Taxonomy of the subgenus Euleptarthrus Jakobson (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Osoriinae, Priochirus) of China with descriptions of three new species
Author
Wu, Jie
Author
Zhou, Hong-Zhang
text
Zootaxa
2013
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2
165
175
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3613.2.4
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Priochirus
(
Euleptarthrus
)
subbrevicornis
Bernhauer, 1934
(
Figs. 11, 12
)
Priochirus
(
Leptarthrus
)
subbrevicornis
Bernhauer, 1934: 1
Priochirus
(
Euleptarthrus
)
subbrevicornis
Wu and Zhou, 2007: 91, 96.
Type
material.
Syntypes
:
CHINA
: Sichuan:
3, Ƥ, “
CHINA
: Mittel Szechuan, Hwayinshan,
1600 m
, Reitter”, “
subbrevicornis
Bernh. Cotypus
Leptarthrus
”, “Chicago NHMus M. Bernhauer Collections” (FMHN).
Diagnosis.
Body size small (9.0–
9.5 mm
), body color red-brown. Head transverse (
Fig. 11
), frontal impression on head distinctly narrowed frontad, anterior border about 1/5 times as long as head; median sulcus narrowed posteriorly with lateral margins fused before posterior margin of head, vertex with two indistinct punctures at sides of median sulcus. Lateral cephalic teeth and mandibles similar to
P.
(
E.
)
chinensis
. Mentum similar to
P.
(
E.
)
chinensis
but with anterior margin less depressed medially, median denticle less emarginate apically and narrower (
Fig. 12
). Antenna with 3rd segment short, only 2 times as long as 2nd, 10th weakly transverse, 11th elongate, about 2 times as long as 10th.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality in Sichuan, at elevation of
1600 m
.