Revision of the subgenus Aleochara Gravenhorst of the parasitoid rove beetle genus Aleochara Gravenhorst of Japan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) Author Yamamoto, Shûhei Author Maruyama, Munetoshi text Zootaxa 2016 4101 1 1 68 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4101.1.1 682e2c0a-35ac-46d1-9b0f-257f6d6d06f9 1175-5326 269393 53A25A6F-72AF-4B61-B8DA-E427FA2B634F Genus Paraleochara Cameron , 1920 ( Figs 9 , 18 , 27 , 36 , 44 , 100–106 , 119 , 128 ) Paraleochara Cameron , 1920 : 275 (original description); Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926 : 798 (catalogue of world species of Aleocharinae ); Cameron , 1939 : 623 (in key to British Indian genera of tribe Aleocharini ), 662 (redescription), plate III (habitus figured). Type species: Paraleochara fungivora Cameron , 1920 : 276 (= Aleochara translata Walker, 1859 ), by original designation and monotypy. Non-type material of the type species. P. fungivora : 1 unsexed, “ MALAY PENIN : / PAHANG, F.M.S. / Fraser’s Hill / HOUD’ / 19- 5- 1932 [HW: ‘Fraser’s Hill’, ‘HOUD’, ‘19- 5-’, only ‘[193] 2’.] // H. M. Pendlebury / F. M. S. / Museums. [ US ] // Paraleochara / fungivora / Cam. [HW] // Chicago Nat. Hist. Mus / (ex M. Cameron Colln. / by exchange with / Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.)” ( FMNH ). Diagnosis. Paraleochara can be distinguished and characterized from the other genera within the tribe Aleocharini as follows: body medium sized, pubescent, and strongly glossy; ligula elongate, somewhat acute apically; carina on each side of ventral side of head absent; each elytron with posterolateral corners not sinuate; legs long and slender, with 5-5-5 tarsal formula; intercoxal process of mesoventrite very short and wide, with broadly truncate posterior margin; intercoxal process of metaventrite exceptionally long, much longer than that of mesoventrite; female spermatheca with large spherical head, fused with its neck. See Cameron (1920 , 1939 ) and Park & Ahn (2010a) for further taxonomic information and references. Mouthpart characters of P. fungivora (as Paraleochara translata ), the type species of the genus, have been described in detail ( Sawada, 1982 ). Comments. This genus includes only the type species from the Oriental region [ Sri Lanka , Singapore , Borneo, Sulawesi, New Guinea ( Pace, 2014 ); the Malay Peninsula (present study)] but we found another species from East Asia , discussed below. Paraleochara belongs to the Tetrasticta generic group, which consists of eight genera (see Maruyama, 2004b ; Maruyama et al ., 2011 ).