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Issue: Vol. 4318 No. 3: 8 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.8
Page range: 561–575
Abstract views: 82
PDF downloaded: 4

Eight new species and two new records of Batriscenellus Jeannel (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from China and India

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 Pselaphinae Batriscenellus new species new records China India

Abstract

Eight new species of the pselaphine genus Batriscenellus Jeannel (Batrisitae: Batrisini) are described from China and India: B. besucheti, new species (India: Meghalaya), B. carltoni, new species (India: Meghalaya and Assam), B. cuccodoroi, new species (India: Meghalaya), B. fanxingqiui, new species (China: Fujian), B. loebli, new species (India: Meghalaya), B. pengzhongi, new species (China: Guizhou), B. simplex, new species (China: Guangxi), and B. strictus, new species (China: Zhejiang). Habitus and major diagnostic features of the new species are illustrated. New distributional records for B. femoralis Yin & Li (China: Fujian, Hunan) and B. xijiaogongyuan Yin, Jiang & Chen (China: Jiangxi) are provided.

 

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