Orzolina kratkyi, Machado, 2025

Machado, Antonio, 2025, A new Orzolina Machado, 1987, from the Canary Islands (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiinae), Zootaxa 5686 (1), pp. 141-145 : 142-143

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5686.1.7
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16987123
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/231BEA40-FF99-EC3B-16D2-68AE8A01FA5F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Orzolina kratkyi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Orzolina kratkyi sp. nov.

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Figs 2A View FIGURE 2 , 3 View FIGURE 3

Type material. HOLOTYPE • 1 ♂ SPAIN, Canary Islands, Tenerife, La Guancha, Charco del Viento , - 1 m. (28º24'03"N 16º40'26.5"W) 3-11-2024 leg. A. Machado. Coll. TFMC-EN 4592 GoogleMaps .— PARATYPES. Same collecting data 35 exx (Collection A. Machado, La Laguna ; 3 exx DNA extracted (BC3397, BC3398, BC3399 Coll. IPNA ( Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology ( IPNA-CSIC)); 34 exx leg. R. Valle (30 exx Coll. R. Valle , La Laguna ; 4 exx Coll. R. García , Santa Cruz de La Palma ); 20 exx leg. A. Aguiar (18 exx Coll. A. Aguiar, La Laguna ; 2 exx Coll. J. Krátky, Czech Republic, Hradec Králové); 1 ex same locality 30-12-2021 leg. J. Krátky (Coll. J. Krátky, Czech Republic, Hradec Králové). GoogleMaps

Description. Body length 2.7–3.1 mm; integument glabrous, moderately shiny, with superficial isodiametric polygonal microreticulation, tawny in colour, somewhat infuscate on pronotum and elytra, paler on legs; antennae segments 4–11infuscate.

Head about as long as wide; 0.75× narrower than pronotum; mandibles short, pointed inwards; frontal fovea almost obsolete; frontal lateral carinae moderate (shallower bordering eye); eyes oval (L/W= 1.2–1.3), large, but not longer than antennomeres 1 and 2 together, little convex (20%); antennae ca. 3× length of pronotum, with pubescence starting at 4 th segment.

Pronotum small, cup-like, transverse (L/W= 0.65–0.7), narrowed behind, with maximum width before middle (0.65× width of elytra); anterior angles salient; posterior angles markedly obtuse, lacking prebasal sinuosity; lateral channel deep and broad; discal longitudinal line shallow.

Elytra uniformly oval (L/W= 1.43), moderately convex, with apex slightly separate from each other; humeri smoothly curved (shoulders vanished); pre-apical sinuation abrupt (the edge forms a carinate plica at level of 7 th interstria); lateral channel deep, narrowing apicad until reaching apical plica; striae obsolete (punctures sometimes visible by transparency as blackish dots); five long and stiff discal setae on the 3 rd interstria; scutellar, apical, and subapical setae present; umbilical series with 10 setae variably aggregated (i.e., 4+2+4).

Legs slender; protarsomere ♂ 1–2 a little incrassate (particularly the first); mesotarsomeres 2–4 together not longer than onychium; metatarsomere 1 as long as onychium; claws rather long and thin (more than 1/3 length of onychium).

Aedeagus ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ) with curved median lobe, blunt apex, and a short basal bulb, poorly differentiated; inner sac with a pair of dorsal longitudinal sclerified folded pieces prolonged ring-like to the middle, and a saddle-like strongly sclerified middle-piece. Parameres with a single seta.

Etymology. The species is named after Jiří Krátky (Hradec Kralove), who is deeply interested in the Canarian coleoptera fauna and discovered this new ground-beetle.