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Issue: Vol. 4425 No. 3: 31 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4425.3.9
Page range: 567–574
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species and an additional record of Pseudotachinus Cameron from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae)

Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
Coleoptera taxonomy new taxon Tachyporini Pseudotachinus southern China

Abstract

Pseudotachinus bilobus Yin and Li, new species, is described from the border of Guizhou and Guangxi, southern China, with habitus and diagnostic features illustrated. The new species is distinct, and can be readily separated from all other congeners by the complete lack of microsculpture on the dorsal surface of the body, strongly transverse elytra, and unique forms of male and female sternites VIII. In addition, P. assingi Schülke is recorded from a new locality in Yunnan. The latest identification key and distributional map of Pseudotachinus are modified to include the new data.

 

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