Ischnopoda pretiosa Pasnik 2006

Ischnopodapretiosa Pa ś nik, sp. n. (Figs. 69–70)

Type material. Holotype: ♂: Ethiopia: Kaffa, 38 km SW of Jimma Belleta F., 7200 ft., 1971, under bark & dead leaves (BMNH).

Description. Body. Length 3.4 mm, convex, parallel­sided, moderately glossy; body colour black; elytra brownish, legs red, antennae black with antennomeres 1–3 brown.

Head transverse, flattened dorsally, broadly and relatively deeply impressed medially; eyes large, moderately protruding from lateral contours of head, length of each seen from above subequal to that of postocular region; surface of head with isodiametric mesh microsculpture; puncturation fine and dense. Antennae short, clearly increased in width apically, antennomere 3 longer than 2, antennomeres 4–5 longer than wide, antennomeres 6–10 quadrate, antennomere 11 nearly conical.

Pronotum transverse, lateral sides concavely narrowed to obtuse hind angles; before base with small and shallow transverse impression; surface lacking microsculpture; puncturation fine and very dense, pubescence at midline directed entirely anteriorly.

Elytra transverse, at suture longer than pronotum at midline; surface without microsculpture; puncturation fine and dense.

Abdomen parallel­sided, bases of tergites 3–5 each with deep transverse impression, impressions coarsely and densely punctuate, tergal puncturation fine and moderately dense, surface without microsculpture.

Male. Aedeagus as in Figs. 69–70.

Female unknown.

Remarks. See under I. pratensis.

Etymology. The name pretiosa refers to the body shape.

Distribution. The new species is known only from the type locality in Ethiopia.