Atheta Athetini Oroekklina Bolitocharina Homalotini ( SCHÜLKE & SMETANA 2015 ) Oroekklina Oroekklina Oroekklina Bellatheta Oroekklina Oroekklina Bellatheta Bellatheta New species, synonymies, combinations, and records of micropterous Athetini from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) Assing, Volker Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 2021 2021-06-30 71 1 87 101   Checklist of  Bellathetaspeciesrecorded from China    Athetaof the Athetini. Nevertheless,  Oroekklinawas subsequently placed in the subtribe Bolitocharinaof the tribe Homalotini ( SCHÜLKE & SMETANA 2015). Three additional species were described in, or transferred to,  Oroekklinaby ASSING (2002, 2009) and PACE (2004), all of them micropterous and from China( Sichuanand Yunnanprovinces). A revision of all the species previously included in  Oroekklina, including the typespecies, revealed that the tarsal formula is not 4, 4, 5 as indicated in the original description, but 4, 5, 5. Thus, no principal difference remains distinguishing  Oroekklinafrom  Bellatheta, whose monophyly is constituted particularly by the synapomorpic structure of the median lobe of the aedeagus (ventral process deeply bifid), a condition also shared by the species previously in  Oroekklina. As a consequence,  Oroekklinais placed in synonymy with the senior name  Bellatheta, resulting in four new combinations (see checklist below).   Includingthe new species described below, 15 species of  Bellatheta, seven of them micropterous, are currently known from China. Themicropterous representatives of the genus are distributed in West China, from Qinghaiand Gansuin the north to Yunnanin the south ( Map 1), with four of the species locally endemic in Yunnan, two in Sichuan, and one in Qilian Shan( Qinghai, Gansu).  The species are listed alphabetically. Species recorded from Taiwanare not included. The literature references are abbreviated as follows: A02 = ASSING (2002); A05 = ASSING (2009); A09 = ASSING (2009); A11 = ASSING (2011); App = ASSING (present paper); P93 = PACE (1993); P98a = PACE (1998a); P99 = PACE (1999); P04 = PACE (2004); P11a = PACE (2011a). Micropterous species are marked with a “+”. Species of doubtful generic assignment are marked with an asterisk (“*”). Including China West The 2 89 1 Qinghai [956,1396,1001,1025] Qilian Shan China Qinghai 2 89 1 Qinghai