Tychus assingi Brachat, 2012

Tychus assingi Brachat View in CoL sp. n. Figs 6, 17-18

HOLOTYPE: MHNG, 3; Turkey, Mersin Prov., N Anamur, road Ermenek-Anamur , about 2 km S Kazanci, 1.421 m, 36°28’59.9’’N 32°50’45.2’’E; 22.04.2005; H. Meybohm & V. Brachat. GoogleMaps

DESCRIPTION: Length 1.40 mm. Winged. Body dark brown with elytra reddish, antennae and legs yellowish and palpi yellow.

Head wider ( 0.285 mm) than long ( 0.265 mm), frontal rostrum 0.135 mm wide and 0.055 mm long. Eyes consisting in 16 facets. Apical segment of maxillary palpi 0.165 mm long and 0.075 mm wide.

Pronotum wider ( 0.325 mm) than long (0. 300 mm) with lateral antebasal foveae in shallow impression.

FIGS 13-14 Tychus meybohmi , holotype, aedeagus in ventral (13) and lateral (14) views. Scale bar 0.1 mm .

Elytra wider ( 0.610 mm) than long (0. 500 mm) with slightly protruding humeri. Discal fovea joined to discal stria, latter reaching more than elytral mid-length.

Abdomen with first tergite 0.190 mm long, basal impression extending on more than 1/3 of tergal width.

Male: Antennae (Fig. 6) 0.760 mm long, club 0.285 mm long; scapus distinctly longer than wide; antennomeres II and III longer than wide; IV slightly wider than long, V as long as wide and slightly wider than IV; VI and VII distinctly wider than long, VII slightly longer than VI, VIII strongly wider than long. Posterior margin of mesotrochanters acute in middle. Mesotibiae and metatibiae unarmed. Aedeagus (Figs 17-18) 0. 300 mm long.

Female: Unknown.

FIGS 15-16 Tychus nothus , holotype, aedeagus in ventral (15) and lateral (16) views. Scale bar 0.1 mm .

COMMENTS: Tychus assingi sp. n. is similar to T. rhodopeus Besuchet & Sabella, 1999 , from which it is distinguished by the shape of the antennomere IV slightly wider than long and V as wide as long (IV and V distinctly longer than wide in T. rhodopeus ) and by the different shape of the ventral portion of the aedeagal median lobe.