A new species and some new distribution records of the genus Apatetica Westwood from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Apateticinae)AuthorChang, Jin-Kanghttps://orcid.org/0009-0000-2946-6507College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1 st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234, ChinaAuthorSchillhammer, Harald0000-0001-6888-7953Natural History Museum Vienna, International Research Institute for Entomology, Burgring 7, A - 1010 Wien, AustriaAuthorTang, Liang0000-0002-6731-4544College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1 st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234, ChinatextZooKeys20242024-09-1312126577journal article10.3897/zookeys.1212.130072B700A9AB-A257-4690-BA50-6C09F91D578AApatetica confusaAssing, 2018Fig. 3 蛊惑脊葬隐翅虫Apatetica confusaAssing, 2018: 351
.
Material examined.China
–
Yunnan Prov.
•
4 ♂♂
,
3 ♀♀
,
SNCA 1117
–
SNCA 1123
;
Gongshan Hsien
,
Dulongjiang Country
,
Maku Village
;
27 ° 40 ' 57 " N
,
98 ° 18 ' 08 " E
; alt.
1250 m
;
24 Apr 2015
;
Wen-Xuan Bi
leg.;
SHNU
.
Apatetica confusaA – F
SNCA 1117
G
SNCA 1118
A
dorsal habitus
B
ventral habitus
C, D
aedeagus in lateral view
E, F
aedeagus in ventral view
G
female tergite VIII. Scale bars: 2 mm (
A, B
); 0.5 mm (
C – F
); 0.25 mm (
G
).
Measurements.BL
:
8.4–9.1 mm
,
FL
:
7.3–8.1 mm
.
HW
:
1.76–1.89 mm
,
PW
:
3.58–3.77 mm
,
EW
:
3.63–3.82 mm
,
AL
:
4.56–4.90 mm
,
PL
:
2.16–2.38 mm
,
EL
:
4.17–4.36 mm
.
Distribution.China
(
Yunnan
) and
Myanmar
. New to
China
.
Remarks.
The metallic hue of the elytra ranges from usually greenish-coppery to rarely blue or violet (
Assing 2018
). The specimens we collected in
Yunnan
all have blue metallic elytra. New record for
China
.