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Issue: Vol. 4629 No. 2: 5 Jul. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4629.2.2
Page range: 188–194
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 4

Four new species of Sathytes Westwood (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from the island of Borneo

Laboratory of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
Laboratory of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
Coleoptera taxonomy Sathytes new species East Malaysia Sabah

Abstract

The pselaphine genus Sathytes Westwood is represented in Borneo by a single species. In this paper we describe four new species: S. borneoensis sp. nov., S. liuyei sp. nov., S. larifuga sp. nov., and S. shihongliangi sp. nov. All new species were collected by light traps in Sabah, and show unique combinations of male sexual characters that lead to ready species discriminations. A key to Sathytes species from Borneo is appended.

 

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