Type material: HOLOTYPE; ♂; CHINA, ‘China: Xizang, Nyingchi City, Shergy La, Lulang tourist center, 29°37′2″N, 94°41′55″E, 4300 m, 14.vii.2021, Peng, Yin & Zhang, 色季拉游客中心北坡’ (SNUC). PARATYTYPE; 1 ♂; CHINA, same collection data as of holotype (SNUC).

Description: Habitus (Fig. 1A) elongate-oval, slightly convex in profile view. Body length (from anterior margin of frons to posterior margin of abdomen) 2.3-2.6 mm, width (maximum width of pronotum) 1.1-1.2 mm. Head black; antennae with antennomeres 1-8 reddish-brown, 9 dark brown for basal 2/3 and reddish-brown for apical 1/3; pronotum blackish, with lateral lobes reddish-brown; elytra black, with posterior margin reddish-brown; scutellum black at base, reddish brown medially at apex; abdominal tergites 1-4 (III–VI) black, 5 (VII) black along base, becoming lighter toward posterior margin, 6 (VIII) reddish-brown; paratergites black with reddish-brown lateral margins; femora and tibiae reddish-brown; genital segments, mouthparts and tarsi yellowish.

Head (Fig. 1B) strongly transverse, length from anterior margin of clypeus to anterior margin of pronotum 0.36-0.39 mm, maximum width across eyes 0.58-0.59 mm; dorsal surface with dense reticulate microsculpture, lacking punctation, almost devoid of pubescence; vertex with basally divergent mediobasal ridge extending anteriorly to vertex, with one distinct glandular pore on each side of base of ridge, areas lateral to ridge shallowly impressed and with raised outer edges, with transverse ridge mesal to raised inner margin of each eye demarcating anterior and posterior impressed areas; frons broadly and conspicuously impressed between weakly raised dorsal surface of antennal insertions, anterior margin not sexually dimorphic; clypeus demarcated from frons by frontal-clypeal ridge, anterior margin of clypeus broadly arcuate and moderately raised. Venter with fine reticulate or transverse linear microsculpture, with multi ridges separating impressed areas; submentum with one oval, admesal impression on each side near base. Eyes prominent. Antennae short, length 0.63 mm, sparsely pubescent except for antennomere 11; antennomere 1 large, convex on mesal margin; 2 broadened at basal half and narrowing apically; 3 as long as 2, basally narrowed; 3-8 successively shorter; 9 slightly transverse; 11 largest, suboval, truncate at base, with dense pubescence; length/width of antennomeres 1-11 including basal stalks (holotype; in mm): 1 0.11/0.06, 2 0.07/0.05, 3 0.07/0.04, 4 0.06/0.04, 5 0.05/0.03, 6 0.04/0.03, 7 0.04/0.03, 8 0.03/0.04, 9 0.14/0.10.

Pronotum (Fig. 1B) distinctly transverse, length at midline 0.52-0.54 mm, maximum width 1.11-1.14 mm, greatest width at subbasal marginal teeth; sides evenly convex, lateral margins with 3-4 teeth, basal teeth larger than apical ones; anterior margin weakly convex between lateral lobes which extend anteriorly to level of eyes; posterior broadly convex at middle, laterally evenly emarginate to round posterolateral angles; disc moderately convex, much lower than profile of elytra, median area with closed cells arranges as in Fig. 1B, with two large glandular pores at outer sides of each lateral carina; reticulate microsculpture present on disc, inner margins of cells and outer 2/3 of explanate lateral areas; posterolateral area flattened, translucent. Hypomera with reticulate microsculpture lateral and posterior to large, deep, oval cavities. Proventral carina narrow, present only on anterior half; proventral process broad.

Scutellum (Fig. 1C) slightly convex, shield-shaped, 1.42-1.46 times as broad as long, with fine microsculpture at middle. Elytra (Fig. 1C) subquadrate, parallel sided, length along suture 0.68-0.71 mm, maximum width 1.10-1.13 mm, widest at approximately posterior 1/5, at widest point about as wide as pronotum, in profile view broadly convex and above plane of pronotum; each elytron with two large glandular pores at base, with inner discal costa slightly sinuate, outer discal costa slightly curved at base, pseudepipleural costa almost straight, separated anteriorly and posteriorly from epipleural costa; discal area of pseudepipleuron slightly flared externally so that pseudepipleural costa visible from dorsal view; epipleuron narrow, with row of coarse punctures; elytral intervals with punctures moderately coarse and deeply impressed, separated by average distance distinctly greater than diameter of puncture, surface between intervals smooth, lacking microsculpture; punctures evenly distributed over intervals, first interval approximately three punctures wide, second approximately 5 punctures wide and third interval six to seven punctures wide. Metathoracic (hind) wings fully developed.

