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Issue: Vol. 4908 No. 2: 14 Jan. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-01-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4908.2.8
Page range: 276–282
Abstract views: 141
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Notes on the genus Diochus Erichson, with descriptions of two new species from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
School of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395 Japan. The Kyushu University Museum, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 812–8581, Japan
Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234, P. R. China.
China Coleoptera Diochus modified key new species Staphylinidae

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Diochus from China are described and illustrated: D. caudapiscis Shuai, Nozaki & Tang, sp. n. from Yunnan, and D. guizhouensis Shuai, Nozaki & Tang, sp. n. from Guizhou. Diochus bicornutus Zhou & Zhou, 2016 syn. nov. is proposed as a junior synonym of D. japonicus Cameron, 1930, which is reported as new to Anhui. Diagnostic characters for the new species and D. japonicus are illustrated. A modified key to Diochus species of China is provided.

 

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