Description of Cerochusa gesinae sp. nov. from Thailand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
Author
Yin, Zi-Wei
Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200234, China. E-mail: pselaphinae @ gmail. com
pselaphinae@gmail.com
Author
Kleeberg, Andreas
Zum Alten Windmühlenberg 26, D- 12524 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: a. g. kleeberg @ t-online. de
a.g.kleeberg@t-online.de
text
Revue suisse de Zoologie
2020
127
2
377
380
journal article
119480
10.35929/RSZ.0027
84598099-bfd0-4151-a695-84babaa6c20c
0035-418
5743872
Cerochusa
Yin & Nomura, 2012
Cerochusa
Yin & Nomura
in
Yin
et al
., 2012: 66
.
Type
species:
Cerochusa cilioceps
Yin & Nomura
(in
Yin
et al
., 2012: 68
).
Revised diagnosis:
Body robust in form, with thick antennae and legs. Head roundly triangular; vertex convex medially, with U-shaped sulcus or impression connecting vertexal foveae; ocular canthi distinct, thick. Pronotum strongly transverse, with large spines at lateral sides, posterolateral corners spinose or angulate; disc with distinct median longitudinal sulcus, discal carinae weakly to strongly indicated, lateral longitudinal sulci present or absent. Elytra broad, transverse, truncate at bases and apices; each elytron with two distinct basal foveae; sutural striae complete, discal striae absent or distinct. Abdomen with tergite 1 (IV) twice length of tergite 2 (V). Tergite 1 (IV) with complete or incomplete inner marginal carinae, outer marginal carinae complete, discal carinae short. Aedeagus with large and round basal capsule; basoventral projection prominent.
Composition:
The genus contains two species (including the new species described here) distributed in southern
China
(
Hainan
) and
Thailand
(
Loei
,
Nan
,
Chiang Mai
).