Micranops nepalicus, sp. nov. (Figs 113–118, 165, 166) Type specimens: Holotype ♂, Nepal, Koshi: Arun Valley, 1100 m, 21.IV.1984, leg. Löbl & Smetana (MHNG). Paratype ♂, Nepal, Lamobagar Gao [Lamabagar?], 1400 m, 28.–31.V.1980, leg. Wittmer (NHMB). Description: Macrophthalmous species with palisade fringe of abdominal tergite VII; type specimens macropterous with elytral sutural length about as long as pronotum and functionary metathoracic wings. Body color including appendages light brown. Body surface subnitid with fine, dense, setose punctation. Head about 1.1 times longer than wide, with moderately convex temples and straight posterior margin. Eyes 0.48–0.5 times as long as temples. Nuchal groove 0.29–0.32 times as wide as greatest head width. Trichobothrial cavity guttiform with sharply edged ventral and rounded dorsal margin; ventral margin of trichobothrial cavity connected to dorsoposterior margin of eye at level of latter, thus trichobothrial cavity situated dorsoposterior of eye. Antenna compact; pedicellus subquadrate, antennomeres 3 as long as wide, antennomeres 4–10 increasingly transverse; antennomere 10 about 0.7 times, antennomere 11 about 1.1–1.2 times as long as wide. Total body length 2.4 mm; forebody length 1.2–1.3 mm. Male: Protarsomeres 1–4 dilated, about twice as wide as long. Abdominal sterniteVII with slightly concave posterior margin, in median third of posterior two-thirds of sternite length depressed and comprised of longitudial, asetose median field bordered by two lateral strips of moderately strong macrosetae directed slightly medioposteriorly; posterior sternite margin with two very slight, convex, submedial curves where setose stripes end (Fig. 165). Abdominal sternite VIII with subbasal ridge strongly curved toward basal ridge and medially interrupted with inner ends curved posteriad; posterior margin with deep, narrow incision occupying almost 0.5 of sternite length; lateral setae very long, up to 0.45 times as long as sternite length (Fig. 166). Aedeagus with lobe-bearing apical portion occupying about 0.35–0.4 of aedeagal length, subcircular in lateral view, and set off from phallobase by dorsal constriction (Figs 113, 116); phallobase in dorsal view long-oval, about 3.5 times as long as wide (Figs 115, 118), strongly extended beyond base of ventral process, there straight ventrally (Figs 113, 116). Lobes of apical portion of aedeagus largely membraneous, not distinguishable without dissection. Apical portion of aedeagus widely convex dorsally with membranous, irregularly shaped apical end, ventrally extended into semicircular lobe, probably of apical lobes (Figs 113, 116). Ventromedial endophallic lobe not discernible. Endophallic sclerites as in Figs 113, 115, 116, 118. Ventral process reaching membranous end of apical portion, in lateral view thin with basal half aligned distoventrad and distal half moderately curved distad, in middle of length with few, ventrolateral denticles (Figs 113, 116); ventral process in ventral view broadly lanceolate with round end, at base about 0.5–0.6 times as wide as aedeagus at same level, at widest point about as wide as aedeagus at same level (Figs 114, 117). Dorsomidlongitudinal split including dorsodistal opening occupying most of length of phallobase (Figs 115, 118); latter therefore collapsed in dry specimens (Figs 113, 116). Postforamen strongly projecting distoventrad, hook-shaped (Figs 113, 116). Circoforamen about twice as long as median foramen (Figs 114, 117). Length of aedeagus 0.31–0.34 mm. Female unknown. Distribution: Micranops nepalicus is recorded from the southern foothills of the Himalayas in eastern Nepal. Etymology: The epithet nepalicus [Latinized adjective (“the Nepalian”), derived from the country name Nepal] refers to the distribution of this new species.

Published as part of Frisch, Johannes, 2025, Micranops Cameron, 1913 in the Old World. New species, redescriptions, and new records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 500-562 in Megataxa 17 (2) on page 544, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.17.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/18485817