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Issue: Vol. 5175 No. 3: 17 Aug. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-08-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.3.6
Page range: 389-393
Abstract views: 330
PDF downloaded: 32

Discoxenus Wasmann new to China with description of a new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)

Shenzhen Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Center of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen Guangdong 518049, China
Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234 P. R. China
Shenzhen Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Center of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen Guangdong 518049, China
Shenzhen Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Center of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen Guangdong 518049, China
Shenzhen Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Center of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen Guangdong 518049, China
Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234 P. R. China
Coleoptera Compactopediina termitophily host specificity Macrotermitinae Shenzhen

Abstract

The termitophilous genus Discoxenus Wasmann, 1904 (Aleocharini: Compactopediina) is recorded from China for the first time and a new species from Guangdong is described under the name: Discoxenus shenzhenensis sp. nov.

 

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