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Issue: Vol. 4545 No. 4: 21 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.4.2
Page range: 478–494
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 5

A review of the Tachinus longicornis-group of the subgenus Tachinoderus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae) from China 

Lab of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China
Lab of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China
Lab of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Deutschland
Coleoptera taxonomy Tachinus longicornis-group new species new records China

Abstract

The Chinese species of the Tachinus longicornis-group of the subgenus Tachinoderus Motschulsky are reviewed with six species being treated, of which five are described as new: T. bilobus Chang, Li, & Yin sp. nov. (Hubei, Sichuan), T. centralis Chang, Li, Yin & Schülke sp. nov. (Shaanxi, Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan), T. curvipennis Chang, Li, & Yin sp. nov. (Hubei), T. lobutulus Chang, Li, & Yin sp. nov. (Yunnan), and T. tangliangi Chang, Li, Yin & Schülke sp. nov. (Yunnan; Thailand: Chiang Mai). Numerous new records are provided for T. ohbayashii Li, Zhao & Sakai, a species originally described from West Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang. An identification key and a distributional map for the Chinese species are given.

 

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