Validation of five Pselaphodes species names in Huang & Yin (2019): The Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) of Nepal
Author
Huang, Meng-Chi
Author
Yin, Zi-Wei
text
Revue suisse de Zoologie
2020
127
1
241
242
journal article
118438
10.35929/RSZ.0016
1fdbb725-750f-42bc-9dd7-1e24534cb421
0035-418
5743474
Pselaphodes bagmatius
Huang & Yin
,
sp. nov.
Type material
(
3 ex.
):
Holotype
;
MHNG- ENTO-43966
;
♂
;
NEPAL
, “NEPAL (
Prov. Bagmati
),
Malemchi
,
2900 m
,
14.IV.81
,
Löbl
&
Smetana
” (
MHNG
)
. –
Paratypes
;
MHNG-ENTO-43967
to
43968
;
2 ♀
;
NEPAL
, same label data as
holotype
(
MHNG
)
.
Diagnosis:
Male. Length
3.06 mm
. Antennomeres 9 with disc-shaped process at apex, antennomeres 10 with small projection at base. Metaventral processes long, apically broadened. Protrochanters with small ventral spine, profemora with big, blunt ventral spine, protibiae with slender spine at apex; mesotrochanters with acute ventral spine, mesotibiae with small projection at apex; metacoxae with sharp ventral spine. Median lobe of aedeagus narrowed apically; parameres slender at base and broadening apically. Female. May be identified only when associated with male.
Description and figures:
Huang & Yin, 2019: 168
; figs 1B, 3.