Taxonomic notes on the genus Pseudoligota Cameron (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Japan Author Hashizume, Takuto 0000-0002-4910-1836 Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 819 - 0395 Japan. 0214 sakana @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4910 - 1836 0214sakana@gmail.com Author Yamamoto, Shûhei 0000-0002-4162-8457 The Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido University, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060 - 0810 Japan. s. yamamoto. 64 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4162 - 8457 s.yamamoto.64@gmail.com Author Maruyama, Munetoshi The Kyushu University Museum, Fukuoka, 812 - 8581 Japan. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-01-04 5227 1 100 108 journal article 221875 10.11646/zootaxa.5227.1.4 7e931d98-adfe-4247-ad31-9caa50a7f593 1175-5326 7518437 03EA1216-920A-4B67-8D9F-DBE42451D7E5 Key to Japanese species of Pseudoligota 1. Male tergite VIII with broad blunt median tooth at posterior margin; wall of distal end of spermatheca with inward protrusion........................................................................... P. antennata ( Bernhauer, 1907 ) - Male tergite VIII unmodified; wall of distal end of spermatheca without inward protrusion.............. P. nozakii sp. nov.