On the Stenus LATREILLE 1797 from Taiwan with non-spotted elytra (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) (327 Contribution to the Knowledge of Steninae) Author Puthz, V. text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2012 2012-12-28 44 2 1431 1475 journal article 269966 10.5281/zenodo.5337424 7c26f212-ab38-4e92-b461-cdb7dc073af5 0253-116X 5337424 Stenus mysterialis PUTHZ 1984 Stenus mysterialis PUTHZ 1984: 111 . Material: Chiayi Hsien : 2 : Alishan , 2300m , 8.IV.1965 , Y. Hirashima , 26.VII.1982 , Y. Shibata (Univ. Kyoto; cSh ) ; 1: Alishan , Sister Ponds , 2180m , 26.IV.1990 , A. Smetana (T 24) (coll. Smetana ) ; 2 : Fenchihu , 1500m , 2.-3.VII.1982 , N. Nishikawa ( cN , cP ) ; 2 , 3 : near Tadongshan , 1800m , 11.VII.1978, 14.VIII.1983 , Y. Shibata ( cSh , cP ) . Descriptional notes: This species has been described from 2 females . From the new material the male sexual characters are described here: Male: Metasternum flat, coarsely and densely punctate, interstices mostly smaller than half diameter of punctures, very shallowly reticulate. Sternite 3 simple, sternite 4 with a broad median impression in posterior half, which is coarsely and very densely punctate, sternite 5 and 6 each with a very broad and very deep median impression, of which the sides are strongly elevated posteriad, punctation and pubescence extremely fine and extremely dense, posterior margin broadly emarginate, sternite 7 anteriorly deeply, posteriorly shallowly impressed, punctation about as on previous sternites. Sternite 8 with narrow triangular excision in about posterior third. Sternite 9 with a long apicolateral tooth. Tergite 10 very broadly rounded at apical margin. Aedeagus (fig. 23), median lobe triangularly narrowed, apex narrowly rounded, expulsion hooks contiguous anteriorly; parameres slender with about 18-19 setae in apical third. Female: Spermatheca (fig. 49).