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Issue: Vol. 5609 No. 1: 19 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.1.4
Page range: 70-82
Abstract views: 179
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Resolving the taxonomic confusion of Taxicera Mulsant & Rey, 1873 and Dalotia Casey, 1910 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), with the rediscovery of Dalotia pseudorphana (Cameron, 1933), comb. nov., from bird nest material

Systematic Entomology; Graduate School of Agriculture; Hokkaido University; Sapporo; 060–8589 Japan; Department of Biology; School of Biological Sciences; Tokai University; Sapporo; 005–8601 Japan
The Kyushu University Museum; Hakozaki 6-10-1; Higashi-ku; Fukuoka; 812-8581; Japan
Coleoptera Athetini taxonomy Taxicerini

Abstract

The long-standing taxonomic confusion regarding Japanese and some Oriental species of Taxicera Mulsant & Rey, 1873 and Dalotia Casey, 1910, is resolved based on morphological studies. As a result, Dalotia garuda (Sawada, 1971), comb. nov., Dalotia pendleburyi (Cameron, 1933), comb. nov., and D. pseudorphana (Cameron, 1933), comb. nov. formerly placed in Taxicera are transferred to Dalotia. Furthermore, the rarely collected species D. pseudorphana (Cameron, 1933), comb. nov. was rediscovered in bird nesting materials.

 

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