Mesoventrite (Fig. 2A) with reticulate microsculpture at middle and at inner margins of impressed cells; mesoventral process broad, convex on posterior margin. Metaventrite (Fig. 2A) narrowly and shallowly impressed along midline from anterior 1/4 to near posterior margin, followed by slightly transverse, suboval, moderately impression just anterior to posterior margin; with shorter, broader and shallow parallel impression on each side of medial impression slightly posterior to middle of disc; with broadly triangular impression on anterior margin at middle; with obliquely oval impression posterior to mesocoxa, with large glandular pore posterior to mesocoxal cavity but lacking pores at anterior margin of metaventral intercoxal process; with two longitudinal impressions on each side of lateral area; microsculpture of metaventrite mostly confined to impressions, lacking pubescence or punctures.

Abdomen slightly wider than long, length at midline 0.88-1.03 mm, maximum width (at lateral margins of segment 1) 1.03-1.12 mm; tergites (Fig. 2B) and sternites (Fig. 2C) successively narrowing posteriorly; microsculpture present on ridges, accompanying paratergites and lateral areas of sternites; all segments asetose. Tergite 1 (III) with one short, thin median carina, 2-4 (IV-VI) each with broad median and pair of slightly narrower lateral carinae extending from anterior margin to posterior margin (middle carinae) or near posterior 3/5 of tergite (lateral carinae); tergite 5 (VII) with three short carinae extending to basal 1/3 of tergite; median carina of tergite 5 slightly declivous in lateral view. Sternite 1 (III) with ten, 2-5 (IV-VII) each seven short carinae along basal margin, 5 with carinae present only at base, with broad, triangular impression on intercoxal process.

Male. Protibia lacking tooth on mesal margin; mesal margins of meso- and metatibia (Fig. 1A) each with acute triangular tooth posterior to middle. Posterior margin tergite 6 (VIII) evenly and slightly curved. Posterior margin of sternite 6 (VIII) roundly emarginate at middle, with transverse row of short subbasal setae. Aedeagus (Fig. 2D, E) short and broad, length 0.52 mm, with subparallel sides; median lobe with apex broad and strongly emarginate; parameres fused to median lobe, in lateral view narrowing apically and acute at apex, each side with two long subapical setae; endophallus symmetric, composed of three pairs of elongate sclerites. Female. Unknown.

Comparative diagnosis: This species is morphologically similar to M. liweiae, M. songi, and M. xiaoae from Sichuan regarding the dark coloration of the body, and a sexually unmodified (evenly convex) anterior margin of the male frons. Micropeplus shergyla differs from M. liweiae by more evenly convex lateral margins of the pronotum (nearly straight for most of the length in M. liweiae), less convex lateral margins of the elytra, and much thinner posterior halves of the median carinae of tergites 2-4 (IV-VI) and thinner median carina of tergite 5 (VII); and from both M. songi and M. xiaoae by the incomplete lateral carinae of tergites 2-4 (IV-VI) (all three carinae extending through whole length of tergites 2-4 in M. songi and M. xiaoae). The apical structure of the aedeagal median lobe and the shape of the endophallus of M. shergyla are also characteristic. Two other species from Sichuan, M. uenoi and M. nomurai, both having the male frons protruding anteriorly at middle, can be readily separated from M. shergyla. There are three more Micropeplus species from the Himalayan range (Schülke & Smetana, 2015; Newton, 2018): M. editus Herman (replacement name for M. maillei Laporte) from Nepal, M. vulcanus Fauvel from northern India, and M. sikkimi Fauvel from northern India and Pakistan. Neither of these belongs to the Staphylinoides group, their body sizes fall out of the range of the group and are much shorter (ca. 1.5 mm long) than in M. shergyla.

Distribution and habitat: China: Tibet. Both individuals were collected by sifting leaf litter in a Rhododendron dominant forest at an altitude of 4300 m.

Etymology: This species is named after its type locality, i.e., Shergy La (‘La’ means ‘a mountain pass’ in Tibetan).