Rugilus (Rugilus) dabaicus ASSING, 2012

Assing, Volker, 2015, A revision of Palaearctic and Oriental Rugilus. V. Two new species from China and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1), pp. 73-82 : 75

Rugilus (Rugilus) dabaicus ASSING, 2012

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d China: S h a a n x i 833, 10♀♀, Qinling Shan, 33°52'N, 108°59'E, 2000-2600 m, sifted, 15.V.2011, leg. Grebennikov (CAS, cSme, cAss).

C o m m e n t: Rugilus dabaicus was previously known only from the Daba Shan in western Hubei ( ASSING 2012a, 2012b). The aedeagi of the above males are distinguished from those of the three type males recorded from the Daba Shan by a slightly differently shaped ventral process, but these differences are interpreted as intraspecific rather than interspecific variation. Differences in the external and male secondary structures were not found and some variation of the shape of the ventral process has been observed also in several other species of the subgenus recorded from China ( ASSING 2012a). The above material was collected together with R. reticulatus .