Horaeomorphus sp.

Zhou, De-Yao, Zhang, Su-Jiong & Li, Li-Zhen, 2016, Contributions to the knowledge of the genus Horaeomorphus Schaufuss (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) in mainland China, ZooKeys 572, pp. 51-70 : 52-54

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.572.7474

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2427CCB8-B274-4D96-83DE-391125C5F8BC

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CA86E8B9-F924-B7F4-ACDE-C73222914265

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scientific name

Horaeomorphus sp.
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Horaeomorphus sp. View in CoL Figs 1B, 6A, 6F

Material examined.

3 ♀♀, labeled 'China: Guangxi Prov., Shangsi County [上思县], Shiwandashan [十万大山], alt. 300-400m, 23.iv.2011, Peng, Zhai &Zhu leg.'.

Description.

Body (Fig. 1B) large, strongly convex, BL 2.48-2.51 mm; HL 0.37-0.38 mm; HW 0.50 mm; antennae (Fig. 6A) relatively short, AnL 0.99 mm; relative lengths of antennomeres: 1.0: 0.8: 1.2: 1.0: 1.0: 0.9: 0.9: 0.9: 1.0: 1.0: 2.2; PL 0.74-0.76 mm; PWm 0.59-0.61 mm; PWb 0.46-0.47 mm; EL 1.35-1.39 mm; EW 1.00-1.03 mm; EI 1.30-1.38.

Spermatheca (Fig. 6F) elongate, SpL 0.13mm; with longitudinal groove at middle.

Comments.

These females have strongly convex and broadened elytra (EI 1.30-1.38), distance between humeral calli wider than the width of the pronotum at base, large and deep punctures sharply delimited from background in the center of pronotal disc and anterior third of elytra. The shape of the spermatheca is similar to that of Horaeomorphus caverniventris Jałoszyński, 2006 (Malaysia: Pahang), but females of the Malaysian species are larger (2.79-3.12 mm). Therefore the three specimens almost certainly belong to a new species, but a male must be found for formal description.

Distribution.

Southern China: Guangxi.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae