Bothromogoplistes paraproctalis, Gorochov, 2020

Bothromogoplistes paraproctalis View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 1–12)

Holotype. Male, South Africa, Northern Cape Prov., ~ 50 km SW of Springbok Town, Namaqua National Park , 100–200 m, semi-desert with salt marsh, beer trap in large burrow of possibly porcupine ( Hystrix ), 11–14.I.2008, A. Gorochov, A. Sotshivko ( ZIN).

Description. Male ( holotype). Body uniformly yellowish with sparse and small whitish scales (many scales missing after beer trap), but eyes greyish brown and having light brown small upper (lacking facets) portions, and antennal flagellum as well as small scales on dorsolateral parts of two posterior tergites and on dorsal half of cerci slightly darkened (greyish-brownish) ( Figs 1, 2). Shape of head and pronotum as in Figs 1–3; fore and middle femora clearly longer than pronotum ( Fig. 1); hind femur almost twice longer than previous femora; fore and middle tibiae with one short and thin ventroapical spur; hind tibia with six rather long apical spurs (middle inner spur reaching distal half of hind basitarsus, dorsal inner and middle outer spurs almost equal in length but distinctly shorter than previous one, dorsal outer and ventral inner spurs slightly shorter than latter spurs, and ventral outer spur shortest but somewhat longer than spurs of fore and middle tibiae), with two rows of sparse and very small dorsal denticles as well as with seta-like spinules between these denticles ( Figs 4, 5); claws moderately long and thin ( Fig. 4). Anal plate almost square but with roundly convex posterior edge, and with a pair of longitudinal stripes of setae located near each other and somewhat not reaching this edge ( Figs 8, 9); each paraproctal hook with distal lamellar part leaf-like as well as having one small dorsolateral lobe and a few thin ventrolateral spinules (these spinules directed more or less backwards), and with one very small dorsal lobule between previous lobe and base of this hook ( Figs 8–10); posteromedian lobule of genital plate very strongly curved upwards and with truncate apex ( Figs 9–12); genitalia as in Figs 6, 7.

Female unknown.

Length in mm. Body 5; pronotum 1.7; fore femora 2.1; hind femora 4.3; hind tibiae 3.5; hind tarsi 2.6.

Remark. One species of Cycloptiloides from Guinea ( C. lamottei Chopard, 1955 ) is with “genitalia” having a pair of spinose structures slightly similar to the lamellar distal parts of the male paraproctal hooks in B. paraproctalis sp. nov. ( Chopard, 1955: fig. 40); if these structures are paraproctal hooks (but not genitalia), C. lamottei may be a primitive relative of this species that preserved the tympana and male tegmina.