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Drusilla divergens Pace 2014, nov.sp.

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Drusilla divergens nov.sp. (Figs 38 and 162-163)

T y p e m a t e r i a l Holotype, Sabah, Danum Valley, B.R.L., f.i.t., 14-16.II.2007, G. de Rougemont leg. (CROU). Paratypes: 2, same provenance as the holotype (CROU, MSNV).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 7-7.12 mm. Body shiny, blackish-brown, abdomen reddish, posterior half of the male fourth free abdominal tergite and the whole fourth brown, antennae reddish, legs yellowish-red. Second antennomere shorter than the first, third longer than the second, fourth to tenth longer than wide. Eyes longer than the postocular region in dorsal view. Reticulation of the fore-body evident and fine. Reticulation of the abdomen absent. Puncturation of the head visible, but absent on a narrow longitudinal median band and on frons. Puncturation of the elytra evident and close, that of the abdomen fine. Aedeagus: Figs 162-163.

C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s:Thenewspeciesissimilarto D. foeda PACE, 2008 also from Borneo. It differs in the lenghth/width ratio of the pronotum which is 0.93, whereas in D. foeda it is 1.11, in the antennomeres four to eight which are longer than wide, whereas in D. foeda they are transverse, and in the broad, truncate apex of the aedeagus, which in D. foeda is acute.

E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet of the new species refers from the divergence of the characters of the aedeagus from those of D. foeda PACE.

Notes

Published as part of Pace, R., 2014, Aleocharinae from Sabah (Borneo) collected by Guillaume de Rougemont (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 727-794 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on pages 753-754, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5306753

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pace
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Drusilla
Species
divergens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Drusilla divergens Pace, 2014