The Pselaphitae fauna of the Nanling Mountains is sporadically documented. In this paper, two new species of the tribe Tyrini are described and characterized: Linan maoermontis sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrior to this study, no species of the tribe Pselaphini (Pselaphinae: Pselaphitae) have been known from southern China. Here we report the discovery of the genus Pselaphogenius Reitter, and describe three new representatives from Nanling Mountain Area, namely, P. buccalis sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThree new tmesiphorine species from the Nanling Mountains, Raphitreus septuacarinatus sp. nov., Tmesiphorus huapingensis sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper presents the result of a taxonomic study of the genus Tribasodites Jeannel and related genera (Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Batrisitae) from Nanling Mountain Area, with 55 species placed in 10 genera being recognized. Forty-one species are described as new, with illustrations of the habitus and diagnostic characters for reliable identifications: Anama angulata sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new subgenus of Euconnus Thomson, Chenzhilinus subgen. nov., is erected for E.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTriartiger jiangxinongda Yin & Du, sp. nov. (Clavigeritae: Clavigerini) is described from Meiling National Forest Park, Jiangxi, East China based on two male adults collected by a flight intercept trap, which represents the second known species of the genus from China's mainland.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Westwood complex of genera is represented in Hubei Province by four genera and eight species. Recent field work at Wanchaoshan Nature Reserve, Xingshan County revealed a small series of material belonging to this complex. In this paper, we describe and provide new faunistic data for Yin, Li & Zhao.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContinued collecting efforts at the Jiulong National Wetland Park, Zhejiang, East China revealed two additional species of the ant-loving beetle subfamily Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): Trisiniotus jiulong sp. nov. and Arthromelodes lianghongbini sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe C. lustricollis group of the scydmaenine genus Cephennodes Reitter was previously represented by three species distributed in northern Vietnam and China (Hong Kong and Guizhou). Here we describe a fourth member, Cephennodes gusu sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe extinct members of the ant-like stone beetle supertribe Mastigitae are among the best studied groups of all fossil Scydmaeninae, and their evolutionary history can be traced from the latest Albian to the earliest Cenomanian through Miocene/Oligocene, with seven extinct genera being described (summarized in Jaoszyski, 2016; Jaoszyski & Perkovsky, 2016; Jaoszyski et al., 2018; Ross, 20192022 (list of Burmese amber taxa)).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe myrmecophilous clavigerite Anaclasiger zhudaiae Yin & Huang is known from a single female collected in Guangdong, southern China. Here, I report the discovery of this species in Hunan, central China, associated with Nylanderia flaviabdominis (Wang) ants, which extends its range approximately 630 km northward from the type locality. The male is described for the first time, and the habitus and other major diagnostic characters are illustrated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrior to this study, no species of Raffray had been reported from Nanling, a vast biodiversity conservation area that spans five provinces in southern China. In this paper, three new species of the genus are described: (Guizhou, Guangxi), (Guizhou), and (Guangxi), suggesting that additional study on the diversity of this group in the area is required. These species are characterized, keyed, and compared to similar congeners, supplemented with illustrations of the habitus and other morphological characters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new species of the small pselaphine genus Tyrodes Raffray (Pselaphitae: Tyrini), T. tibialis sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new record of Centrophthalmus sinensis Raffray, 1904 from Suzhou, East China is provided, which is also the first Pselaphinae known to occur in this city, and the third pselaphine species from Jiangsu Province. A redescription of the species is given, aided with illustrations of the habitus and other morphological details.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis described from a series of overwintering individuals collected in decomposing wood at Jiulong National Wetland Park, East China. The new species is characterized and separated from related congeners by the unique form of the sexually dimorphic maxillary palpi, greatly swollen male metafemora, as well as by the shape of the genitalia of both sexes. A key to, and a distributional map of, species occurring in China and on the Ryukyu Islands, Japan is provided.
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