Silusa smetanai, Assing, 2011

Assing, V., 2011, Six new species and additional records of Aleocharinae from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1), pp. 291-310 : 292

Silusa smetanai PACE 1998

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d Holotype: " China, Sichuan, Gongga Shan, above Camp 3, 3050 m, 22.VII.1994, A. Smetana [C18] / Holotypus Silusa smetanai m., det. R. Pace 1996 / Silusa smetanai sp. n. det. R. Pace 1996" ( MHNG).

C o m m e n t: The original description is based on a single female from " China, Sichuan, Gongga Shan, above camp 3, 3050 m" ( PACE 1998a). Since Silusa species are reliably identified only based on the male sexual characters, the identity of S. smetanai remains doubtful. PACE (2004a) reported a male from Sichuan without illustrations of the sexual characters and without specifying the depository. This specimen was found neither in the Smetana collection nor at the MHNG. The holotype is of darker coloration and somewhat larger than the specimens of the following species.