Contributions to the knowledge of the “ Staphylinus-complex ” (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) of China. Part XX. The genus Ocypus Leach, 1819, subgenus Pseudocypus Mulsant & Rey, 1876. Section 1 Author Published, First text Zootaxa 2007 2007-03-08 1421 1 72 journal article 1175­5334 Ocypus ( Pseudocypus ) pammenes sp. nov. ( Figs. 147–150 ) Type material . Holotype (male): CHINA : Sichuan : “CHINA: Sichuan 53 km NW Lixian 2750–3000 m VII.2001 leg. S. Murzin ” ( MSC ). Diagnosis . Ocypus pammenes shares all character states with O . elpenor and differs from it mainly by the differently shaped aedoeagus. Description . In all character states quite similar to O . elpenor and different only by the differently shaped aedoeagus and sternite 9 of male genital segment. Male. Genital segment with sternite 9 of different shape, with apical margin only slightly emarginate ( Fig. 147 ). Tergite 10 as in Fig. 148 . Aedoeagus smaller, shaped as in Figs. 149, 150 ; median lobe slightly asymmetrical, apical portion narrowed into sharp apex; paramere markedly elongate, situated on median lobe asymmetrically, middle portion subparallelsided, apical portion with broadly rounded apex ( Figs. 149, 150 ), distinctly not reaching apex of median lobe; sensory peg setae on underside of paramere arranged along apical margin of paramere and extended markedly posteriad along right lateral margin; apical setae situated as in Fig. 150 . Female. Unknown. Length 16. 0 mm. Bionomics . Nothing is known about the collecting circumstances of the holotype . Geographical distribution . Ocypus pammenes is at present known only from the type locality in Sichuan . Recognition and comments . Ocypus pammenes may be positively distinguished from O . elpenor only by the differently shaped aedoeagus ( Figs. 136 , 153) and sternite 9 of the male genital segment ( Figs. 134 , 147 ). Ocypus pammenes apparently occurs at the type locality together with O . elpenor . Etymology . The specific epithet is the name of Pammenes , - is m, a Greek rhetorician, instructor of Brutus , in apposition.