Obesoconnus guyanensis, sp. n.
Creators: name: Jałoszyński, Paweł
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Obesoconnus
Obesoconnus guyanensis

description: Obesoconnus guyanensis sp. n.
(Figs. 1, 3–13, 16–17, 20)
Type material. Holotype: French Guyana: ♂, two labels: “Guyane française / Cabarson / Ile de Cayenne / N. Degallier XI-78 ” [white, printed and handwritten in black ink]; “ OBESOCONNUS / guyanensis m. / det. P. Jałoszyński ’14 / HOLOTYPUS” [red, printed] (MHNG). Paratype: ♂ (disarticulated), same data as holotype, except for yellow “ paratypus ” label (cPJ).
Diagnosis. Male: frons between eyes nearly as broad as 1/3 HW; pronotal median antebasal pit small but distinct; elytral apices unmodified; aedeagus in ventral view strongly narrowing from middle to apex, with apices of parameres not reaching apical margin of median lobe (Figs. 16–17). Diagnostic characters of females unknown.
Description. Body of male (Fig. 1) strongly convex, dark brown, covered with silverish vestiture; BL 1.01 mm.
Head (Figs. 1, 3–4) broadest at strikingly large, strongly convex but moderately coarsely faceted eyes, HL 0.18 mm, HW 0.25 mm; vertex and frons confluent, anterior part of vertex and posterior part of frons with sharply marked short median longitudinal groove; frons between eyes nearly as broad as 1/3 HW; supraantennal tubercles indistinct. Punctation on frons and vertex inconspicuous, fine; setae short, sparse and suberect. Antennae slender but short, AnL 0.35 mm, as in Fig. 4.
Pronotum (Fig. 1) semi-oval, broadest near anterior third but barely noticeably narrowing posteriorly; PL 0.26 mm, PW 0.35 mm. Anterior margin strongly and broadly rounded; lateral margins slightly rounded; posterior corners indistinct, strongly obtuse and blunt; posterior margin distinctly arcuate. Pronotum near base with shallow and narrow but distinct transverse groove connecting pair of small and shallow lateral pits, and with small median pit; additionally area between lateral pit and lateral pronotal margin bearing shallow and large subtriangular impression. Punctation on pronotal disc small and shallow but relatively distinct and dense, separated by spaces comparable to puncture diameters; setae sparse, short and suberect.
Elytra (Fig. 1) oval, broadest between middle and anterior third; EL 0.58 mm, EW 0.50 mm, EI 1.15 mm; humeri developed as prominent longitudinal protuberances; elytral apices unmodified, separately rounded. Punctation on elytra dense but superficial, less distinct than those on pronotum; setae short, sparse and suberect. Hind wings well developed.
Legs moderately long and slender, without modifications.
Aedeagus (Figs. 12–13, 16–17) in ventral view strongly narrowing toward base and apex; AeL 0.23 mm; apical projection tapering; orifice at base of parameres located subbasally; apices of parameres not reaching apical margin of median lobe; each paramere with one long apical seta.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Northern part of French Guyana (Fig. 20 a).
Etymology. Locotypical; after the country name Guyana.
description: Published as part of Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2014, Obesoconnus gen. n., a new bizarre Neotropical genus of Cyrtoscydmini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), pp. 481-491 in Zootaxa 3794 (3) on pages 485-487, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/224710