Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2020-06-08
Page range: 204–216
Abstract views: 74
PDF downloaded: 7

Three new species of the genus Ocychinus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China

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 Ocychinus China new species identification key

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Ocychinus Smetana, 2003 from China are described: O. motuoensis sp. n. and O. smetanai sp. n. both from Xizang and O. huanghaoi sp. n. from Sichuan. Diagnostic characters for new species are illustrated. Habitus photos of 16 Ocychinus species are given and a key to species of Ocychinus is provided.

 

References

  1. Dvořák, M. (2000) Zwei neue Ocypus–Arten aus dem Altai und aus Tibet (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Reichenbachia, 33 (40), 333–336.

    Smetana, A. (2003) Contributions to the knowledge of the genera of the “Staphylinus–complex’’ (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of China. Part 4. Key to Chinese genera, treatment of the genera Collocypus gen. n., Ocychinus gen. n., Sphaerobulbus gen. n., Aulacocypus and Apecholinus, and comments on the genus Protocypus. Folia Heyrovskyana, 11 (2), 57–135.

    Smetana, A. (2005) Contributions to the knowledge of the “Staphylinus-complex’’ (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part 7. The genus Sphaerobulbus Smetana 2003, section 2. Zootaxa, 1006 (1), 53–64.

    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1006.1.6

    Smetana, A. (2006) Contributions to the knowledge of the “Staphylinus-complex’’ (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part 14. The genus Ocychinus SMETANA 2003, section 2. Zootaxa, 1317 (1), 35–40.

    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1317.1.3

    Smetana, A. (2010) Contributions to the Knowledge of the genera of the “Staphylinus-complex” (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylinini) of China. Part 23. The genus Ocychinus SMETANA, 2003, section 3. Elytra, 38 (1), 65–70.

    Smetana, A. (2014) Contributions to the knowledge of the “Staphylinus-complex” of China. Part 26. The genus Ocychinus SMETANA 2003, section 4. Two new species of Ocychinus, one of them the first representative of the genus in the Himalaya (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae: Staphylinini). Linzer biologische Beiträge, 46 (1), 649–654.