<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.447.8217" ID-GBIF-Dataset="45ec69d5-b320-4c50-8bfc-a45bd75e6a98" ID-PMC="PMC4205752" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-447-125" ID-PubMed="25349519" ID-ZBK="F21656A177A64AD3BC088BCF528D0E3F" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2014" ModsDocID="1313-2970-447-125" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 447" ModsDocTitle="Two new species of Lobrathium Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) from China" checkinTime="1451245218778" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Lue, Ze-Kan & Li, Li-Zhen" docDate="2014" docId="A6025D01A16C134D12D6D319DA6F6EF8" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 447: 125-131" docOrigin="ZooKeys 447" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.447.8217" docTitle="Lobrathium atanggei Lue & Li, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="B28715BD-EBD3-4AF5-9EC5-ADA4909BC853" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="128" masterDocId="FFD1FFE0FFEDEC46FF939368821A1237" masterDocTitle="Two new species of Lobrathium Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) from China" masterLastPageNumber="131" masterPageNumber="125" pageNumber="126" updateTime="1668159485103" updateUser="ExternalLinkService"> <mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3"> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>Two new species of Lobrathium Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) from China</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:name type="personal"> <mods:role> <mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role> <mods:namePart>Lue, Ze-Kan</mods:namePart> </mods:name> <mods:name type="personal"> <mods:role> <mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role> <mods:namePart>Li, Li-Zhen</mods:namePart> </mods:name> <mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource> <mods:relatedItem type="host"> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:part> <mods:date>2014</mods:date> <mods:detail type="volume"> <mods:number>447</mods:number> </mods:detail> <mods:extent unit="page"> <mods:start>125</mods:start> <mods:end>131</mods:end> </mods:extent> </mods:part> </mods:relatedItem> <mods:location> <mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.447.8217</mods:url> </mods:location> <mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification> <mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.447.8217</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-447-125</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="ZBK">F21656A177A64AD3BC088BCF528D0E3F</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="ZooBank">F21656A177A64AD3BC088BCF528D0E3F</mods:identifier> </mods:mods> <treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152055897" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B28715BD-EBD3-4AF5-9EC5-ADA4909BC853" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A6025D01A16C134D12D6D319DA6F6EF8" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="128" pageId="1" pageNumber="126"> <subSubSection pageId="1" pageNumber="126" type="multiple"> <paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="126">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae</paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="1" pageNumber="126" type="nomenclature"> <paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="126"> <taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/B28715BD-EBD3-4AF5-9EC5-ADA4909BC853" authority="Lue & Li" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Lobrathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lobrathium atanggei" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="126" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atanggei"> Lobrathium atanggei <normalizedToken originalValue="Lü">Lue</normalizedToken> & Li </taxonomicName> <taxonomicNameLabel pageId="1" pageNumber="126">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel> Fig. 2 </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="2" pageNumber="127" type="type material"> <paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="127"> <pageBreakToken pageId="2" pageNumber="127" start="start">Type</pageBreakToken> material. </paragraph> <paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="127"> Holotype: ♂, labelled 'China: Yunnan Prov., Xishuangbanna, Nabanhe N. R., alt. 700 m, <geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="22.166666">22°10'00"N</geoCoordinate> , <geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="100.66056">100°39'38"E</geoCoordinate> , 1.VII.2004, Liang Tang leg. / HOLOTYPE [red], <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Lobrathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lobrathium atanggei" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="127" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atanggei">Lobrathium atanggei</taxonomicName> sp. n., <normalizedToken originalValue="Lü">Lue</normalizedToken> & Li det. 2014, <normalizedToken originalValue="SNUC’">SNUC'</normalizedToken> . </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="128" pageId="2" pageNumber="127" type="description"> <paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="127">Description.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="127">Body length 6.56 mm; length of forebody 3.11 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 2A. Coloration: body black, elytra with pronounced blue hue and small subcircular yellow spot, this spot reaching neither suture, nor lateral or posterior margins; legs black with paler tarsi, antennae blackish brown to dark yellow.</paragraph> <caption pageId="2" pageNumber="127"> <paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="127"> Figure 2. <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Lobrathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lobrathium atanggei" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="127" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atanggei">Lobrathium atanggei</taxonomicName> . A habitus B aedeagus in lateral view C aedeagus in ventral view D male sternite VII E male sternite VIII. Scale bars: A 1 mm, <normalizedToken originalValue="B–E">B-E</normalizedToken> 0.5 mm. </paragraph> </caption> <paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="127">Head almost as broad as long (HW/HL 1.05), posterior angles broadly rounded, weakly marked; punctation dense and coarse, sparser in median dorsal portion; interstices without microsculpture. Eyes large, more than half as long as distance from posterior margin of eye to neck in dorsal view. Antenna slender, 2.0 mm long.