Taxonomy of the genus Andrikothelyna Pace, 2000 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae Aleocharinae), with description of three new species from Taiwan and Japan Author Nozaki, Tsubasa Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819 - 0395, Japan & The Kyushu University Museum, Fukuoka 812 - 8581, Japan text Zootaxa 2023 2023-04-12 5264 1 64 76 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5264.1.4 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.1.4 1175-5326 7836172 47E141C8-F69A-422E-B7A7-E1AF4AD201BE Key to species of Andrikothelyna 1 Pronotum color reddish yellow to orange; elytra with low of granules along suture and carina near lateral margin weak ( Fig. 8 )................................................................................................. 2 - Pronotum color reddish brown to black; elytra with low of granules along suture and carina near lateral margin distinct ( Figs 5–7 )............................................................................................... 3 2 Pronotum having posterior medial depression (fig. 58 in Pace 2000 ); abdominal tergite VIII having two lateral large teeth and two medial short teeth at posterior margin (fig. 54 in Pace 2000 )...................................... A . papuana - Pronotum without posterior medial depression ( Figs 4, 8 ); abdominal tergite VIII having four to six short teeth at posterior margin ( Fig. 31 )..................................................................... A . naomichii sp. nov. 3 Posterior margin of each elytron having a pair of yellow semicircular maculation ( Figs 2–3 ).......... A . limbata sp. nov. - Posterior margin of each elytron without yellow semicircular maculation......................................... 3 4 Abdominal tergite VIII having six teeth (four major teeth and two tiny teeth) at posterior margin ( Fig. 17 )................................................................................................. A . rubiginosa sp. nov. - Abdominal tergite VIII having four teeth at posterior margin, two medial teeth very short (fig. 17 in Pace 2013 )............................................................................................. A . orientis comb. nov.