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Issue: Vol. 4268 No. 2: 16 May 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-05-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.4
Page range: 238–254
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 4

Seven new species of the Stenus cirrus group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Guangxi, South China

Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China
Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Stenus cirrus group new species China Guangxi

Abstract

Seven new species of the Stenus cirrus group collected from Guangxi, South China are described and illustrated: S. hujiayaoi Liu and Tang, sp. n., S. bullatus Liu and Tang, sp. n., S. exesus Liu and Tang, sp. n., S. damingshanus Liu and Tang, sp. n., S. jinxiuensis Liu and Tang, sp. n., S. lianhuashanus Liu and Tang, sp. n., S. hechiensis Liu and Tang, sp. n. The diagnostic characters of the new species are illustrated, and a key to species of the group from Guangxi is provided.

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