Dinaraea aequata (Erichson 1837)

Dinaraea aequata is a species of rove beetles native to Europe.

Body length 3.2–3.5 mm; body dark brown with legs, antennae (at least basally) and labial palpi yellowish- or reddish-brown; head, pronotum and elytra matte, elytra less so, with dense microsculpture; abdominal microsculpture moderately dense and integument glossy; head about as broad as pronotum, genae slightly longer than eyes in dorsal view; pronotum broadest at middle, slightly transverse, as long as elytra at suture; elytra transverse, truncate posteriorly; abdomen arcuate laterally, broadest at middle; male tergite VIII with four small sharp teeth at apical margin (Fig. 2c), sternite VIII slightly produced posteriorly, antecostal suture sinuate (Fig. 2d); median lobe of aedeagus with short and straight tubus, venter of tubus and narrowly rounded apex slightly produced ventrally (Fig. 2b); female tergite VIII slightly sinuate apically on each side of the disc (Fig. 2f), sternite VIII truncate apically, antecostal suture sinuate (Fig. 2g); spermatheca with pear-shaped capsule and moderately deep apical invagination, stem narrow, long and looped posteriorly, slightly swollen at apex (Fig. 2e).

Known only from New Brunswick.