Bolitogyrus kitawakii Smetana & Zheng, 2000

Cai, Yan-Peng, Zhao, Zong-Yi & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2015, Taxonomy of the genus Bolitogyrus Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Quediina) from China with description of seven new species, Zootaxa 3955 (4), pp. 451-486 : 475-484

Bolitogyrus kitawakii Smetana & Zheng, 2000

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Bolitogyrus kitawakii Smetana & Zheng, 2000a: 56 . (Type locality: China, NE Sichuan, Chengkou Xian, Daba Shan abv., Bashan); Smetana, 2000: 330 (key to species of Mainland China); Hu et al., 2011: 59, 62 (characters; China (Sichuan); key to species of Mainland China).

Material examined. CHINA: Shaanxi Province: 1 ♂, Ningshan Distr., Huodigou (33°30′N, 108°25′E), 1430 m, 19. VIII. 2007, coll. Hongliang Shi and Ganyan Yang.

Comments. The present specimen was found in Shaanxi. So far it was only reported from Sichuan Province. Since the specimen we collected looked much paler than it should be based on the original description, and its male aedeagus was very weakly sclerotized, it is very possible that the specimen had just emerged shortly before it was captured and killed. Otherwise it matched perfectly with the original description.

Distribution. Bolitogyrus kitawakii Smetana & Zheng is known from high mountains in the northeast of Sichuan Province: Micang and Daba at altitudes between 1600 m and 1900 m, and another high mountain in the south of Shaanxi Province: Qinling (Ningshan Distr., Huodigou) at an altitude of 1430 m. The examined specimen was collected in August.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Bolitogyrus kitawakii Smetana & Zheng: A, head (1.0 mm); B, pronotum (1.0 mm); C, elytra (1.0 mm); D, underside of paramere (0.2 mm); E, apical portion of median lobe, parameral view (0.2 mm). (Scale lengths in parentheses).