Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) plutenkoi Glotov, 2014

Glotov, S. V., 2022, A New Species, New Synonymy, And Additional Records Of Gyrophaena (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocha- Rinae) From The Palaearctic Region, Zoodiversity 56 (5), pp. 373-384 : 379

Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) plutenkoi Glotov, 2014

Glotov, 2014: 183.

Comments. The original description of G. plutenkoi is based on a single holotype from “ Russia, Primorsky Kray ” collected by A. Plutenko ( Glotov, 2014). In the original description, the species was not assigned to any subgenus, which has caused some confusion and in the catalog of the Palearctic ( Schülke & Smetana, 2015), rendering it a “species incertae sedis”. According to external morphological features, including: the shape and proportions of the length and width of the head, which is strongly transverse, the size and nature of the convexity of the eyes, and the nature of the narrowing of the head behind the eyes, as well as the shape of aedeagus, the species can be placed in the subgenus Gyrophaena .