Borolinus minutus ( Laporte, 1840 )

Wu, Jie & Zhou, Hong-zhang, 2006, Description Of A New Species Of Borolinus Bernhauer (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae) From Yunnan, China, With Two New Records From Southern China, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (2), pp. 215-223 : 218-220

Borolinus minutus ( Laporte, 1840)

( Figs. 30-38 )

Leptochirus minutus Laporte, 1840: 186 (type locality: Java); Fauvel, 1878: 186; Fauvel, 1879: 72; Fauvel, 1886: 144; Fauvel, 1905: 77; Cameron, 1936: 26.

Priochirus minutus Heller, 1898: 8 ; Cameron, 1930a: 160.

Borolinus minutus Bernhauer, 1903: 134 ; Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 15; Bernhauer, 1922: 221; Cameron, 1928: 94; Bernhauer, 1928: 1; Wendeler, 1928: 117; Cameron, 1930: 94; Cameron, 1931: 355; Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1001; Cameron, 1937: 84; Paulian, 1941: 132; Cameron, 1949: 456; Scheerpeltz, 1965: 98; Abdullah & Qadri, 1970: 116; Coiffait, 1981: 332; Frank, 1982: 6; Biswas & Biswas, 1985: 142; Herman, 2001: 1095.

Leptochirus bispinus Erichson, 1840: 827 (type locality: Java); Fauvel, 1878: 186 (synonym of minutus ); Fauvel, 1905: 77; Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 15; Cameron, 1930: 94; Scheerpeltz, 1965: 98; Herman, 2001: 1096.

Leptochirus cruentus Fauvel, 1895:181 (variety of minutus ; type locality: Malacca; Singapore; Sumatra; Borneo); Heller, 1898: 8; Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 15 (synonym of minutus ); Cameron, 1921: 362, 399; Cameron, 1928: 94; Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1001; Herman, 2001: 1096.

Leptochirus inermis Fauvel, 1902: 10 (variety of minutus ; type locality: Sumatra: Palembang); Bernbauer & Schubert, 1910: 15 (synonym of minutus ); Herman, 2001: 1096.

Material examined. – 8 males, 10 females, China, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Mengla , 940 m, 19 Feb.2004, Jie Wu & Yongping Lu coll.( IOZ-CAS) ; 1 male, 5 females, China, Guangxi, Nanping, Jiangpo , 300 m, 10 Aug.2004, Jie Wu coll.( IOZ-CAS) ; 1 female, SUMATRA: Fort de Kock , 920 m, Jun.1922, Scheerpeltz ex coll. ( NMW) ; 1 male, SUMATRA: Mentawei Island , Klima ex coll.( NMW) .

Diagnosis. – Body black. This species is similar to B. sikkimensis , but may be distinguished by smaller body size, more protruding inner lateral teeth (their apex exceeding 2/3 length of mandibles viewed from above), and each mandible with two inner teeth.

Measurements. – Body length: 8-10 mm; HL: 0.66 mm; HW: 1.46 mm; PL: 1.59 mm; PW: 1.93 mm; EL: 1.84 mm; EW: 2.09 mm.

Distribution. – China (Yunnan; Guangxi; Taiwan), India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Burma, Singapore, Malaysia (Borneo), Philippines, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Halmahera, Irian Jaya), New Zealand.

Figures

Figs. 30-38. Borolinus minutus: 30, head and pronotum in dorsal view; 31, aedeagus in dorsal view; 32, aedeagus in lateral view; 33, 9th abdominal sternite of male; 34, left half of 9th abdominal sternite of female; 35, mandibles; 36, 9th and 10th abdominal tergites of male; 37, labrum; 38, mentum. Scale bars: Figs. 30, 35 = 1 mm; Figs. 31-34, 36-38 = 0.25 mm.