Paraneseuthia angustifurculata Jałoszyński, 2013, sp. n.
Creators: name: Jałoszyński, Paweł
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Paraneseuthia
Paraneseuthia angustifurculata

description: Paraneseuthia angustifurculata sp. n.
(Figs. 3, 4, 9–10)
Type material. Holotype: AUSTRALIA (QUEENSLAND): ♂, three labels: " 11.45S 142.35E QLD / Heathlands 26Jan. - / 29Feb. 1992 P.Feehney / MALAISE #2 dump / open forest" [white, printed], "Aust. Nat. / Ins. Coll." [green, printed], " PARANESEUTHIA / angustifurculata m. / det. P. Jałoszyński, '13 / HOLOTYPUS " [red, printed] (ANIC).
Diagnosis. Aedeagus in ventral view strongly narrowing from middle to apex; with short asetose lateral subapical lobes; with long and slender lateral apical projections with narrow distal parts, each bearing submedian seta.
Description. BL 0.78 mm. Body of male (Fig. 3) moderately convex, dark brown, covered with vestiture slightly lighter than cuticle.
Head broad in relation to pronotum (PW/HW 1.33), broadest across the large and strongly convex eyes, HL 0.13 mm, HW 0.19 mm; vertex weakly convex; frons flattened and with a pair of shallow but distinct circular pits between eyes; supraantennal tubercles indistinct. Punctures on vertex and frons inconspicuous, fine and sparse; setae sparse and short, suberect. Antennae slender, AnL 0.30 mm, antennomeres I–II elongate, III–V as long as broad, VI–VIII slightly transverse, IX–X strongly transverse; XI about as long as IX–X together.
Pronotum semi-oval, broadest near base, barely noticeably broader than long; PL 0.23 mm, PW 0.25 mm; anterior margin weakly and evenly rounded; lateral margins strongly rounded in anterior half and weakly rounded in posterior third; posterior pronotal corners distinctly obtuse and blunt; posterior margin distinctly arcuate with short and shallow emargination in front of mesoscutellum; base with shallow but distinct transverse impression connected at each side with a distinct and nearly circular sublateral pit, lateral pits distinct and elongate, located anterolaterally in relation to sublateral pits. Punctures on pronotal disc fine and sparse; setae sparse but relatively long, suberect.
Elytra oval, broadest near middle; EL 0.43 mm, EW 0.34 mm, EI 1.26; humeral calli prominent, elongate. Punctures on elytral disc much more distinct than those on pronotum, small and shallow but obvious, separated by spaces subequal to puncture diameters; setae similar to those on pronotum, sparse, long and suberect. Hind wings well developed.
Legs moderately long and slender, unmodified.
Aedeagus (Figs. 9–10) elongate; AeL 0.16 mm; in ventral view median lobe slightly asymmetrical in basal part and strongly narrowing distally; ventral membranous area (Fig. 9; vma) small, circular and located at base; lateral subapical lobes (Fig. 9; lsl) present, short, without apical setae; lateral apical projections (Fig. 9; lap) present, symmetrical, flexible, slender and recurved, each with long seta located on external margin of submedian part; assemblage of median apical projections (Fig. 9; map) nearly symmetrical, composed of lateral pair of elongate sclerites and median copulatory piece; parameres slender, each with very long apical and very short subapical seta.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Australia, Far North Queensland (Cape York) (Fig. 4 c).
Etymology. The name angustifurculata refers to the slender lateral apical lobes of the aedeagus, after Latin angustus (narrow) and furcula (forks).
Remarks. See Remarks for P. dilatifurculata.
description: Published as part of Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2013, Three new species of Paraneseuthia Franz from Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), pp. 566-572 in Zootaxa 3702 (6) on page 570, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3702.6.4, http://zenodo.org/record/220307