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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.275.4449" ID-GBIF-Dataset="0c441264-6280-4320-9680-ae7048609f0f" ID-PMC="PMC3677325" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-275-17" ID-PubMed="23794809" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2013" ModsDocID="1313-2970-275-17" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 275" ModsDocTitle="Description of Pella maoershanensis sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) associated with Lasius spathepus from Guangxi, South China" checkinTime="1451247590340" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Song, Xiao-Bin &amp; Li, Li-Zhen" docDate="2013" docId="FCC94CAEBFB9D1BEC6933A78EC601F2C" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 275: 17-21" docOrigin="ZooKeys 275" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.275.4449" docTitle="Pella maoershanensis Song and Li, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="3" lastPageNumber="20" masterDocId="FFF0FFA3FF83FFA7FFFAD36E6853FFC6" masterDocTitle="Description of Pella maoershanensis sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) associated with Lasius spathepus from Guangxi, South China" masterLastPageNumber="21" masterPageNumber="17" pageNumber="18" updateTime="1668155439052" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Description of Pella maoershanensis sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) associated with Lasius spathepus from Guangxi, South China</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Song, Xiao-Bin</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Li, Li-Zhen</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2013</mods:date>
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C88CD3B9-6194-4FF7-8EB3-96EE761E35E4" authority="Song and Li" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Pella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pella maoershanensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maoershanensis">Pella maoershanensis Song and Li</taxonomicName>
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Fig. 1
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="18">Type material</paragraph>
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(24 ♂♂, 28 ♀♀). Holotype: ♂, labeled '
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,
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/ Maoer shan / (1,150 m). Xingan County / Guilin City / [Guangxi, China] / 24.VII.2012, Song X-B &amp; Hu J-Y // HOLOTYPE [red] /
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sp. n. / Song &amp; Li / det. 2013,
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. Paratypes: 23 ♂♂, 28 ♀♀, same label data as holotype, all bearing the following label: 'PARATYPE [yellow] /
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sp. n. / Song &amp; Li / det. 2013,
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.
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="18">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Pella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pella maoershanensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maoershanensis">Pella maoershanensis</taxonomicName>
shares with
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Pella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pella puetzi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="puetzi">Pella puetzi</taxonomicName>
a similar form of male sexual character on the head (
<bibRefCitation author="Assing, V" journalOrPublisher="Stuttgarter Beitraege zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie), Neue Serie" pageId="4" pageNumber="21" pagination="201 - 226" title="New species and additional records of Lomechusini from the Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)." volume="2" year="2009">Assing 2009</bibRefCitation>
). The two species can be readily distinguished by the smaller body size, the distinctly transverse antennomeres
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, and different forms of the aedeagal distal crest and ventral process in
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. The new species is also similar to the other species of the
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group in general appearance (Maruyama 2006) but can be readily separated by the sexually modified head in the male.
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="18">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="18">Body (Fig. 1A) length: 5.5-5.8 mm. Coloration: fore body brownish; abdomen blackish, with the posterior margins of the segments reddish-brown; leg and antennae reddish-brown.</paragraph>
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(Fig. 1A) almost 1.2 times as wide as long; widest just behind eyes; surface finely reticulate, covered with short golden setae. Antennae (Fig. 1D) about 2.2 mm long, shorter than head, pronotum and elytra combined; antennomeres
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distinctly transverse. Pronotum (Fig. 1E) 1.35 times as wide as long and 1.37 times as wide as head; widest around anterior third, narrowed posteriorly; posterior margin almost rounded; covered with short golden setae, with six macrosetae; hypomera fully visible in lateral view. Elytra (Fig. 1A) about 1.9 times as long as pronotum; covered with short golden setae; humeral angle with one macrosetae. Hind wings fully developed. Abdomen (Fig. 1A) widest at segments
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; surface with transverse microsculpture.
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Male. Posterior margin of head distinctly angled at middle (Fig. 1B); posterior margin of tergite VIII broadly concave and finely crenulate (Fig. 1F); posterior margin of sternite VIII (Fig. 1H) almost truncate; median lobe of aedeagus as in Figs 1
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.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="19">Female. Posterior margin of head indistinctly angled at middle (Fig. 1C); tergite VIII (Fig. 1G) and sternite VIII (Fig. 1I) distinctly shorter than that of male; spermatheca as in Fig. 1M.</paragraph>
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ant.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Lasius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lasius (Dendrolasius) spathepus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="spathepus" subGenus="Dendrolasius">Lasius (Dendrolasius) spathepus</taxonomicName>
(det. by M. Maruyama) (Figs 2A, B).
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="20">Biological notes.</paragraph>
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Species of
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are usually observed walking around the
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nest but never appear in it (Maruyama 2006). All individuals of the new species, plus three other aleocharine species were taken by sifting mixed leaf litter around the ant nest (Fig. 2C). Three possible larvae of the new species were taken back to the lab, and were observed to feed on a dead worker of the host ant (Fig. 2D).
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worth a note that two males and a female of an undescribed
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Nomura species (Yin pers. comm.) were directly collected from the deep site of the nest.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="20">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="20">Named after the type locality.</paragraph>
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Figure 1.
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. A Dorsal habitus B Head and pronotum in lateral view, male C Head and pronotum in lateral view, female D Antenna E Pronotum F Male tergite VIII G Female tergite VIII H Male sternite VIII I Female sternite VIII J aedeagus, in ventral view K same, in lateral view L same, in dorsal view M Spermatheca. Scales (mm): A = 2; B, C = 1; D = 0.25; E, F, G, H, I = 0.5; J, K, L = 0.3; M = 0.2.
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Figure 2. A Host ant, habitus in lateral view B Same, anterior view of head C A living species of
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with host antsD A possible larva of
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feeding on a dead worker of host ant. Scales (mm): A, B = 1.
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