Platydracus brachycerus, Smetana & Davies, 2000

Zhou, Cheng-Lin, Zhao, Qing-Hao & Tang, Liang, 2024, A taxonomic study of the Platydracus brachycerus group with descriptions of three new species from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Staphylininae), Zootaxa 5399 (5), pp. 505-516 : 506

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.5.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7B25F2AB-A468-4083-9BD0-75B2CD41E4CF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10528803

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Platydracus brachycerus
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Platydracus brachycerus View in CoL group

The presumably termitophilous Platydracus brachycerus group can be defined by the following characters: body slender, head hardly dilated posteriad, pronotum with lateral sides more or less parallel; punctation of entire body relatively coarse and sparse, pubescence relatively sparse; maxillary and labial palpi stout; antennomeres 4–11 or 5–11 with pubescence; tarsomere 5 with apical projection (except Platydracus donnyi Rougemont, 2015 ) ( Fig. 25 View FIGURES 25–27 ); median portion of male sternite VII with large depression bearing numerous long setae.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Platydracus

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