Micranops hoyoensis (Fagel)

(Figs 20–22, 147)

Geoscopaeus hoyoensis Fagel, 1973: 28, 29.

Micranops hoyoensis (Fagel, 1973); Frisch & Herman 2014: 69.

Type specimen examined: Holotype ♂, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ituri, Mt Hoyo (cave TalaTala), 1.170 m, 7.–15.VII.1955, leg. Vanschuytbroeck (RMCA).

New records: Republic of South Africa: Mpumalanga:Sabi River (Kruger National Park) (24°57'S, 31°42'E), 22.II.1995, leg. Endrödy-Younga (DMNH, MFNB).

Redescription: Macrophthalmous species with palisade fringe of abdominal tergite VII; examined specimens macropterous with elytral sutural length about as long as pronotum and with functionary metathoracic wings. Body color medium brown to dark brown with light brown appendages. Body surface subnitid with very fine, dense, setose punctation. Head about 1.2 times longer than wide, with slightly convex temples and straight to slightly convex posterior margin. Eyes 0.47–0.54 times as long as temples. Nuchal groove 0.27 times as wide as greatest head width. Trichobothrial cavity long guttiform, about twice as long horizontally as vertically, with tapered anterior end connected to dorsoposterior margin of eye. Antenna from slightly elongate pedicellus and antennomere 3 gradually wider toward moderately transverse penultimate antennomeres; antennomere 10 about 0.7–0.8 times, antennomere 11 about 1.4 times as long as wide. Total body length 2.2 mm; forebody length 1.3 mm.

Male: Protarsomeres 1–4 not dilated, about as long as wide.

Abdominal sternite VII without diagnostic characters.

Abdominal sternite VIII with subbasal ridge straight and posterior margin triangularly incised to 0.1 of sternite length; lateral setae moderately long, up to about 0.25 times as long as sternite length (Fig. 147).

Aedeagus with lobe-bearing apical portion occupying about 0.25 of aedeagal length (Fig. 20), in dorsal view long-oval, about 2.5 times as long as wide (Fig. 22); phallobase distally extended beyond base of ventral process and there finely serrate and somewhat curved ventrad (Fig. 20); apical lobes each extended into long, thin spine strongly projecting ventrally and with distodorsad pointing denticle (Fig. 20), in dorsal view with concave lateral margins moderately narrowed distad (Fig. 22). Dorsal lobe with membranous apex narrow convex in lateral view (Fig. 20) but broader convex in dorsal view (Fig. 22). Ventral lobe absent. Ventromedial endophallic lobe short (Fig. 21). Endophallic sclerites as in Fig. 22. Ventral process reaching end of ventral, spiniform extension of apical lobes (Fig. 20); in lateral view, ventral process thin, in basal third with irregular, undulate, dorsal extension, in distal half first bent dorsad, then curved ventrad with straight apical portion (Fig. 20); ventral process in ventral view wide oval, gradually widening toward broadly convex apex, at base about half as wide as, at end as wide as aedeagus at same level (Fig. 21). Dorsodistal opening of phallobase strongly projecting dorsally (Fig. 20), in dorsal view occupying aedeagal width (Fig. 22), not lengthened to form dorsomidlongitudinal split; phallobase therefore completely sclerotized dorsally (Fig. 22) and evenly convex in lateral view (Fig. 20). Postforamen hardly projecting ventrally (Fig. 20). Circoforamen short, not much longer than small median foramen, thus phallobase posterior of circoforamen about four times as long as this (Figs 20, 21). Length of aedeagus 0.41 mm.

Female: Protarsomeres 1–4 not dilated, about as long as wide.

Distribution: Micranops hoyoensis is known from the Congo Basin and South Africa (new country record) and probably widespread in sub-Saharan Africa.