Orphnebius (Deroleptus) spoliatus ASSING, 2016

Assing, Volker, 2019, On the Lomechusini fauna of the Palaearctic and Oriental regions. XXVI. New species, a new synonymy, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 69 (1), pp. 33-70 : 49

Orphnebius (Deroleptus) spoliatus ASSING, 2016

Material examined: China: 116 exs., N-Sichuan, Xiao- Zhaizi National Nature Reserve , 7 km W Qingpianxiang, Xiaozhaizi, 32°01'N, 103°56'E, 1560–1700 m, flight interception trap, 27.VI.–1.VII.2017, leg. Kabátek et al. ( MMB, cAss) .

The original description is based on 16 specimens from the type locality in Northeast Laos ( ASSING 2016b). The material from Sichuan is distinguished from the type specimens by significantly darker coloration. In the material from Sichuan , the legs are more or less uniformly yellowish, the basal three antennomeres are yellowishred to reddish, and the humeral portions of the elytra are more or less distinctly and more or less extensively yellowish, whereas in the type material the profemora and the apical halves of the meso- and metafemora are blackish, the tibiae are brown to blackish-brown, the antennae are more or less uniformly blackish with antennomeres II and III slightly paler at most, and the elytra are uniformly blackish. No significant differences were found, however, in the shapes of the primary sexual characters, suggesting that the populations from Sichuan and Laos are conspecific and that the observed pronounced differences are an expression of remarkable intraspecific variation of coloration .

The specimens from Sichuan represent the first record of this species from China.