Cephennium liguricum Kahlen & Eckelt, 2024, nov.sp.

Cephennium liguricum nov.sp. (Figs 16-20, 80) C. discrepans BESUCHET i.l. T y p e M a t e r i a l: Holotype ♁: Italy / Genova, Ligurian Apennines, Passo del Faiallo N, 950 m, 44.4706°N, 8.6669°E, 8.5.2010, hazel leaf litter between rocks, leg. Kahlen. / Cephennium liguricum nov.sp. ♁ det. Kahlen / Holotype TLMF. Paratypes: Italy / Savona, Finale Ligure NW: 2♁♁ 1♀ Verezzi E, Cava del Colle, 250 m, 44.1656°N, 8.3169°E, 31.12.2018, litter under bushes between rocks, leg. Kahlen (TLMF); 1♁ Verezzi N, il Castellaro, 325 m, 44.1719°N, 8.31°E, 29.12.2018, leaf and branch litter, leg. Kahlen (TLMF); 1♁ Verezzi N, 250 m SE Torre Bastia, 320 m, 44.1747°N, 8.3086°E, 16.4.2019, dry leaf litter, leg. Kahlen (TLMF). Non type material: 2♁♁: Emilia [Romagna], [Parma], Santa Maria Taro, leg. Fiori, coll. Besuchet; 1♁: Ruta [Liguria, Genova], leg. Dodero, coll. Besuchet (unpublished notes Besuchet). E t y m o l o g y: The species name derives from its predominant distribution in the Liguria region. D e s c r i p t i o n: Habitus as in Fig. 16. Body length 1.15-1.2 mm. Body dark reddish-brown to blackish, appendages slightly lighter; glossy, hair sparse, moderately long, and almost appressed. Head glossy, unpunctured, with very prominent eyes on the sides. Antennal segments 1 to 7 slightly longer than wide, segment 8 distinctly smaller than segment 7 and rounded, followed by the distinctly separated three-segmented club. Pronotum wider than long (1.3:1), glossy with very fine and extremely widespread punctation, greatest width before the middle, converging straight towards the rear from here. Elytra narrower than long (1:1.36), glossy and with punctation as fine and widespread as that on the pronotum. Greatest width before the middle, sides evenly rounded. The centrally rounded, laterally flattened, extended basal foveae with a denser central tuft of hair. In males, the fore and middle tibiae are slightly thickened in their apical halves (Fig. 19). Underside: ♁ with metaventrite not impressed, flat, highly glossy, scarcely haired. Extensively fine and widespread punctured towards the edges and further towards the sides (Fig. 18) Genitalia: Length 0.32-0.35 mm. Dorsal Fig. 17 & 80., lateral Fig. 20.