Tychus grassator Sabella, 2011

Tychus grassator Sabella, 2011 View in CoL Figs 28, 31

MATERIAL EXAMINED: PCVB, 2♀♀; Turkey, Izmir Prov., environs of Kemalpasa, Nif

Daği, 972 m, 38°24’19”N 27°23’32”E; 24.04.2006; H. Meybohm & V. Brachat GoogleMaps .

DESCRIPTION: Length 1.45 mm. Winged. Body uniformly reddish brow with antennae and legs yellowish and palpi yellow.

Head slightly longer ( 0.270 mm) than wide ( 0.260 mm), frontal rostrum 0.150 mm wide and 0.060 mm long. Eyes with 8 facets. Antennae (Fig. 28) 0.800- 0.820 mm long, club 0.325 mm long; scape distinctly longer than wide; antennomeres II-V distinctly longer than wide; V slightly longer than IV; VI as long as wide, VII longer than wide, VIII distinctly wider than long. Apical segment of maxillary palpi 0.145 mm long and 0.060 mm wide.

Pronotum as long as large ( 0.325 mm) with small lateral antebasal foveae in shallow impressions.

FIGS 26-28

Antennae of Tychus female. (26) T. sodalicius from Antakya ( Hatay). (27) T. spurius from Sinop. (28) T. grassator from Kemalpasa ( Izmir). Scale bar 0.1 mm.

FIGS 29-30

Genital plates of Tychus . (29) T. sodalicius from Antakya ( Hatay). (30) T. spurius from Sinop. Scale bar 0.1 mm.

Elytra wider ( 0.560 mm) than long ( 0.410 mm) with humeri not very protruding. Discal fovea joined to discal stria, latter reaching elytral mid-length.

Abdomen with first tergite 0.175 mm long, basal impression extending on more than 1/3 of tergal width.

Genital plate as in Fig. 31.