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Issue: Vol. 5165 No. 4: 18 Jul. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-07-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.4.3
Page range: 501-519
Abstract views: 758
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Revision of the genus Plesiochara Sawada (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)

Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0375 Japan.
The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6-10-1, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
Coleoptera Aleocharini Palearctic new species redescription

Abstract

The Japanese species of the genus Plesiochara Sawada, 1989 (tribe Aleocharini) are revised. Four species are recognized from Japan: Plesiochara japonica (Sharp, 1874) comb. nov. (removed from Ocalea Erichson), P. nitida Sawada, 1990, P. inflexa sp. nov. and P. rufula sp. nov. Plesiochara fusca Sawada, 1989 is synonymized with P. japonica, syn. nov. All species are described or redescribed, and a key is provided.

 

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