Pselaphodes symmetricus Huang & Yin, 2020

Huang, Meng-Chi & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2020, Validation of five Pselaphodes species names in Huang & Yin (2019): The Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) of Nepal, Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (1), pp. 241-242 : 242

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.35929/RSZ.0016

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6983553

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FF3D36-FFA3-FFF2-FCB8-FEC2CCE2384A

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scientific name

Pselaphodes symmetricus Huang & Yin
status

sp. nov.

Pselaphodes symmetricus Huang & Yin View in CoL , sp. nov.

Type material (3 ex.): Holotype; MHNG- ENTO-44079 ; ♂; NEPAL, “NEPAL: distr. Kathmandu: Phulcoki , 2500 m, 30.IV.84, Löbl – Smetana ” ( MHNG) . – Paratypes; MHNG-ENTO-44080 ; 1 ♀; NEPAL, same label data as holotype . – MHNG-ENTO-44081 ; 1 ♂; NEPAL, “NEPAL (Prov. Bagmati), Gul Bhanjyang , 2600 m, 6.IV.81, Löbl & Smetana ” (both paratypes in MHNG) .

Diagnosis: Male. Length 3.01-3.15 mm. Antennomeres 9 slightly concave on mesal surface, antennomeres 10 with large projection at base. Metaventral processes moderately long, with pair of small triangular projection in addition to elongate processes. Protrochanters with slender ventral spine, profemora with blunt ventral spine, protibiae with large spine at apex; mesotrochanters with acute ventral spine, mesotibiae with small projection at apex. Median lobe of aedeagus symmetric, narrowed at apex; parameres short and symmetric. Female. May be identified only when associated with male.

Description and figures: Huang & Yin, 2019: 191; figs 19B, 21.

MHNG

Switzerland, Geneva, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

MHNG

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Pselaphodes

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