Review of the intertidal rove beetle tribe Liparocephalini Fenyes (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Japan Author Tasaku, Yuto Department of Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Tokai University, Hokkaido, 005 - 8601, Japan. & Corresponding author Author Ono, Hiroki Sounan, Minami-ku, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa, 252 - 0312, Japan. Author Maruyama, Munetoshi The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6 - 10 - 1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812 - 8581, Japan. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-12-12 5383 3 251 296 https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5383.3.1/52454 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.3.1 1175-5326 20988E42-C14D-4878-A716-8CEAB5E5EF92 Key to the Japanese species of Amblopusa 1. Body longer than 3.0 mm; head, pronotum and elytra reddish brown; apical lobe of median lobe divided......... A. magna - Body short, at most 2.5 mm long; head, pronotum and elytra yellowish brown; apical lobe of median lobe unilobed....... 2 2. Body about 1.5 mm long, parallel-sided......................................................... A . hokkaidona - Body about 2.5 mm long, subparallel (between pronotum and elytra more constricted).............................. 3 3. Pronotum rather flattened with anterolateral margin angular; median lobe of aedeagus slightly swollen near apex in lateral view....................................................................................... A . pacifica - Pronotum slightly convex with anterolateral margin rounded; median lobe of aedeagus apically acute in lateral view................................................................................................... A . brevipes