Megalinus oculatus ( Bordoni, 2002 )

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 : 50

Megalinus oculatus ( Bordoni, 2002)

Bordoni, 2002: 636 ( Lepidophallus ; Type locality: China, Taiwan, near Tsifeng, Nantou-Hsien; collected by Y. Shibata; 2200 m; 26.VII.1974); Bordoni, 2007b: 70 (catalog); Bordoni, 2008: 58 ( Megalinus ; species list of Megalinus ).

Type material: male, with labels as follows: “ HOLOTYPUS, Lepidophallus , oculatus n. sp., Bordoni det. 1997” / “( Near TSIFENC), Nantou-Hsien, TAIWAN (2200 m), July ‘26th,’ 1974, Coll. Y. Shibata ” / “ Lepidophallus , oculatus n. sp., Det. A. Bordoni 1997 ” / “ HOLOTYPUS ” ( CYS) .

Distribution. China (Taiwan).

Remarks. This species is unique and could be easily distinguished from its congeners by: 1) body small sized (6 mm); 2) body color of light brown; 3) head bearing polygonal reticulum; 4) punctures on dorsal side of head smaller and superficial, interspaces ca. four punctures’ diameter; 5) eyes distinctly large, over half of the temple length; 6) lateral margins of pronotum mostly subparalleled and slightly divergent at basal 1/3; 7) pronotum bearing short, shallow microstriae on dorsal side; 8) elytra quite wider than pronotum; 9) dorsal surface of abdomen bearing polygonal reticulum and sparsely distributed, small punctures, interspaces ca. four punctures’ genital segments, ventral view; I. spermetheca. Scale bars 0.30 mm.