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Issue: Vol. 4097 No. 3: 1 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-03-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.3.8
Page range: 409–415
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 4

Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Neuraphes Thomson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) in 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 Glandulariini Neuraphes new species oriental China

Abstract

Two new species of the ant-like stone beetle genus Neuraphes Thomson, 1859 (Scydmaeninae: Glandulariini) from Sichuan Province are described: N. (Pararaphes) shu sp. n. and N. (Pararaphes) xilingensis sp. n., their aedeagi are illustrated. A single female of the nominotypical subgenus from Heilongjiang Province is also recorded.

 

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