Five new species of Nazeris Fauvel in Guangxi, China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae)
Author
Hu, Jia-Yao
Author
Qiao, Yu-Jia
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-01-08
4543
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431
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journal article
27696
10.11646/zootaxa.4543.3.8
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1175-5326
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Nazeris yanzhuqii
Hu & Qiao
,
sp. n.
(Figs 6, 35–39)
Type material.
Holotype
:
CHINA
:
male, ‘
China
:
Guangxi
Prov.
,
Xing'an County
,
Mao'ershan
N. R., alt.
2000– 2140 m
,
9–11.VII.2011
,
Chen
,
Peng
,
Ma
&
Zhu
leg.’ (SNUC).
Paratypes
:
10 males
,
2 females
, same data as holotype
;
5 males
,
5 females
, same data, except ‘
10.VII.2011
,
Zhong Peng
leg.
’;
1 male
,
4 females
, same data, except ‘
2100 m
,
10.VII.2011
, Tang &
He
leg.
’;
1 male
,
1 female
, same data, except ‘
2100 m
,
9–10.VII.2011
,
Tang L.
&
He
W.-J. leg
.’;
3 females
, same data, except ‘
2100 m
,
10.VII.2011
,
Tang L.
&
He
W.-J. leg
.’;
2 males
,
1 female
, same data, except ‘
2000 m
,
11.VII.2011
, Tang &
He
leg.
’;
4 males
,
11 females
, same data, except ‘
2000– 2100 m
,
22.VII.2012
, Hu &
Song
leg.
’;
3 males
,
3 females
, same data, except ‘
1950–2000 m
,
23.VII.2012
, Hu &
Song
leg.
’;
8 males
,
6 females
, same data, except ‘
25°52'27''N
,
110°24'44''E
, beech forest, mixed leaf litter, humus, sifted,
1940 m
,
29.VII.2014
,
Peng
,
Song
,
Yu
&
Yan
leg.
’.
Description.
Body length
4.5–5.6 mm
; forebody length
2.5–2.9 mm
.
Body (Fig. 6) dark brown; antennae and legs yellowish brown.
Head (
Fig. 35
) 0.95–0.99 times as long as wide; punctation dense and coarse, non-umbilicate, interstices lacking microsculpture; postocular portion approximately twice as long as eye length.
Pronotum (
Fig. 35
) 1.11–1.15 times as long as wide, 0.92–0.97 times as long and 0.78–0.83 times as broad as head; punctation as dense and as coarse as that of head; midline with very narrow or without impunctate elevation in posteriorly half; interstices lacking microsculpture.
Elytra (
Fig. 35
) 0.68–0.74 times as long as wide, 0.58–0.63 times as long and 0.95–1.00 times as broad as pronotum; punctation as dense and slightly finer than that of pronotum; interstices lacking microsculpture.
Abdomen with punctation dense and rather coarse on tergites III–V, dense and less coarse on tergite VI, moderately dense and fine on tergites VII–VIII; interstices lacking microsculpture.
Male
. Sternite VII (
Fig. 36
) with posterior margin truncate at middle. Sternite VIII (
Fig. 37
) with triangular posterior excision. Aedeagus (
Figs 38, 39
) well sclerotized; ventral process wide, with parallel sides, with narrowly incised apex in ventral view, and with pair of small triangular basal laminae ventrally; dorso-lateral apophyses widened near middle in ventral view, extending beyond apex of ventral process.
Distribution and habitat data.
The species is known only from Mao'ershan in northeast
Guangxi
. The specimen was collected by sifting leaf litter at altitudes of
1940–2140 m
.
Comparative notes.
This species is most similar to
N. alatus
Hu & Li (Hu & Li 2017
: 337,
Figs 15–19
) in general appearance and aedeagal characters, but can be separated by the impunctate elevation of the pronotum very narrow or absent (
Fig. 35
), by the longer and wider ventral process of the aedeagus, with much smaller basal laminae (
Fig. 38
), and by the wider dorso-lateral apophyses of aedeagus (
Figs 38, 39
).
Etymology.
The specific epithet is dedicated to Zhu-Qi Yan, who collected some of the
type
specimens.