taxonID	type	description	language	source
AE3B3C84EFA755B08545AD56BF0DFB41.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	en	Chen, Zhi-Teng, Jiang, Chao (2025): First record of the subfamily Geracinae Brindle, 1971 and genus Pseudovostox Borelli, 1926 (Dermaptera, Spongiphoridae) in China, with a description of a new species. ZooKeys 1254: 355-366, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1254.162412
AE3B3C84EFA755B08545AD56BF0DFB41.taxon	description	Description. Male. Length. Body length (excluding forceps) 4.5 – 5 mm, forceps length 0.5 – 0.8 mm. Coloration. Head and pronotum dark brown, latter with white posterolateral sides (Fig. 1 A – C); antennae yellow at base, pale brown apically. Tegmina dark brown, with a pale transverse stripe near shoulder, the stripe gradually narrowed mediad (Fig. 1 A). Scales of hind wings entirely white. Abdomen dark brown; legs and forceps brown (Fig. 1 A). Head. Head longer than wide, tumid; postfrontal and coronal sutures indistinct; hind margin truncate (Fig. 1 A – C). Eyes slightly shorter than post-ocular area. Antenna 12 - segmented; basal segment about half the length of distance between antennal bases; second segment as long as wide; third segment three times as long as wide; fourth segment two times as long as wide; fifth and subsequent segments slightly longer than third. Thorax. Pronotum as broad as long, slightly widened posteriorly; anterior margin slightly rounded, lateral and posterior margins rounded; prozona convex and metazona depressed; median sulcus distinct (Fig. 1 A – C). Tegmina well-developed, twice as long as pronotum, pubescent and impunctate; scales of hind wings near as long as one-third length of pronotum (Fig. 1 A). Legs with strong femora, thin tibiae and tarsi, and developed tarsal arolia between claws; hind tarsi with first segment 1.5 times longer than combined length of segments 2 – 3, second segment near as long as wide, third segment twice as long as second (Fig. 1 A). Abdomen. Abdomen fusiform, convex, widest at segments 6 – 7, cuticle pubescent and impunctate (Fig. 1 A). Ultimate tergite transverse, sloping and narrowed posteriad; posterior margin concave medially, with subtriangular processes above base of each branch of forceps (Fig. 2 A). Forceps short, contiguous, pubescent, mostly straight, upcurved, apically tapering and gently hooked mediad; inner margins denticulate (Fig. 2 A, B). Penultimate sternite transverse, 1.5 times wider than long, posterior margin mostly truncate; basolateral projections short, near one-fifth of sternal length (Fig. 2 C). Genitalia. Genitalia slender (Fig. 3 A – D); paramere narrowed basally, widened medially, with rounded anterior margin; external paramere slender, widened subapically, apex narrowed, obtuse; virga thick; inner structure complicated, with two semicircular basal sclerites and a toothed apical sclerite. Genitalia of male paratype slightly varied in shape of external parameral apex and inner sclerite (Fig. 4 A, B). Female. Body length without forceps 4.5 – 6 mm, length of forceps 0.5 – 0.8 mm. Body structures and coloration identical to male holotype; tergites and sternites longer than male (Fig. 5 A, B). Penultimate sternite subquadrate, posterior margin rounded; basolateral projections very short, about 1 / 11 of sternal length (Fig. 5 C). Genitalia with two dark, oval sclerites (Fig. 5 B).	en	Chen, Zhi-Teng, Jiang, Chao (2025): First record of the subfamily Geracinae Brindle, 1971 and genus Pseudovostox Borelli, 1926 (Dermaptera, Spongiphoridae) in China, with a description of a new species. ZooKeys 1254: 355-366, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1254.162412
AE3B3C84EFA755B08545AD56BF0DFB41.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The new species is named after Guizhou Province, the type locality.	en	Chen, Zhi-Teng, Jiang, Chao (2025): First record of the subfamily Geracinae Brindle, 1971 and genus Pseudovostox Borelli, 1926 (Dermaptera, Spongiphoridae) in China, with a description of a new species. ZooKeys 1254: 355-366, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1254.162412
AE3B3C84EFA755B08545AD56BF0DFB41.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The species is currently known only from Guizhou Province of southwest China (Fig. 6).	en	Chen, Zhi-Teng, Jiang, Chao (2025): First record of the subfamily Geracinae Brindle, 1971 and genus Pseudovostox Borelli, 1926 (Dermaptera, Spongiphoridae) in China, with a description of a new species. ZooKeys 1254: 355-366, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1254.162412
