Homalota Mannerheim, 1830

Cao, Dandan, Wei, Jianrong, Liu, Shuwen, Zhao, Zhengping, Wang, Liping & Ji, Baozhong, 2018, A new species of Homalota Mannerheim, 1830 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Nanjing, China, Zootaxa 4444 (3), pp. 327-332 : 328

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9C9D7C03-3A3B-4B8F-AF53-3CCD997970D9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5972854

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039E87D5-D71F-FF9B-C8F8-FE43FEF4FCFD

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Plazi

scientific name

Homalota Mannerheim, 1830
status

 

Genus Homalota Mannerheim, 1830 View in CoL

Type species: Aleochara plana Gyllenhal, 1810 .

Diagnosis: Homalota is distinguished by the following combination of characters: 1) body strongly to moderately flattened dorsoventrally, parallel-sided; 2) head almost as wide as pronotum; 3) eye moderate in siZe, slightly protruding outwards; 4) infraorbital carina well developed, complete; 5) labial palpus with two palpomeres, ligula bifid in apical half; 6) scutellum posteromedially round; 7) tarsal formula 4-4-5, the first metatarsomere elongate or usually shorter ( Yang, 1982); 8) mesocoXae narrowly separated, isthmus present, less than about half of mesocoXae length; 9) posterior margin of tergite VIII with processes in males (most species) or in both seXes (some species) ( Kim & Ahn, 2014).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

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