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="127">Pronotum 1.24 times as long as broad and 0.94 times as wide as head, lateral margins weakly convex in dorsal view; punctation dense and coarser than that of head, midline with broad and complete impunctate band; interstices without microsculpture.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="127">Elytra distinctly broader and longer than pronotum (EW/PW 1.42; EL/PL 1.55), humeral angles marked; punctation dense and coarse; interstices without microsculpture and glossy. Hind wings fully developed.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="127">Abdomen narrower than elytra; punctation very fine and dense, dorsal surface matt; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="128"> <pageBreakToken pageId="3" pageNumber="128" start="start">Male</pageBreakToken> : Sternites <normalizedToken originalValue="III–VI">III-VI</normalizedToken> unmodified; sternite VII (Fig. 2D) strongly transverse, with pronounced median impression posteriorly, with sparse unmodified pubescence, and with broadly concave posterior margin; sternite VIII (Fig. 2E) weakly oblong, with deep median impression posteriorly, this impression with numerous modified, very short and stout black setae, posterior excision deep and almost U-shaped; aedeagus (Figs 2B, C) 1.10 mm long, ventral process somewhat asymmetric and of distinctive shape. </paragraph> <paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="128">Female: unknown.</paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="128" type="distribution and natural history"> <paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="128">Distribution and natural history.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="128">The type locality is situated in the Nabanhe Natural Reserve, to the northwest of Xishuangbanna, southwestern Yunnan. The holotype was found on the bank of a stream at an altitude of 700 m.</paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="128" type="etymology"> <paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="128">Etymology.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="128"> The species is named after Liang Tang (nickname <normalizedToken originalValue="“Atangge”">"Atangge"</normalizedToken> ), who collected the holotype. </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="129" pageId="3" pageNumber="128" type="remarks"> <paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="128">Remarks.</paragraph> <paragraph lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="129" pageId="3" pageNumber="128"> In external characters (black body, weakly transverse head, slender pronotum, elytra with small subcircular spot), as well as the shape and chaetotaxy of the <pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="129" start="start">male</pageBreakToken> sternites VII and VIII, <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Lobrathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lobrathium atanggei" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atanggei">Lobrathium atanggei</taxonomicName> is similar to <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Lobrathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lobrathium ablectum" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ablectum">Lobrathium ablectum</taxonomicName> Assing, 2012 from Hubei. The new species is readily distinguished from <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Lobrathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lobrathium ablectum" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ablectum">Lobrathium ablectum</taxonomicName> by the somewhat smaller size, the pronounced blue hue of the body and a stout ventral process of the aedeagus. Regarding the morphology of the aedeagus (robust and with short ventral process), however, the new species is most similar to <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Lobrathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lobrathium quadrum" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quadrum">Lobrathium quadrum</taxonomicName> Li, Solodovinikov & Zhou, 2013 from Sichuan. It is distinguished from <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Lobrathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lobrathium quadrum" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quadrum">Lobrathium quadrum</taxonomicName> by the pronounced blue hue of the body; the yellowish spot on elytra, reaching neither suture, nor lateral or posterior margins; the modifications of the male sternites <normalizedToken originalValue="VII–VIII">VII-VIII</normalizedToken> (sternite VII with pronounced median impression posteriorly, sternite VIII with numerous modified, very short and stout black setae; deep posterior excision). For illustrations of <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Lobrathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lobrathium ablectum" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ablectum">Lobrathium ablectum</taxonomicName> and <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Lobrathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lobrathium quadrum" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quadrum">Lobrathium quadrum</taxonomicName> see <bibRefCitation author="Assing, V" journalOrPublisher="Bonn Zoological Bulletin" pageId="4" pageNumber="129" pagination="49 - 128" title="A revision of East Palaearctic Lobrathium (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)." volume="61" year="2012">Assing (2012)</bibRefCitation> and <bibRefCitation author="Li, XY" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="5" pageNumber="130" pagination="569 - 578" title="Four new species of the genus Lobrathium Mulsant et Rey from China." url="10.11646/zootaxa.3635.5.6" volume="3635" year="2013">X.-Y. Li et al. (2013)</bibRefCitation> , respectively. </paragraph> </subSubSection> </treatment> </document>