Operclipygus petrovi Caterino & Tishechkin 2013

Length: 1.97 mm, width: 1.65 mm; body rufo-piceous, smooth and shining, ovoid, rather strongly convex; frons depressed at middle, frontal stria divergent between eyes, central portion detached from sides; supraorbital stria fine, more or less complete, connected to frontal stria; epistoma convex, weakly emarginate at apex; pronotal disk strongly flattened across middle of base, but not plicate; disk with very fine ground punctation and few faint coarser punctures at sides; marginal pronotal stria absent behind head; lateral submarginal stria continuous with anterior submarginal stria; anterior pronotal gland openings present behind eye and midway between median opening and anterior pronotal corner; elytron with one complete epipleural stria, outer subhumeral stria present in apical half, inner subhumeral stria absent, the interval between outer subhumeral and 1st dorsal stria strongly swollen, striae 1-3 complete, 4th and 5th striae short, present only in apical one-fifth, sutural striae present in apical two-thirds, more broadly impressed anteriorly; prosternal keel broad, flat, weakly emarginate at base, carinal striae complete, convergent, united in front; mesoventrite weakly projecting at middle, marginal stria interrupted; mesometaventral stria broadly arched forward beyond middle of mesoventral disk, continued at sides by lateral metaventral stria toward outer third of metacoxa; 1st abdominal ventrite with single complete lateral stria, bent mediad at apex; propygidium with faint ground punctation, with large, shallow, elongate oval, punctures separated by about half their diameters; pygidium with dense but rather shallow ground punctation, small, coarser punctures uniformly interspersed; marginal pygidial sulcus fine, weakly crenulate, nearly complete but usually obsolete in basal corners. Male genitalia indistinguishable from those of Operclipygus farctus (see Figs 48A–D, K).