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Issue: Vol. 4686 No. 2: 15 Oct. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.2.8
Page range: 282–288
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 5

Notes on the genus Dianous LEACH, 1819 with description of a new species from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

Laboratory of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Science, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234, China
Laboratory of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Science, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234, China
Laboratory of Environmental Entomology, College of Life Science, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234, China
Coleoptera Staphylinidae Dianous new species China

Abstract

A new species of the Dianous calceatus complex from China is described: Dianous pengi Wang, Tang &  Luo sp. n. from Guangxi Province. New distributional records are reported for Dianous calvicollis Puthz, 2016, Dianous luteostigmaticus Rougemont, 1986 and Dianous huanghaoi Tang & Li, 2011. Diagnostic characters for all the species are illustrated.

 

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