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Issue: Vol. 4514 No. 4: 9 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.4.10
Page range: 573–582
Abstract views: 62
PDF downloaded: 5

Notes on the Dianous aereus complex with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234 P. R. China.
Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234 P. R. China.
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Dianous aereus complex China new species identification key

Abstract

Dianous pseudaerator Tang and Hu, sp. n., a new species of the Dianous aereus complex from China, is described and illustrated. Male of D. brevicornis Puthz, 2000, is discovered for the first time. New distributional records are reported for D. vietnamensis Puthz, 1980, D. rougemontianus Puthz, 2000, and D. aerator Puthz, 2016.

 

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