Pinocolis okavangensis, Struyve, 2024

Pinocolis okavangensis sp. nov.

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TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED

Botswana: 6/IV/1998, Shakawe Fishing Camp , 18°27’S 21°56’E, leg. J. Deckert, gesiebt: 1 ♂ holotype ( ZMHB) GoogleMaps ; 6/IV/1998, Shakawe Fishing Camp , 18°27’S 21°56’E, leg. J. Deckert, gesiebt: 5 females paratype ( ZMHB) GoogleMaps ; Namibia: Kavango: Popa Falls, Kavango-Ufer, Ufervegetation gesiebt, 18°07’S, 21°35’E, 27/II/1992, Leg. M. Uhlig: 1 ♂ paratype ( ZMHB) GoogleMaps ; Kavango: Malhango Game reserve Piknik site, 1/III/1994, 18°14’S, 21°43’E, lux., leg M. Uhlig: 1 ♀ paratype ( ZMHB) GoogleMaps .

ETYMOLOGY

All individuals were found near the Okavango River.

DESCRIPTION

13–14 mm, length of the forebody 6.5 mm. Coloration: body black with margin of tergite VIII and apical halve of tergite IX dark reddish, abdomen slightly iridescent. Legs, palps, antennae and abdominal segment IX orange. Head with dense macropunctation on the posterior part, not well visible due very dense micropunctation and intermediate punctation. Anterior part with sparse macropunctation and rather dense micropunctation, slightly sparser at the V-shaped line on the head. Labrum with a small shallow median circular excision. Pronotum with the sides convergent towards the base, about 1.6 mm wide and 1.9 mm long, macropunctation hardly recognizable due to very dense micropunctation. Elytra about 2.4 mm wide and 2.8 mm long, punctation dense, with microsculpture. Wings well developed. Abdomen with fine microsculpture. Posterior margin of sternite VIII rounded, also in males.

Aedeagus 2.5 mm. Parameres only just posterior the middle fused. The median lobe in form of a tube more open on the dorsal side prolonged to a long pine on the ventral side and with a slender sclerite. Between the parameres and median lobe a strong sclerite with rounded tip and with a hook on the ventral side, just apical the fusion of the parameres.