Three new species of Pseudophanias Raffray from Japan and Taiwan Island, and synonymy of Chandleriella Hlavac with Pseudophanias (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) Author Inoue, Shota Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819 - 0395, Japan & The Kyushu University Museum, Fukuoka 812 - 8581, Japan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7005-6531 pselaphineman@gmail.com Author Nomura, Shuhei Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4 - 1 - 1, Amakubo, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305 - 0005, Japan Author Yin, Zi-Wei Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, China text ZooKeys 2020 987 135 156 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.987.53648 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.987.53648 1313-2970-987-135 861F9C146E6D4222A41FFC56F978C2E8 A304608B226C5889BE8AF26E618669A3 Pseudophanias spinitarsis Yin, Coulon & Bekchiev, 2015 Pseudophanias spinitarsis Yin, Coulon & Bekchiev, 2015: 447. Diagnosis. This species is readily distinguished from other members of Pseudophanias by a combination of the following character states: Body length over 3 mm; antennal club formed by apical 4 antennomeres; antennomeres each distinctly elongate; antennomeres 8 angularly expanded laterally, 9 triangularly expanded in male; pronotal disc with conical spine; profemora concave at basal third, with bunch of thick setae; protarsomeres 2 and 3, and mesotarsomere 2 each spinose; aedeagus symmetrical, with median lobe greatly extended ventrally (Yin, Coulon and Bekchiev 2015).