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Issue: Vol. 4457 No. 4: 10 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.4.9
Page range: 589–594
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 4

Two new cavernicolous Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from southern China

Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P. R. China
taxonomy new taxa cavernicoles Batrisini Asian limestone cave Coleoptera

Abstract

Two new cavernicolous pselaphines, Araneibatrus curvitibialis Yin and Zhou, sp. n. and Tribasodites biyun Yin and Zhou, sp. n., are described from southern China, with diagnostic characters illustrated. Both new species can be readily distinguished from their respective congeners by the male dimorphic features on the antennae, legs, and (or) metaventrite, as well as by the configurations of the aedeagi.

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