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Issue: Vol. 1782 No. 1: 3 Jun. 2008
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2008-06-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1782.1.5
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 6

Ocypus (Matidus) primoriensis Smetana, a new species from the Russian Far East (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylinini)

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Biodiversity, Central Experimental Farm, K. W. Neatby Bldg., Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
Entomology Research Laboratory, Ontario Plant Laboratories, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Central Experimental Farm, K. W. Neatby Bldg., 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Staphylinini

Abstract

In a paper dealing with the Chinese species of the subgenera Ocypus Leach, 1819 s. str. and Matidus Motschulsky, 1860, the senior author (Smetana 2007) commented that, in addition to Ocypus coreanus (J. Müller, 1925), an additional, undescribed species occurs in the Russian Far East. Recently, the junior author collected a long series of specimens of this undescribed species in the southernmost part of the Sikhote-Alin mountain range. This material provides the basis for the present paper, in which the new species is described, illustrated and compared to O. coreanus.

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