Neolindus napo Guzman, Tokareva & Zyla 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Guzman, Yoan Camilo
name: Tokareva, Alexandra
name: Koszela, Katarzyna
name: Żyła, Dagmara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Neolindus
Neolindus napo

description: Neolindus napo Guzman, Tokareva & Żyła sp. nov.
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Fig. 10; Supp. file 2
Diagnosis
Similar to N. apiculus and N. campbelli in the shape of the posterior margin of sternite VIII and tergite VIII. However, N. napo Guzman, Tokareva & Żyła sp. nov. differs from these species by the different structure of apical sclerites of aedeagus, especially, by much larger bifid protruding APS (Herman 1991: figs 170, 174; Fig. 10F–G).
Etymology
The epithet ‘napo’ is derived from the toponym of the type locality near the Napo River basin in Ecuador. A noun in apposition.
Type material
Holotype ECUADOR • ♂; “ Neolindus napo Guzman, Tokareva & Żyła 2024 HOLOTYPE [red label] \\ ECUADOR: Sucumbíos, Sacha Lodge; 0.5° S, 76.5° W; 270 m [m a.s.l.]; 13–25 Jul 1994; Hibbs Leg.; ex: malaise \\ SM0019856 KUNHM-ENT [barcode]”; KUNHM-ENT.
Paratypes ECUADOR • 1 ♂; “ Neolindus napo Guzman, Tokareva & Żyła 2024 PARATYPE [yellow label] \\ same data as for holotype \\ SM0024346 KUNHM-ENT [barcode] \\ Neolindus spp. Det. J.S. Ashe 1996”; KUNHM-ENT.
SURINAME • 1 ♂; “ Neolindus napo Guzman, Tokareva & Żyła 2024 PARATYPE [yellow label] \\ Saramacca, West Suriname Road, 178 km WSW, Zaderij Airport; 25 m; 4°59’6’’N, 56°18’48’’W; 12–14 Jun 1999; Z. H. Falin, B. DeDijin Leg.; SUR1F99 073; ex: flight intercept trap \\ SM0175295 KUNHM-ENT [barcode]”; KUNHM-ENT.
Description
MEASUREMENTS. BL (5.67), H (0.3, 0.64), A (1.73), A1 (0.24, 0.07), A2 (0.1, 0.06), A3 (0.13, 0.06), A4 (0.09, 0.06), A5 (0.08, 0.06), A6 (0.63, 0.09), A7 (0.09, 0.07), A8 (0.09, 0.07), A9 (0.08, 0.06), A10 (0.08, 0.06), A11 (0.11, 0.07), NKW (0.30), GL (0.2), P (0.74, 0.81), E (1.08, 0.84), PC (0.44, 0.21), PF (0.54, 0.24), PT (0.27, 0.11), MSC (0.38, 0.22), MSF (0.68, 0.18), MST (0.54, 0.07), MTC (0.39, 0.24), MTF (0.54, 0.2), MTT (0.56, 0.08).
COLOURATION. Head and pronotum brown; legs light brown; abdomen brown.
HEAD. Head capsule wider than long; anterior margin sinuate, dorsoventrally deflexed, slightly elevated; posterior margin rounded, with emargination in front of neck; posterior angles rounded; setation with 1 pair of PCS and 1 row of PMS. Epicranium shiny, without micropunctuation, setation with 1 pair of FS and 2 pairs of PFS, without OS. Gena with irregular surface, with depression from mandibular base to middle of eye, setation with 1 OT, IOS, MS, and POS. Sockets of MS and POS umbilicate. Postgena with row of 2 setae in line from eye to gular suture; gular sutures reaching posterior margin of head, joining neck pits; anterior part of gula with 2 setae; posterior margin of head with 2 setae near gular sutures. Neck with foramen magnum occupying ¾ of occiput. Antenna moniliform from antennomere 5, longer than head and pronotum combined (Fig. 10A); antennomeres longer than wide, antennomeres 3–11 with tomentose pubescence; antennomere 1 shorter than antennomeres 2 and 3 combined, antennomere 3 longer than 2. Labrum bilobed, with U-shaped emargination (Fig. 10A; Supp. file 2).
THORAX. Pronotum slightly wider than long, with umbilicate micropunctures, 2 paramedial and 2 lateral rows of setae. Prosternum with superior marginal line parallel to anterior margin. Metasternal intercoxal process with 1 pair of acute processes. Elytron longer than wide, surface of elytra with moderately dense umbilicate punctures in 8–9 longitudinal rows (Fig. 10A; Supp. file 2).
LEGS. Protibia with 4 well-developed combs of setae; apical comb longitudinal, composed of widely separated, thick setae; mesotibial apical ctenidium on both sides, inner longer than outer; mesotarsomere 1 longer than 2, metatarsomeres 3 and 4 as long as 2, mesotarsomere 5 longer than 1; inner ctenidium of metatibia longer than outer; metatarsomere 1 longer than 2, metatarsomeres 2, 3 and 4 equal, metatarsomere 5 as long as metatarsomere 1.
ABDOMEN. Male: tergites with low-density randomly distributed micropunctuation. Posterior margin of tergite VII straight (Fig. 10B). Posterior margin of sternite VII sinuate (Fig. 10C). Posterior margin of tergite VIII apically rounded (Fig. 10D). Posterior margin of sternite VIII with midlongitudinal glabrous depression and midpoint U-shaped emargination, 1/5 of segment length, lateral angles rounded (Fig. 10E). Posterior margin of tergite IX with midlongitudinal deep emargination in ¾ of segment length; aedeagus, in parameral view, median lobe widest at middle, with pair of oval invaginations on sides from basal foramen to apex of lobe, apex of median lobe with 2 flattened processes. pPMS of complex form, with 2 pairs of acute triangular arms protruding towards parameral side. pLS longer than pPMS and APS, fused into plate on parameral side, with 2 acute flat triangular elongate arms bent towards parameral side. APS flat, with 2 long arms with rounded tips aligned with pLS (Fig. 10F–I). Female: unknown.
Distribution
This species is known from the type locality in Ecuador (Sucumbíos, Shushufindi), and Suriname (Sipaliwini, Kabalebo). It was collected at low altitudes between 25 to 270 m a.s.l. using Malaise and flight interception traps.
description: Published as part of Guzman, Yoan Camilo, Tokareva, Alexandra, Koszela, Katarzyna & Żyła, Dagmara, 2024, Twenty-one new species of the Neotropical rove beetle genus Neolindus Scheerpeltz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae), pp. 1-76 in European Journal of Taxonomy 942 on pages 31-32, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.942.2581, http://zenodo.org/record/12550288