Alevonota japonica ( CAMERON , 1933)

Assing, Volker, 2017, A revision of the Alevonota species of the Palaearctic region. II. A new species from Cyprus and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (1), pp. 229-234 : 233

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0253-116X

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scientific name

Alevonota japonica ( CAMERON , 1933)
status

 

Alevonota japonica ( CAMERON, 1933) ( Figs 5-13)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d Japan: 13, 2♀♀, Hokkaido, Nopporo Forest Park, 24.V. & 5.VI.2008, leg. Lackner (cAss).

C o m m e n t: This species was originally described and subsequently recorded only from Honshu ( ASSING 2002, CAMERON 1933). The above specimens from Hokkaido are somewhat darker in coloration than the material seen from Honshu, but otherwise no significant differences were observed. Interestingly, unlike other Alevonota species , A. japonica is characterized by a sexual dimorphism of the head. In the male, the head is transverse, approximately 1.1 times as wide as long, and the eyes are larger, approximately as long as the postocular region from the posterior margin of the eye to the posterior constriction of the head, and more bulging. For illustrations of the external and sexual characters of the material from Hokkaido see Figs 5-13.

ASSING V. (2002): A taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of Amarochara THOMSON. I. The species of the Holarctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Oxypodini). - Beitrage zur Entomologie, Keltern 52 (1): 111 - 204.

CAMERON M. (1933): New species of Staphylinidae (Col.) from Japan. - The Entomogist's Monthly Magazine 69: 208 - 219.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Alevonota