Scaphidium longum Tang & Li, 2010

Tang, Liang & Li, Li-Zhen, 2010, On Scaphidium grande-complex (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae), ZooKeys 43 (43), pp. 65-78 : 70

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.43.447

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3788352

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B319E6AD-2948-454E-84DE-BC9B76FBB269

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Scaphidium longum Tang & Li
status

sp. nov.

Scaphidium longum Tang & Li View in CoL , sp. n.

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Figs 4, 5, 19–22

Type material. Holotype. China: Hainan: male, glued on a board with labels as follows: “ China, Hainan, Limu Shan , alt. 800m, 20.IV.2009, Zhu Xiao-Yu leg.” “ Holotype / Scaphidium longum / Tang & Li”[red handwritten label] ( SHNU) . Paratypes. 9 males and 10 females, alt. 800m, 20.IV.2009, Zhu Xiao-Yu leg. (SHNU)

BL: 7.5–9.9 mm, ED: 0.31–0.39 mm, PL/PW of male: 0.82–0.86, PL/PW of female: 0.77–0.80.

Similar to S. grande in most respects, but differs in the following characters: body form distinctly elongate; pronotum more convex; antennal club (Fig. 21) slenderer; male metasternum with larger setal patch; punctation of pronotum slightly finer and sparser; male profemora (Fig. 22) longer and slenderer, tubercles smaller; male protibiae (Fig. 22) longer and more incurved with a small subapical expansion and an apical angle on inner side; internal sac of aedeagus as in Figs 19, 20.

Diagnoses. This species can be easily distinguished from other related species by the elongate body.

Etymology. The Latin adjective “ longum ” refers to the elongate body and male legs of the new species.

Biological notes. All specimens were collected from a log covered with white fungus (Fig. 43). Territorial behavior of the male was observed by the collector, and it was described as follows: Each male occupies a small area on the fungi. Normally they highly raise bodies upon their long legs and they can shake their bodies up and down rapidly. Once, a small male was too close to a large one, the large male rushed to it immediately and the small male retreated quickly, without having body contact.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Scaphidium

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