Pella zhoui MARUYAMA, 2006

Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lomechusini from the Palaearctic region, primarily from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2), pp. 243-262 : 256

Pella zhoui MARUYAMA, 2006

( Figs 61–64 )

Material examined: China: Qinghai: 6 exs., Daban Shan , 62 km NNW Honggum, 36°51'N, 102°37'E, 2275 m, stream valley with mixed forest, litter and moss sifted, 26.VI.2011, leg. Wrase (cSch, cAss) ; 1 ex., same data, but 2230–2250 m, leg. Schülke (cSch) ; 1 ex., same data, but 2350 m, leg. Schülke (cSch) .

Comment: Pella zhoui was previously recorded from the Chinese province Beijing and from the Russian Far East ( MARUYAMA 2006). The above specimens were collected together with P. cooterorum and P. jureceki . Their primary sexual characters are illustrated in Figs 61–64 .

Figures

Figs 46–64: Pella reuteri (46–47), P. lugens from Gansu (48–49), P. cooterorum from Qinghai (50–51, 54), Gansu (55), Yunnan: Dongchuan env. (52, 56), and Yunnan: Kunming env. (53, 57), P. jureceki from Gansu (58–60), and P. zhoui from Qinghai (61–64): median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (46–53, 58–59, 61–62); spermatheca (54–57, 60, 63–64). Scale bars: 0.2 mm.