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Issue: Vol. 5448 No. 2: 10 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.2.6
Page range: 261-272
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 6

Tribasodes kamedai Nomura is not a strictly cavernicolous species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

Museum of Natural History; University of Wrocław; Sienkiewicza 21; 50-335 Wrocław; Poland
Department of Zoology; National Museum of Nature and Science; Amakubo 4-1-1; Tsukuba-shi; Ibaraki; 305-0005 Japan
College of Education; University of the Ryukyus; Senbaru 1; Nishihara; Okinawa; 903-0213 Japan
Coleoptera Batrisitae Batrisini Japan Rykus troglobite trogloxene leaf litter hollow trees genitalia interspecific variability distributional records

Abstract

Tribasodes kamedai Nomura, 2012 was described based on specimens collected in a limestone cave in Okinawa-jima Island. We demonstrate that this species is not a strict troglobite, but presumably a trogloxene, as it was recently collected in new localities from forest leaf litter and hollow trees. Tribasodes kamedai is redescribed in detail, with the first illustrations of female genitalia, notes on interspecific variability, and new distributional records.

 

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