Megalinus pandarum (Bordoni, 2003)

ZHOU, YU-LINGZI, BORDONI, ARNALDO & ZHOU, HONG-ZHANG, 2013, Taxonomy of the genus Megalinus Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Xantholinini) and seven new species from China, Zootaxa 3727 (1), pp. 1-66 : 53

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3727.1.1

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scientific name

Megalinus pandarum (Bordoni, 2003)
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Bordoni, 2003a: 60 ( Lepidophallus ; Type locality: China, Sichuan Prov., Baoxing Co., Feng Tong Zhai, km post. 29 (panda reserve); Bordoni, 2007b: 70 (catalog); Bordoni, 2008: 58 ( Megalinus ; species list of Megalinus ).

Type material: male, with labels as follows: “ HOLOTYPUS, Lepidophallus , pandarum sp. n., Bordoni det. 2002” / “ XANTHOLININI ,? genus, det. Newton 2000 ” / “‘ CHINA, Sichuan Prov.,’ Bao, ‘xing Co.,’ ca Feng Tongzhai, xm. post 29 (panda preserve), Margin of Dashui Gou (stream)” / “ 1400m elev. 13.viii.1995 R.E., ‘Roughley,’ Xie Weiping & Yu Pei, Yu colls.” ( FMNH) .

Distribution. China (Sichuan).

Remarks. This species is unique and could be easily distinguished from its congeners by: 1) body large sized (9 mm) and dark brown, last abdominal segment yellowish; 2) head densely punctate, interspaces between punctures ca. puncture diameter, except median longitudinal region of 0.1 mm width impunctate; 3) pronotum elongate shaped, with two admedian rows and 3–4 lateral rows of punctures; 4) elytra dense punctate, interspaces between puncture row less than puncture diameter; 5) mesoscutellum bearing distinct transverse microstriae; 6) abdominal segments bearing mixed microsculpture of both isodiameter mesh and transverse microstriae; 7) abdominal segments densely punctate, interspaces between punctures 1–2 punctures’ diameter; 8) unique male sternite IX; 9) median lobe of aedeagus egg-like; inner sac bag-shaped, dark colored, and without obvious spines.

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Megalinus

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