Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 1741 No. 1: 4 Apr. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-04-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1741.1.5
Page range: 51–58
Abstract views: 60
PDF downloaded: 5

Three new Stenus species of the indubius group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China

Department of Biology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, 200062 P. R. China
Department of Biology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, 200062 P. R. China
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Stenus indubius group identification key new species China

Abstract

Three new Stenus species of the indubius group from Sichuan Province, West-Central China, are described: S. zhuxiaoyui Tang, sp. nov., S. pectorifossatus Tang. sp. nov. and S. erlangshanus Tang, sp. nov. Diagnostic characters are illustrated and a key to Chinese species of this group is provided. The conflict between classifications of Stenus based on subgenera and species groups is briefly discussed. All three new species have diagnostic characters of the subgenus Hemistenus.

References

  1. Latreille, P.A. (1797) Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel. F. Bourdeaux, Brive, xiv + 201 + 7 pp.

    Motschulsky, V. (1860) Énumération des nouvelles espèces de coléoptères rapportées de ses voyages. 3e partie. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 33(2), 539–588.

    Naomi, S.-I. & Puthz, V. (1996) Descriptions of three new species of the Stenus Latreille (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), with notes on new records from Japan. Entomological Review of Japan, 50(2), 153–161.

    Naomi, S.-I. (1997) Four new species of the subgenus Parastenus of the genus Stenus Latreille (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)from Japan. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 3(1): 15–23.

    Naomi, S.-I. (2006) Taxonomic Revision of the genus Stenus Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Steninae) of Japan: species group of S. indubius Sharp. The Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 12 (1), 39–120.

    Puthz, V. (1993) Japanische Stenus-Arten, vorwiegend aus dem Genfer Naturhistorischen Museum (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 229. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Steninen. Revue suisse de Zoologie 100(1): 143–168.

    Rey, C. (1884) Tribu des brévipennes. Deuxième groupe: Micropéplides. Troisième groupe: Sténides. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, 30(2), 153–415.

    Tang, L. & Li, L.-Z. (2005) Two new species of Stenus from Anhui Province, East China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). [In Chinese] In: Ren, G. D. (Ed.) Classification and Diversity of Insects in China. China Agriculture Science and Technology Press, Beijing, pp. 106–109.