMNH). The specimen is designated as paralectotype. The label: “ Paralectotypus Thyreocephalus spegazzinii Bh., Bordoni & Janák des. 2012” was attached to this specimen. Both specimens have the determination label “ Afrus spegazzinii (Bh.), Janák & Bordoni det. 2014”.
Additional material examined. ANGOLA: 1 spec.: Unterer Umba, Methner (MFNB). BURUNDI: 2 spec.: plaine de la Ruzizi, 17.ii.1966, N'Dani S. (MRAC). CAMEROON: 1 spec.: Metet, A. I. Good C. M. Acc. 6641 (NMPC); 1 spec.: Joko, Heyne (MFNB). DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: 1 ♂: Libenge, 8.i.1948, R. Cremer & M. Neuman (IRSNB). GAMBIA: 10 spec.: Bathurst [= Banjul], i.68, Palm (ZML, JJRC); 11 spec.: Bakau, 6–26.xi.1984, T. Palm (ZML, JJRC); 1 spec.: oil palm and mangrove veg. close to the beach about 5 km SSW Gunjur, 18.45N, 20.30W, Lund Univ. Syst. Dept. Sweden-Gambia/ Senegal, Nov. 1977, 13.xi.1977 Cederholm-Danielsson-Hammarstedt-Hedquist-Samuelsson (ZML). GHANA: 1 spec.: Northern Prov., Banda- Nkwanta, 150 m, 8.22N, 2.08W, 10.viii.1965, S. Endrödy-Younga (HNHM). KENYA: 3 spec.: Victoria Nyanza, Arcipelago di Sesse, Bogala, 1908, E. Bayon (MCSNG, ABFI); 1 spec.: Malindi, 30.ix.1992, L. Bartolozzi (MZUF); 3 spec.: Lamu, Manda Island, 20.ix–2.x.1976, N. Sanfilippo (MCSNG, ABFI); 1 spec.: Kitale env., Kapenguria, 16.xii.1995, Smrz (NHMW); 1 spec.: Muhoroni, Welks (TMSA). TANZANIA: 1 spec.: Morogoro Prov., Doma, 06°56'35''S, 37°16'05''E, 21.vii.2004, L. Bartolozzi & A. Sforzi (MZUF). SUDAN: 1 spec.: Shambat, x.1966, P. Štys (JJRC).
Cited material (not examined). GABON: Makokou; SENEGAL: Thiès (Coiffait, 1968).
Redescription. Body length 6.5-7 mm; length from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra: 3.5– 3.7 mm. Head black, pronotum and abdomen reddish brown, elytra light yellow, light brown around scutellum, scutellum, antennae and legs light brown (Fig. 2). Labrum lobate, as in Fig. 10. Head and pronotum with micropunctation. Head and pronotum and related punctation as in Figs. 5, 7, 9. Two postocular punctures situated in slightly elongate fossa. Elytra semimembranous, longer and wider than pronotum, with marked humeral angles. Surface with fine and dense punctation, arranged in numerous series, among which are setiferous series near suture, and median and lateral series. Abdomen shiny with traces of transverse micro-striation and fine, dense punctation, provided by long pubescence.
Male. Tergite 10 and sternite 9 of male genital segment as in Figs. 11, 12. Aedeagus (Fig. 13) relatively large, 1.25 mm long; median lobe protruding, with rounded apex; internal sac narrow, folded on itself, covered with evident scales; parameres short.
Differential diagnosis. Afrus spegazzinii differs from A. collarti in the shorter impression with postocular setiferous punctures behind the eyes, yellowish elytra, smaller body size and apically narrowed median lobe of the aedeagus.
Distribution. The species is distributed in West, Central, East and Southern (Angola) Africa (Fig. 8).
description: Published as part of Janák, Jiří & Bordoni, Arnaldo, 2015, Revision of the genus Thyreocephalus and description of Afrus gen. nov. of Africa south of the Sahara (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 4038 (1) on pages 10-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4038.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289876