On a collection of Batraxis Reitter (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) from Hainan Island, southern China
Author
Wang, Dan
Author
Yin, Zi-Wei
Author
Wang, Chun-Xin
text
Zootaxa
2016
4109
1
1
15
journal article
39133
10.11646/zootaxa.4109.1.1
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1175-5326
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Key to
Batraxis
males from Hainan
1 Body less than
1.4 mm
(
Fig. 3
B).............................................................
B. minor
sp. n.
- Body more than
1.5 mm
............................................................................... 2
2 Dorsal surface of body with bushy, long pubescence (
Fig. 2
A).......................................
B. pilosa
sp. n.
- Dorsal surface of body shiny, glabrous or sometime with sparse, minute setae..................................... 3
3 Abdomen and elytra bicolorous (
Fig. 1
A)......................................................
B. bicolor
sp. n.
- Abdomen and elytra concolorous........................................................................ 4
4 Abdomen strongly narrowed at lateral margins near base (
Fig. 1
B); profemora protuberant at middle (
Fig. 5
F).....................................................................................................
B. tibialis
sp. n.
- Abdomen smoothly rounded basolaterally or straight; profemora lacking protuberance............................... 5
5 Mesotibiae with a sharp apical tooth (
Fig. 5
E).................................................
B. spinosas
sp. n.
- Mesotibiae simple.................................................................................... 6
6 Head with complete vertexal sulcus, anterior margin of vertexal sulcus merging with subantennal transverse sulcus; antennae relatively thick (
Fig. 4
A); protrochanters lacking protuberance at ventral margin (
Fig. 4
E)...............
B. simplex
sp. n.
- Head lacking vertexal sulcus; antennae relatively thin (
Fig. 3
A); protrochanters expanded ventrally (
Fig. 5
K)..................................................................................................
B. hainanensis
sp. n.