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Issue: Vol. 4472 No. 1: 7 Sept. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.1.4
Page range: 100–110
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 4

Four new species of Pselaphodes Westwood (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Thailand, Laos, and China

Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China
Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China
Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China
Coleoptera Tyrini Pselaphodes new taxa intraspecific variation Asia

Abstract

Four new species of Pselaphodes Westwood are described from southern Asia: P. femoralis sp. n. (China, Thailand), P. incisus sp. n. (China, Laos), P. suthepensis sp. n. (Thailand), and P. thailandicus sp. n. (Thailand), supported by illustrations of male habitus and major diagnostic characters. One of the new species (P. femoralis) exhibits considerable intraspecific variation in the aedeagal structure, but may be readily distinguished by a stable combination of unique male external features.

 

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