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Issue: Vol. 5244 No. 1: 16 Feb. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-02-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.1.2
Page range: 33-40
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Pseudothinusa sunahama, a new genus and species of the tribe Athetini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from sandy beaches in Japan

Department of Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Tokai University, Hokkaido, 005-8601, Japan.
The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6-10-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan.
Palaerctic rove beetle seashore taxonomy Western Pacific Coleoptera

Abstract

Pseudothinusa sunahama Tasaku & Maruyama gen. et sp. nov. (Aleocharinae) is described based on specimens collected from sandy beaches on the islands of Hokkaidô, Honshû, Shikoku, and Kyûshû, Japan. Pseudothinusa sunahama is the first Japanese athetine species discovered with spines on the front and middle tibiae.

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