Nepalota, PACE, 1987

Assing, Volker, 2015, On the Nepalota fauna of China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Athetini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1), pp. 207-248 : 209

The Nepalota fauna of China

Including the new species described below and considering five new synonymies, Nepalota is currently represented in China exclusive of Taiwan by twenty valid species, one of them of doubtful identity. The diversity is greatest in Yunnan (fourteen species, seven of them exclusive), followed by Hubei (five species, three exclusive), Sichuan (four species, one exclusive), Gansu and Shaanxi (three species each), Guangdong (two species), Zhejiang, Chongqing, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guizhou (one species each), and Beijing (one doubtful species). Disregarding the doubtful N. pernitida , only two species, N. martensi and N. franzi , are not exclusive to China, their vast distributions ranging from Nepal to southern Yunnan and Gansu. The remaining species have been recorded solely from China. While some of them are rather common and widespread, several species are known only from their respective type localities or their immediate vicinity.

Based on personal observations and on the material examined, Nepalota species usually inhabit the leaf litter layer of various montane forest and shrub habitats. The altitudes range from 1200 to 3800 m.