Neosclerus schuelkei ASSING 2011

Assing, V., 2013, A revision of Neosclerus CAMERON III. Two new species from India and Laos, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1549-1559 : 1552

Neosclerus schuelkei ASSING 2011

( Fig. 8 , Map 2 )

Material examined Laos: 6 exs., Phongsaly province, Phongsaly env., 21°41 -42'N, 102°06 -08'E, ca. 1500 m, sifted, 28.V.-20.VI.2003, leg. Pacholátko ( NHMB, cAss) ; 5 exs., Xieng Khouang province, 30 km NE Phonsavan, Phou Sane mountain , 19°37 -38'N, 103°20'E, 1400-1500 m, 10.-30.V.2009, leg. Kraus ( NHMB, cAss) .

Comment: This species was previously known only from the type locality in the southwest of the Chinese province Yunnan ( ASSING 2011a). The aedeagus of one of the males from Laos is illustrated in Fig. 8 . The currently known distribution is illustrated in Map 2 .

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Map 2: Distributions of Neosclerus praeacutus ASSING (filled triangles: male-based records; open triangles: female-based records) and N. schuelkei ASSING (circles) in South Asia.

Figs 1-8: Neosclerus macer nov.sp. (1-7) and N. schuelkei ASSING (8): (1) forebody; (2) male sternite VII; (3) male sternite VIII in ventral view; (4) anterior carinae of male sternite VIII in ventral view; (5) male sternite VIII in lateral view; (6, 8) aedeagus in lateral view; (7) apical portion of aedeagus in ventral view. Scale bars: 1: 0.5 mm; 2-3, 5: 0.2 mm; 4, 6-8: 0.1 mm.