New data on the Xantholinini from China. 24. New genus, new species and new records of the Shanghai Normal University collection (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 244 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae
Author
Bordoni, A.
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2013
2013-12-20
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.10273196
0253-116X
10273196
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Indolinus leigong
nov.sp.
M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d:
Holotype
: Guizou, Xiaodanjiang, Leigong Mt,
650-700 m
, Zhu lilong
14.IX.2005
(
SNUC
).
D e s c r i p t i o n: Length of body about
5,5 mm
; from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra:
2,5 mm
. Body shiny, brown with abdomen yellowish brown; antennae and legs yellowish light. Head ovoidal, narrow anteriorly, with rounded sides from eyes to the neck. Eyes small and flat. Surface of head with very fine and very sparse puncturation. Pronotum longer and wider than head, with oblique anterior margins and sinuate sides. Surface with dorsal series of 6 superficial punctures and lateral series of 3 anterior punctures. Elytra wide, shorter and wider than ponotum, with a little rounded sides and scarcely marked humeral angles. Surface with well visible, not deep puncturation, arranged in three series, one near the suture, one median, one lateral. Abdomen with fine but well visible puncturation, dense on the sides.
Male genital segment as in
Fig. 59
; sternite of the same with posterior margin bilobed, each lobe with 5 black and short spines (
Fig. 60
). Aedeagus (
Fig. 61
) proportionally large,
1,48 mm
long, sub-ovoidal, narrow in the distal portion, with characteristic parameres; inner sac ribbon-like, wide, long, covered by big, sub-triangular scales in the distal portion, and by fine scales in the proximal portion (
Fig. 62
).
E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet refers to the
type
locality, as a noun in apposition.
G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: The species is known only from the
type
locality, in Guizou.
N o t e: The genus
Indolinus
BORDONI 2002
is composed by few species and seems not common (
I. mitomorphoides
(
COIFFAIT 1984
)
from Indochinese sub-region;
I. formosae
(
BERNHAUER 1943
)
from southern
China
: Guanxi,
Hong Kong
, and
Taiwan
;
I. sculptilis
BORDONI 2002
from
Hong Kong
;
I. vietnamiticus
BORDONI 2012d
from
Vietnam
). An other species from
Laos
(
I. laosianus
nov.sp.
) is in press.
The new species differs from the congeners especially by the aedeagus.