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<mods:title>Contributions to the knowledge of the genus Horaeomorphus Schaufuss (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) in mainland China</mods:title>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="59">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/E5D8A881-C40E-4321-BAAE-415074D29AEF" authority="D. - Y. Zhou &amp; S. - J. Zhang" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Horaeomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Horaeomorphus biwenxuani" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="biwenxuani">Horaeomorphus biwenxuani D.-Y. Zhou &amp; S.-J. Zhang</taxonomicName>
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Fig. 8
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material
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="60">(1 ♂). Holotype: CHINA: ♂, labeled 'China: Xizang Prov., Cuona County [错那县], Lexiang [勒乡], alt. 2500m, 15.vii.2012, Wen-Xuan Bi leg.'.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="60">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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can be readily separated from all other congeners by its moderately large (2.78 mm) and elongate body, small pronotum lacking basal groove, with a row of three dorsal pits, subtriangular metatrochanter with distal edge produced into a short acute spine, and slender aedeagus with a complicated and strongly asymmetrical endophallus.
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="60">Description.</paragraph>
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Male. BL 2.78 mm; body (Fig. 8A) large, slightly convex, dark reddish-brown, legs and palpi slightly lighter. Head broadest at large, finely faceted and moderately convex eyes, HL 0.41 mm, HW 0.58 mm; tempora rounded, about as long as length of eye in dorsal view; vertex strongly transverse and weakly convex, with pair of small but distinct pits located near posterior margins of supra-antennal tubercles; frons weakly convex; supra-antennal tubercles strongly raised. Punctation on vertex and frons sparse, small but distinct; setae moderately long, sparse. Antennae (Fig. 8B) short, AnL 1.18 mm, relative lengths of antennomeres: 0.9: 1.0: 1.6: 1.3: 1.1: 1.0: 0.8: 0.9: 1.0: 1.1: 1.7. Pronotum short, longer than wide, widest slightly behind anterior fourth, PL 0.77 mm, PWm 0.65 mm, PWb 0.53 mm; pronotal margin rounded near anterior 2/3, then nearly
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up to sub-basal constriction; base with row of three dorsal pits and pair of lateral impressions located in constriction. Punctation on disc sparse and fine; dorsal surface glossy; setation moderately long. Elytra elongate, more convex than pronotum, distinctly impressed in middle at about anterior third; widest near anterior 2/5, narrowing toward apices. EL 1.59 mm, EW 0.99 mm, EI 0.59. Humeral calli distinct. Punctures fine, more distinct than those on pronotum, sharply marked and separated by spaces 3
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as wide as puncture diameters; setation moderately dense. Hindwings fully developed. Metatrochanter (Fig. 8I) short, subtriangular, distal edge produced into short acute spine. Aedeagus (Fig. 8
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) slender, AeL 0.55 mm; endophallus (Fig. 8
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) strongly asymmetrical, with curved axial component protruding from posterior complicated structure surrounded by two lateral
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structures; parameres (Fig. 8F) very slender with broadened apical parts, slightly shorter than median lobe, each with nine apical and subapical setae.
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Figure 8.
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sp. n. A male, dorsal habitus B Left antenna of male, in dorsal view C Aedeagus, in ventral view D Same, in lateral view E Same, in dorsal view F Apical portion of paramere, enlarged G Endophallus, enlarged, in ventral view H Same, schematic I Left metatrochanter of male, in ventral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A); 0.5 mm (B); 0.2 mm (C, D, E); 0.04 mm (F); 0.1 mm (G, H); 0.3 mm (I).
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. Unknown.
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<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="62">Comments.</paragraph>
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This new species with remarkably long legs has subtriangular metatrochanters in males, each with a sharp distal edge. This unique character can be found also in all four known Nepalese congeners:
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Horaeomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Horaeomorphus obrus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obrus">Horaeomorphus obrus</taxonomicName>
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, 2004,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Horaeomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Horaeomorphus deharvengi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="deharvengi">Horaeomorphus deharvengi</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Vít">Vit</normalizedToken>
, 2004,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Horaeomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Horaeomorphus himalayensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="himalayensis">Horaeomorphus himalayensis</taxonomicName>
Franz, 1974 and
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Horaeomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Horaeomorphus nepalensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nepalensis">Horaeomorphus nepalensis</taxonomicName>
Franz, 1973 (
<bibRefCitation author="Franz, H" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen der Muenchner Entomologische Gesellschaft" pageId="14" pageNumber="65" pagination="91 - 128" title="Neue und ungenuegend bekannte Scydmaeniden (Coleoptera) aus Taiwan, Fukien und Thailand." volume="74" year="1985">Franz 1974</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Vit, S" journalOrPublisher="Acta Societas Zoologicae Bohemicae" pageId="15" pageNumber="66" pagination="287 - 299" title="Notes on Horaeomorphus occurring in Nepal (Coleoptera, Scydmaenidae)." volume="68" year="2004">
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2004
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), but so far has not been recorded in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Horaeomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Horaeomorphus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Horaeomorphus</taxonomicName>
outside the Himalayas. However, a relatively small body (2.78 mm; among Himalayan species only
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Horaeomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Horaeomorphus deharvengi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="deharvengi">Horaeomorphus deharvengi</taxonomicName>
can be smaller than 3mm) and strongly asymmetrical endophallus are clearly different from characters of the Nepalese species. An asymmetrical endophallus also occurrs in
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Horaeomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Horaeomorphus deformatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="deformatus">Horaeomorphus deformatus</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Jałoszyński">Jaloszynski</normalizedToken>
, 2006 (W Malaysia: Kuala Terengganu),
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Jałoszyński">Jaloszynski</normalizedToken>
, 2006 (E Malaysia: Sabah, Sarawak) and
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Horaeomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Horaeomorphus minor" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minor">Horaeomorphus minor</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Jałoszyński">Jaloszynski</normalizedToken>
, 2009 (the Philippines: Bukidnon, Mindanao), but its structure is distinctly different from that in
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.
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<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="62">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="62">Western China: Xizang.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="62">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="62">This species is dedicated to Wen-Xuan Bi, who collected the type specimen.</paragraph>
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