Lispinus blandus Irmler, 2009, n. sp.
Creators: name: Irmler, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lispinus
Lispinus blandus

description: Lispinus blandus n. sp.
Figs. 2 A–2E, 6P, 6E, 9B
Type material. Holotype: PERU: Madre de Dios: male, Pantiacolla Lodge, 8 km NE Mirador, Alto Madre do Dios River (12°38’23”S, 71°16’23”W), 950 m elevation, 24 OCT 2000, leg. R. Brooks, # PERU 1B00 0 83, collected under bark (SEMC). Paratypes: PERU: 11 females with same data as the holotype (SEMC, UIC).
Diagnosis. The new species resembles L. bolivianus and L. peruanus in the depressions at posterior angles of the pronotum having a matt surface. Lispinus blandus is distinctly larger than L. bolivianus and L. peruanus. The emargination at the posterior angles of the pronotum is similar to that of L. peruanus, but much more indistinct than that of L. bolivianus. Furthermore, the microsculpture of elytra and pronotum of L. bolivianus is denser and the surface is, thus, matter than in L. blandus.
Description. Body length 4.7 mm.
Body c olour black with front margin of clypeus reddish and antennae and legs dark brown.
Head 0.75 mm long, 0.85 mm wide; eyes small and not prominent; temples twice as long as eyes; clypeus smoothly rounded and widely margined, in particular in outer parts; with two supraocular setae, on each side two setae on the front margin of clypeus, one seta on the disc and one seta on the neck; punctation fine and sparse; distance between punctures on average twice as wide as diameter of punctures; clypeus more densely punctate than disc, but the punctation equally fine; on disc, a sparse and fine micro-punctation between coarser punctures and a moderately deep microsculpture longitudinally reticulate; surface slightly shiny.
Antennae thick and stout, slightly longer than head; antennomere 2 1.5 times as long as wide; antennomere 3 conical and not longer than antennomere 2; antennomeres 4 to 7 more or less quadrate; the following antennomeres nearly twice as wide as long.
Pronotum 0.77 mm long, 0.87 mm wide; widest at anterior angles; straightly narrowed to posterior angles; front edge deeply emarginate and, therefore, front angles distinctly prominent; several setae along lateral margin; four of them much longer than the rest; another long seta at front edge near front angles; punctation much coarser and denser than on head; distance between punctures on average as wide as or shorter than diameter of punctures; a fine micro-punctation also present; a narrow midline without punctures; microsculpture deeper than on head, but longitudinally reticulate, too; surface less shiny than head; depressions at posterior angles deep and distinctly margined laterally; with microsculpture denser than on the disc, thus, rendering the depressions dull.
Elytra 1.05 mm long, 0.90 mm wide; punctation slightly finer and sparser than on pronotum, but larger and denser than on head; microsculpture deep and densely longitudinally reticulate; surface distinctly duller than in pronotum and head; with two short indistinct setae on the disc near suture, one in anterior half, one in posterior half.
Abdomen with punctation as dense and deep as on pronotum; microsculpture net-like reticulate; surface as shiny as in head; laterally with long yellow setae on each visible abdominal segment.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin word meaning nice.
description: Published as part of Irmler, Ulrich, 2009, New species and records of the genus Lispinus with a key to the species from Peru (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae), pp. 42-58 in Zootaxa 2263 on page 43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190786