Lomechusoides poppiusi Jaszay, Hlavac & Banar 2023, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Jászay, Tomáš, Hlaváč, Peter, Baňař, Petr
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Lomechusoides; Lomechusoides poppiusi; Aldan; Bertil; lena river; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/8345400; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8345400

Lomechusoides poppiusi Jászay, Hlaváč & Baňař sp. nov. Figs 30–33 Etymology. The species is named after the collector of the new species, a well-known Finnish entomologist Bertil Robert Poppius, who had been working as a custodian at the Zoological Museum in Helsinki. Type material: HOLOTYPE, ♀: RUSSIA: (p) Batylim /(p) Fl. Lena /(p) B. Poppius /(h) 27 /(h) Z (p) 981/ (h) inflata Zett. Var. (major) (p) determ. Bernh. / (p) http://id.luomus.fi/GAC.26893/ Lomechusoides inflatus (Zetterstedt, 1828), Bernhauer det. / red label (p) HOLOTYPE ♀ Lomechusoides poppiusi sp. nov., det. T. Jászay, P. Hlaváč & P. Baňař det., 2021 (MZHF). PARATYPE, 1♀: RUSSIA: (p) Batylim / (p) Fl. Lena /(p) B. Poppius / (h) L. inflata Zett. Var. (major) Det. Brnh. /(h) (same hand writing as for holotype) Lomechusa inflata Zett. /(p) http:// id.luomus.fi/GAC.26894, Lomechusoides inflatus (Zetterstedt, 1828), B. Poppius det. / red label (p) PARATYPE ♀ Lomechusoides poppiusi sp. nov., det. T. Jászay, P. Hlaváč & P. Baňař det., 2021 (MZHF). Note: The exact location of the type locality: Russia, Yakutia, „Fl. Lena (Batylim after Frey, 1955: 504)“ [= Lena River, somewhat below the junction of the Aldan River, 62°01′38″N 129°43′55″E] (Shamshev 2016). Description. Body light reddish-brown (Fig. 30) except head light reddish and anterior margin of visible tergites II–IV, larger part of anterior margin of visible tergites V–VII and larger part of anterior margin of visible sternites V–VII brown. Head rectangular, dull, slightly longer than wide, ratio HW/HL: 0.88, with deep, broad, round frontal median impression which is unevenly microsculptured by scarce, larger and shallow punctures; disc of head microsculptured and with fine punctures, dull; length of eyes 0.26x of length of head; eyes slightly protuberant, temples behind of eyes straight, subparallel. Antennae long, scape 1.66x as long as wide and 2.50x as long as pedicel, pedicel as long as wide, antennomere III: 1.37x, antennomeres IV–VIII oval elongate, IV: 1.10x, V: 1.44x as long ...