Apecholinus fraternus (Fairmaire, 1891)

Smetana, Aleš & Hu, Fang-Shuo, 2019, The genera Agelosus Sharp, 1889 and Apecholinus Bernhauer, 1933 in Taiwan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Staphylinina), Zootaxa 4638 (3), pp. 379-388 : 383

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.4

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/177D8786-FFDE-907B-52B9-FF4B70D06C78

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scientific name

Apecholinus fraternus (Fairmaire, 1891)
status

 

Apecholinus fraternus (Fairmaire, 1891) View in CoL

( Figs 6–10 View FIGURES 1–7 View FIGURES 8–15 , 20, 24 View FIGURES 19–24 )

fraternus Fairmaire, 1891 : ccxii (description; Ocypus ); Smetana, 2018:2322 (entire bibliography; synonymy; redescription)

All pertinent information about the species may be found in Smetana (2018). Male and female sexual characters are illustrated in Figs 6–10 View FIGURES 1–7 View FIGURES 8–15 and the habitus is in Fig. 20 View FIGURES 19–24 .The species is at present known from mainland China and from Taiwan. It is the only Taiwanese species of the genus lacking tomentose spots on the body, and to have functional wings.

Material studied. TAIWAN:: “ 22-X-2017 ♀ TAIWAN: Chiayi County Nanxi Forest road 11.2 k B.H. Ho leg.) / Fang-Shuo collection”, 1 spec. ( FSHC) ; Taiwan: Hualien, provincial Highway 8 [in Chinese], 140.5~141 K (8A-3) 12.VI.2010, leg. W.P. Chan ”, 1 spec. ( TARI) ; TAIWAN: Nantou County, Sun Link Forest Recreation Area [in Chinese] (23.6355088, 120.7907667) C.R. Chen leg., / Fang-Shuo collection”, 2 spec. ( CNC, FSHC) GoogleMaps ; “ Taiwan: Nantou Tatachia , Tataka [in Chinese] 06–12.V.2008, leg. C.-S. Tung ”, 1 spec. ( TARI) ; “ 13-V-1014 TAIWAN: Nantou Co., Ren’ai Township Beidongyan Mt . F.S. Huang leg. / Fang-Shuo collection”, 1 spec. ( FSHC) ; “order Coleoptera Nan- tou, Huisun Forest Area [in Chinese], Pitfall Trap 0-3 1998 (y) 4.24, 4456”, 1 spec. ( NCHU) ; same, Pitfall trap E-3, 1999 (y) 8-2, 6697”, 1 spec. ( NCHU) ; same, Pitfall Trap 9-6, 1999 (y) 8.7. 7253”, 1 spec. ( NCHU) ; same. Pifall Trap G-2 1999 (y) 8.2, 6121”, 1 spec. ( NCHU) ; “ 03-VIII-2018 / TAIWAN: Taichung City, Daxue mt. Y.H. Ho leg. / Fang- Shuo collection”, 1 spec. ( FSHC) ; “ 18.VII.2014 TAIWAN: Taichung City, Anmashan 27k (alt. 1700m) Y. Hsiao leg. / Fang-Shuo collection”, 1 spec. ( FSHC) ; “ Lantashan FORMOSA V.1936 col. Y. Miwa ”, 1 spec. ( TARI) .

Geographical distribution. Agelosus fraternus is at present known from mainland China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan) and from Taiwan (Chiayi, Hualien, Nantou and Taichung counties).

Bionomics. Little is known about the collecting circumstances of the Taiwanese specimens, except that some were taken from pitfall traps, but nothing is known about the habitat the traps were set in. The specimen from Sun Link Sea Forest, collected by C. R. Chen was taken from under a rock near a creek. Apecholinus imitator was collected in the same locality by the same collector.

TARI

Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

NCHU

National Chung Hsing University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Apecholinus

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