Baeocera takizawai Lobl 1984
Creators: name: Ogawa, Ryo
name: Löbl, Ivan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Baeocera
Baeocera takizawai

description: Baeocera takizawai Löbl, 1984
(Figs. 9, 18, 31, 69, 71)
Baeocera takizawai Löbl, 1984b: 190; Löbl, 2003: 62; Löbl, 2012a: 129.
Diagnosis. Antennomere XI well four times as long as III. Elytral punctuation sparse and coarse. Lateral portion of metaventrite sparsely and finely punctuate. Parameres asymmetrical; inner sac with sclerites and fine scale-like and denticulate structures.
Redescription. Body broad-oval, shining. Head, pronotum and elytra light reddish-brown; frons, clypeus, labrum, maxillary palpi, tarsi and antennomeres I–V yellowish-brown; antennomeres VI–XI dark yellowishbrown; tibiae and femora reddish-brown. Head, pronotum and elytra sparsely and finely pubescent.
Head with interocular distance about twice as eye width. Punctuation sparse and fine. Antennomeres I–VI with a few macrosetae, VII–XI covered with some macrosetae; VIII about 2.2 times as long as III; XI about 4.2 times as long as III (Fig. 31).
Pronotum wider than long, lateral keel distinct except near basal angles. Punctuation sparse and fine, as on head. Scutellum almost as long as wide, with exposed apex.
Elytra wider than long, widest at basal fourth, lateral margins gradually narrowed apically, minutely serrate at inner part of posterior margin. Elytral punctuation sparse and coarse. Sutural striae extending outwards along basal margin to form complete basal stria joined to lateral striae.
Propygidium sparsely and coarsely punctuate; pygidium sparsely and coarsely punctuate in basal half, finely punctuate from basal half to apex.
Hypomeron impunctate. Mesoventrite sparsely and finely punctuate, as pronotum. Lateral portion of metaventrite sparsely and finely punctuate. Mesepimeron about third to four times as long as wide. Mesocoxa almost twice as wide as interspace between mesocoxa; mesocoxal area narrow. Metepimeron almost as long as wide. Metacoxa about twice as wide as metacoxal process. Metanepisternum about third as long as wide. Ventrite I and V sparsely and finely punctuate.
Meso- and metafemora with microsculpture, sparsely and coarsely punctuate.
Male. Protarsomeres I–III enlarged. Aedeagus about 0.59 mm long; parameres asymmetrical (Fig. 69); inner sac with sclerites and fine scale-like and denticulate structures (Fig. 71).
Female. not examined
Measurements (n = 1). Length (PL+EL): 1.91 mm; width (PW, EW): 1.09 mm, 1.19 mm. PL/PW: 0.77; EL/ EW: 0.91. HW: 0.45 mm. ID: 0.20 mm.
Approximate ratio of each antennal length (width) as follows (n = 1); 2.2 (1.2): 1.8 (1.0): 1.0 (0.5): 1.3 (0.4): 1.5 (0.6): 1.1 (0.7): 2.2 (1.0): 1.8 (0.9): 2.6 (1.1): 2.6 (1.2): 4.2 (1.1).
Specimens examined. 13, Aira River, Iriomote Is., Okinawa Pref., F.I.T., 28. IV–5. V. 1999, S. Hori leg. (FU).
Distribution. Japan: Ryukyu; China; Taiwan
description: Published as part of Ogawa, Ryo & Löbl, Ivan, 2013, A revision of the genus Baeocera in Japan, with a new genus of the tribe Scaphisomatini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae), pp. 301-326 in Zootaxa 3652 (3) on page 321, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/223565