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Issue: Vol. 5575 No. 2: 23 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.2.7
Page range: 314-324
Abstract views: 76
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Two new species of Apateticinae from Guangxi, China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

College of Life Sciences; Shanghai Normal University; 100 Guilin Road; 1 Educational Building 323 Room; Shanghai; 200234; China
Natural History Museum Vienna; International Research Institute for Entomology; Burgring 7; A - 1010 Wien; Austria
College of Life Sciences; Shanghai Normal University; 100 Guilin Road; 1 Educational Building 323 Room; Shanghai; 200234; China
Coleoptera Apatetica Nodynus southern China

Abstract

Two new species of Apateticinae from Guangxi, southern China are described: Apatetica xuyuhaoi Chang, Schillhammer & Tang, sp. nov. and Nodynus huapingensis Chang, Schillhammer & Tang, sp. nov. These species are characterized, and compared to similar congeners, supplemented with illustrations of the habitus and sexual characters.

 

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