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Issue: Vol. 3613 No. 2: 8 Feb. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-02-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.2.4
Page range: 165–175
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 4

Taxonomy of the subgenus Euleptarthrus Jakobson (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Osoriinae, Priochirus) of China with descriptions of three new species

Shanghai Entomological Museum, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Rd., Xuhui District, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichenxi Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichenxi Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P. R. China
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Priochirus Euleptarthrus new species China

Abstract

Three new species of subgenus Euleptarthrus Jakobson, 1908 of the genus Priochirus Sharp, 1887 are described from China: P. (E.) trifurcus Wu & Zhou sp. nov. from Xizang, P. (E.) deltodontus Wu & Zhou sp. nov. from Yunnan and P. (E.) curtidentatus Wu & Zhou sp. nov. from Xizang and Yunnan. Diagnoses are also given for two species previously described from China, P. (E.) chinensis Bernhauer, 1933 and P. (E.) subbrevicornis Bernhauer, 1934. An updated version of the key to all Chinese species of the subgenus Euleptarthrus is provided. Important morphological characters are illus-trated.

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