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Batrisoplisus Raffray, 1908, a new synonymy of Trisinus Raffray, 1894 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), with description of three new Chinese species

Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 3-23-1 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-0073 Japan
Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Pselaphinae Batrisoplisus Trisinus taxonomy new synonym new species identification key checklist China

Abstract

The genus Batrisoplisus Raffray, 1908 is synonymized with Trisinus Raffray, 1894, with twenty-two new combinations:T. amamianus (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. constrictus (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. esakii (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T.galloisi (Jeannel, 1958) comb. n., T. inermis (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. monostatos (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. oka-motoi (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. parallelus (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. raffrayi (Jeannel, 1958) comb. n., T.sagamianus (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. satsumanus (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. sawadai (Nomura, 1991) comb. n.,T. subtilis (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. tamino (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. tanabei (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. tenui-formis (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. torticornis (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. tosanus (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. uroce-ratus brevispinis (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. uroceratus uroceratus (Nomura, 1991) comb. n., T. venustus (Jeannel,1958) comb. n. and T. volcaninsulanus (Nomura, 1991) comb. n. Trisinus is recorded for the first time from China. Threenew species from Yunnan Province are described, illustrated and keyed: T. pharelatus Yin & Nomura sp. n., T.shaolingiger Yin & Nomura sp. n. and T. shuixiuifer Yin & Nomura sp. n. A checklist of the world species of Trisinus is provided.

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