Venezolanoconnus andinus Franz
Creators: name: Jałoszyński, Paweł
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Venezolanoconnus
Venezolanoconnus andinus

description: Venezolanoconnus andinus Franz
(Figs. 59–61, 65–66, 68–70)
Venezolanoconnus andinus Franz, 1988: 81; Fig. 25.
Material studied. Holotype: 3: four labels: "Bosque de la Carbonera / 2000 m, Umg. Merida / Venezuela, lg. Franz"" with "SA273" on the reverse side [white, printed; reverse handwritten], " Venezolanoconnus / andinus m. / det. H. Franz" [white, handwritten and printed], "3" [white, printed], " Holotypus " [red, handwritten] (NHMW).
Diagnosis. This species can be identified on the basis of the pronotum only slightly broader than long and strongly narrowing anterad.
Redescription. Body of male (Fig. 59) strongly convex, elongate but moderately slender, with moderately long appendages, BL 1.58 mm; glossy, uniformly light brown with slightly lighter palps; vestiture slightly lighter than cuticle.
Head (Figs. 60–61, 66) rhomboidal in shape, broadest at eyes, HL 0.25 mm, HW 0.35 mm; occipital constriction distinctly narrower than half HL; tempora much shorter than eyes, strongly convergent caudad; vertex strongly transverse, convex; frons confluent with vertex, slightly convex, subtrapezoidal and steeply, abruptly declining towards strongly transverse clypeus; supraantennal tubercles barely marked; eyes large and strongly convex, kidney-shaped and transverse in relation to the long axis of the head, each composed of ca. 50 small and smooth ommatidia. Dorsal punctures on head fine and sparse, inconspicuous; setae long, moderately dense, erect, those on vertex and tempora directed caudad. Antennae (Fig. 59) slender, gradually thickening towards apices, AnL 0.63 mm; antennomeres I–II elongate; III–V each about as long as broad; VI–X each slightly transverse; XI 1.6× as long as broad, nearly symmetrical, with blunt subconical apex.
Pronotum (Fig. 59) in dorsal view approximately subtrapezoidal, broadest in posterior third, PL 0.40 mm, PW 0.45 mm; anterior margin short and slightly arcuate; lateral margins strongly rounded, especially in posterior third, so that hind pronotal corners are not marked and sides form a regular arch with rounded posterior pronotal margin; base of pronotum without foveae. Punctures on pronotal disc very fine, inconspicuous; setae long, moderately dense and strongly erect, those on sides of pronotum bristle-like, distinctly thicker than those in middle.
Elytra (Fig. 59) broadly oval and much more convex than pronotum, broadest distinctly behind middle, EL 0.93 mm, EW 0.78 mm, EI 1.19; base of elytra distinctly arcuate; humeral calli prominent, each sharply delimited mesally by subhumeral line as long as 0.4× EL; elytral apices separately rounded. Punctures on elytral disc more distinct and denser than those on pronotum but only superficial and with diffused margins; setae moderately long, moderately sparse and suberect, about as thin as those on vertex and distinctly thinner than those on sides of pronotum. Hind wings well-developed, twice as long as elytra.
Legs (Fig. 59) moderately long and slender; all tibiae straight.
Aedeagus (Figs. 68–70) moderately stout, AeL 0.15 mm, with indistinctly delimited, subtriangular apical part (possibly slightly distorted during the previous preparation in the only known male); internal structures strongly asymmetrical, with long and curved sclerite projecting apically; parameres very broad, with subapical groups of several setae.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Western Venezuela, Mérida State.
description: Published as part of Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2012, Taxonomy of ' Euconnus complex'. Part I. Morphology of Euconnus s. str. and revision of Euconnomorphus Franz and Venezolanoconnus Franz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), pp. 55-82 in Zootaxa 3555 on page 78, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282872