New data on Xantholinini from China - 18. Species from Yunnan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 227 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae
Author
Bordoni, A.
text
Linzer biologische Beiträge
2012
2012-07-31
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5327584
0253-116X
5327584
Atopolinus silvestris
nov.sp.
(
Figs 9-12
)
H o l o t y p e:
China
,
Yunnan
, Baoshan Pref.,
Gaoligong Shan
,
65 km
NNE Tengchong
,
1750 m
,
25°35'20''N
,
98°40'21''E
,
31.VIII.2009
(cS)
;
paratypes
: same data, 1 (cS)
;
same data,
Wrase
27.VIII.2009
, 1 (cB)
.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Length of body
7,4 mm
; from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra:
4 mm
. Similar to
Atopolinus brachypterus
BORDONI
, with similar puncturation and clear, reddish-brown coloration, with yellow legs, but larger and more robust, longer than in
A. brachypterus
. Head longer, less restricted before; eyes bigger; pronotum longer, with more oblique anterior margins and therefore with obsolete anterior angles, with sinuate sides. Elytra much longer and wider than in
A. brachypterus
, sub rectangular, with sub rectilinear and sub parallel sides, with marked anterior humeri, with punctuation equally distributed in a series near the suture, a median and a lateral, made up of a greater number of punctures that in
A. brachypterus
.
Posterior margin of the sixt visible male tergite as in
Fig. 9
. Male genital segment as in
Fig. 10
; sternite of the same as in
Fig. 11
. Aedeagus (
Fig. 12
)
1,6 mm
long, with asymmetrical, partially membranous pseudoparameres; inner sac with two overlapping
and transversely cross series of large spines.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known only for the
type
localitie.
E t y m o l o g y: From the Latin
silvestris - e
(sylvan).
N o t e: The specimens was collected in "second, mixed forest, overgrown stone, debris, litter and moss".