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Issue: Vol. 4407 No. 4: 12 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.4.4
Page range: 521–532
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 3

Four new species of the genus Mannerheimia Mäklin, 1880 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) from south-western China and Taiwan

Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienibas 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia.
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Omaliinae Mannerheimia taxonomy new species China Taiwan Palaearctic Region

Abstract

Four new species of the genus Mannerheimia Mäklin, 1880 from south-western China and Taiwan are described and illustrated: M. grandilobata Shavrin, sp.n. (China: Yunnan), M. emeishanensis Shavrin, sp.n. (China: Sichuan), M. maculata Shavrin, sp.n. (China: Yunnan) and M. taiwanica Shavrin, sp.n. (Taiwan: Taichung Hsien, Nantou Hsien), the first records of the genus from China and Taiwan. A key to species known from China and Taiwan and distributional maps for each species are provided.

 

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