Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-20
Page range: 64–70
Abstract views: 44
PDF downloaded: 4

Range extension for Eupiestus spinifer Fauvel in China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Piestinae)

Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Piestinae

Abstract

Eupiestus spinifer Fauvel, 1895 is newly recorded from China (Yunnan Province). The habitus and morphological details of this species are illustrated for the first time.

 

References

  1. Abdullah, M., & Qadri, N.-N. (1970) The Staphylindiae [sic], Coleoptera of Pakistan. Part III. A key to the genera and species of the Piestinae, Osoriinae, Pseudopsinae and Oxytelinae, with descriptions of new genera, subgenera and species from Karachi. Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 13, 114–131.

    Bernhauer, M. (1922) Sauter’s Formosa-Ausbeute: Staphylinidae. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A), 88, 220–237.

    Cameron, M. (1930) The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera. Staphylinidae. Vol. 1. Taylor and Francis, London, xvii + 471 pp.

    Cameron, M. (1949) New species and records of staphylinid beetles from Formosa, Japan, and South China. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 99, 455–477.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.3247.455

    Caron, E., Ribeiro-Costa, C.S. & Newton, A. F. (2011) Cladistic analysis and revision of Piestus Gravenhorst with remarks on related genera (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Piestinae). Invertebrate Systematics, 25, 490–585.

    Fauvel, A. (1895) Staphylinides nouveaux de l’Inde et de la Malaisie. Revue d’Entomologie, 14, 180–286.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS10016

    Herman, L.H. (2001) Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. Vol. 3, Oxyteline group. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 265, 1067–1806.

    Khachikov, E.A. (2007) A new species of the genus Siagonium Kirby et Spence, 1815 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin, 3, 103–104. [in Russian]

    Kraatz, G. (1859) Die Staphylinen-Fauna von Ostindien, insbesondere der Insel Ceylan. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 25, 1–196.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.66002

    Naomi, S.-I. (2006) Description of a new species of the genus Siagonium Kirby et Spence from Japan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Piestinae). Natural History Research, 9, 41–44.

    Naomi, S.-I. (2011) Discovery of the genus Eupiestus Kraatz, 1859 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Piestinae) from Japan, with description of a new species from Iriomote Is., Nansei Islands. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 17, 59–64.

    Rougemont, G.-M. de (2014) Eupiestus pongo, a new species from Borneo (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Piestinae). Entomologist’s monthly magazine, 150, 93–96.

    Scheerpeltz, O. (1933) Staphylinidae VII. In: Schenkling, S. (Ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. 6. Junk, Berlin, pp. 989–1500.

    Scheerpeltz, O. (1965) Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Expedition 1934 nach Indien und Burma. Coleoptera Staphylinidae (except Megalopsidiinae et Steninae). Arkiv för Zoologi, 17, 93–371.

    Schülke, M. & Smetana, A. (2015) Staphylinidae. In: Löbl, I. & Löbl, D. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Hydrophiloidea – Staphylinoidea. Vols. 1–2. Brill, Leiden, pp. 304–1134.

    Shibata, Y. (1973) Preliminary check list of the family Staphylinidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Coleoptera). Annual Bulletin of the Nichidai Sanko, 16, 21–88.

    Shibata, Y. (1991) A large-sized new Eupiestus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Southeast Asia. Elytra, 19, 229–234.

    Smetana, A. (2004) Staphylinidae. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2. Hydrophiloidea – Histeroidea – Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstru, pp. 237–698.

    Zheng, F.-K. (2004) Staphylinidae. In: Yang, X.-K., Huang, F.-S. & Yao, J. (Eds.), Insects of the Great Yarlung Zangbo Canyon of Xizang, China. China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, pp. 50–60. [in Chinese]