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Issue: Vol. 5271 No. 2: 26 Apr. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-04-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5271.2.12
Page range: 384-388
Abstract views: 197
PDF downloaded: 16

A new species of the rare genus Rutaraphes Jałoszyński from Japan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)

Museum of Natural History; University of Wrocław; Sienkiewicza 21; 50-335 Wrocław; Poland
Coleoptera Stenichnini taxonomy new species Far East

Abstract

To date, the stenichnine genus Rutaraphes Jałoszyński includes only two species: R. shikokuensis Jałoszyński (Japan) and R. taiwanicus Jałoszyński (Taiwan), both known from a single holotype male. Consequently, Rutaraphes can be placed among the rarest Palaearctic genera of Scydmaeninae. Three males of this remarkable genus were found recently during a museum survey, all collected in a flight intercept trap in Central Honshū, Japan. They represent a new species, described herein as Rutaraphes honshuensis sp. n., morphologically close to R. shikokuensis.

 

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