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Issue: Vol. 4759 No. 2: 2 Apr. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-04-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.2.8
Page range: 261–268
Abstract views: 105
PDF downloaded: 9

Cyanocypus gen. nov., a new rove beetle genus of the “Staphylinus-complex” (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with one new species from China

Tianjin Institute of Plant Protection, Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 17 km in Jinjing Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin, 300384, P. R. China Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P. R. China University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Rd., Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P. R. China University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Rd., Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
Taxonomy Coleoptera Staphylinidae Staphylinina Ocypus group Cyanocypus gen. nov. China

Abstract

This paper reports one new genus, Cyanocypus gen. nov. and one new species, Cyanocypus leukos sp. nov. from Yunnan, China. A comparison between the new genus and other related genera is provided and the diagnostic characters are illustrated.

 

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