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Issue: Vol. 5357 No. 4: 20 Oct. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-10-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.4.5
Page range: 573-586
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Wow assingi gen. and spec. n., with description of a new tribe of Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

Museum of Natural History; University of Wrocław; Sienkiewicza 21; 50-335 Wrocław; Poland
The Kyushu University Museum; Hakozaki 6-10-1; Higashi-ku; Fukuoka; 812-8581 Japan
3407 Sparrowhawk Ave.; Victoria; BC; Canada V9C 0L9 (emeritus scientist: Natural Resources Canada; Pacific Forestry Centre; 506 West Burnside Road; Victoria; BC; Canada V8Z)
Coleoptera rove beetles taxonomy new taxa China

Abstract

A new tribe, Wowini Jałoszyński, Maruyama & Klimaszewski, trib. n., based on a new genus, Wow Jałoszyński, Maruyama & Klimaszewski, gen. n., is established to accommodate an extraordinary new species of aleocharine rove beetles, Wow assingi Jałoszyński, Maruyama & Klimaszewski, spec. n. The species was recently discovered in Yunnan, China. It shows a set of characters unknown in this combination in any other nominal taxon of Aleocharinae. The external morphology and genital male structures are illustrated and discussed. A possible close relationship of the new tribe with Oxypodinini Fenyes is proposed as a working hypothesis, and a parallel evolution of unusual cephalic transformations between Wowini and Keratodegnathus Pace (Lomechusini) is discussed.

 

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