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Issue: Vol. 4658 No. 3: 23 Aug. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-08-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4658.3.8
Page range: 571–584
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 5

Hidden diversity of giant scydmaenines: five new species and new records of Clidicus in the Philippines (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)

Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wrocław, Poland.
Laboratory of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
Wrocławska 104, 58-100 Świdinica, Poland.
Laboratory of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
Coleoptera Mastigitae Clidicini Oriental new species

Abstract

Until now, two species of Clidicus were known to occur in the Philippines, both inhabiting Mindanao. The scarcity of published records (merely six known Philippine specimens of this genus) suggested that Clidicus was rare in this country. We here falsify this view, by describing five new species and providing new records of the previously known species, based on a material of over 80 specimens collected on Mindanao and Luzon. Clidicus forceps Cheng, Yin & Jałoszyński, sp. n., C. interfector Jałoszyński, Cheng & Yin sp. n., C. kalis Jałoszyński, Cheng & Yin sp. n., C. occisor Jałoszyński sp. n., and C. shavrini Jałoszyński sp. n., are described. Clidicus crocodylus Jałoszyński, previously known to occur on Mindanao, is for the first time recorded in Luzon.

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