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Issue: Vol. 5660 No. 4: 11 Jul. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-07-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.8
Page range: 581-586
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Discovery of the aleocharine tribe Diestotini in Japan, Ogasawara Islands, with description of a new species of the genus Diestota Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

Entomological Laboratory; Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences; Kyushu University; Motooka 744; Nishi- ku; Fukuoka; 819-0395 Japan
Museum of Natural and Environmental History; Shizuoka; Oya 5762; Aoi-ku; Shizuoka-shi; Shizuoka 422-8017 Japan
Coleoptera Aleocharinae Diestotini rove beetle new species taxonomy

Abstract

Diestota (Diestota) ogasawarana Hashizume & Kishimoto, sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Diestotini) is described as the first representative of the genus Diestota Mulsant & Rey, 1870, and the tribe Diestotini from Japan. Aphaenoglossa Peyerimhoff, 1937, the subgenus of Diestota, is elevated to the generic rank.

 

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How to Cite

Hashizume, T. & Kishimoto, T. (2025) Discovery of the aleocharine tribe Diestotini in Japan, Ogasawara Islands, with description of a new species of the genus Diestota Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Zootaxa, 5660 (4), 581–586. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.4.8