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Issue: Vol. 1006 No. 1: 10 Jun. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-06-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1006.1.6
Page range: 53–64
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 7

Contributions to the knowledge of the "Staphylinus-complex" (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part 7. The genus Sphaerobulbus Smetana 2003. Section 2

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Biodiversity, Central Experimental Farm, K. W. Neatby Bldg., Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Staphylininae Sphaerobulbus Palaearctic taxonomy new species distribution

Abstract

This is the second paper dealing with the Chinese species of the genus Sphaerobulbus Smetana, 2003. Four species are described as new: S. rex (Shaanxi), S. pusio (Sichuan), S. businskorum (Sichuan) and S. bicolor (Sichuan). Notes concerning the taxonomy of S. bisinuatus Smetana, 2003 and S. abdominalis Smetana, 2003 are presented. New distributional records for S. bisinuatus, S. brezinai Smetana, 2003, S. yulongmontis and S. murzini Smetana, 2003 are given.

References

  1. Smetana, A. (2003) Contributions to the knowledge of the genera of the “Staphylinus-complex” (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of China. Part 4. Key to Chinese genera, treatment of the genera Collocypus gen. n., Ocychinus gen. n., Sphaerobulbus gen. n., Aulacocypus and Apecholinus, and comments on the genus Protocypus. Folia Heyrovskyana, 11, 57–135.

    Smetana, A. (in press [2005]) Contributions to the knowledge of the genera of the “Staphylinus-complex” (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of China. Part 6. On species collected recently in the Meishan area, Sichuan. Elytra, Tokyo, 33.