Drusilla bilobata Pace 2014, nov.sp

Drusilla bilobata nov.sp. (Figs 43 and 179-180) T y p e m a t e r i a l Holotype, Sabah, Danum Valley, B.R.L., f.i.t., 14-16.II.2007, G. de Rougemont leg. (CROU). D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 5 mm. Body shiny, brown, pronotum reddish, abdomen yellowish-red with the fourth and fifth free abdominal tergites reddish, antennae brown with the two basal antennomeres and the base of third yellowish-red, legs yellowish-red. Second antennomere shorter than the first, third longer than the second, fourth as long as wide, fifth to tenth transverse. Eyes longer than the postocular region in dorsal view. Reticulation of head and pronotum evident, that of the elytra superficial, that of the abdomen very transverse and clearly visible. Puncturation of the fore-body fine, very superficial and evident, that of the abdomen fine and superficial. The median sulcus of the pronotum does not reach the anterior margin and posteriorly it ends in a deep median dimple. Spermatheca: Fig. 179; female sixth free tergite: Fig. 180. C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The habitus of the new species is similar to that of D. spissatheca PACE, 2008 also from Borneo, but the maximum width of the distal bulb of the spermatheca of the new species is greater (0.06 mm), than in spissatheca (0.048 mm). E t y m o l o g y: The name of the new species "two lobed" refers to the two large lobes of the sixth free abdominal tergite of the female.
Published as part of Pace, R., 2014, Aleocharinae from Sabah (Borneo) collected by Guillaume de Rougemont (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 727-794 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 756, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5306753