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<mods:title>Description of Pellatianmuensis sp. n. from eastern China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Yan, Zhu-Qi</mods:namePart>
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="148">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/DFC82D87-3AEF-47FB-9B4A-2EEAA6CD12E6" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Pella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pella tianmuensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="148" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tianmuensis">Pella tianmuensis</taxonomicName>
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Fig. 1
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="148">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="148">The new species is characterized by dark coloration of body, bicoloured elytra (yellowish maculation extending from humeral angles to mesal area), absence of a sexual dimorphism of the head, a basally curved and apically obtuse (lateral view) ventral process of the aedeagus, and a pronounced and long crista apicalis of the aedeagus.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="148">Type material</paragraph>
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(17 ♂♂, 27 ♀♀). Holotype: 1 ♂, labelled 'China: Zhejiang Prov., 
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City, W. Tianmushan (西天目山), nr. Kaishanlaodian (开山老殿), 
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; 
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, alt. 1200 m, 30.v.2014, Xiao-Bin Song &amp; Liang Tang leg. // HOLOTYPE [red], 
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sp. n., Yan &amp; Li det. 2015, 
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. Paratypes: 16 ♂♂, 27 ♀♀, same label data as holotype, all bearing the following label: 'PARATYPE [yellow], 
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sp. n., Yan &amp; Li det. 2015, 
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="148">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="148">Body (Fig. 1A) length: 4.56-6.60 mm. Coloration: fore body black; elytra bicoloured, with yellowish maculation extending from humeral angles to mesal area; abdomen brownish-black, with posterior margins of segments yellowish-brown; legs and antennae dull-red.</paragraph>
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Figure 1. 
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sp. n. A Dorsal habitusB Antenna C Male tergite VIII D Female tergite VIII E Male sternite VIII F Female sternite VIII G Spermatheca H Aedeagus, in ventral view I Aedeagus, in lateral view J Aedeagus, in dorsal view. Scale bars: 2.0 mm (A); 0.5 mm (B); 0.2 mm (
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Head (Fig. 1A) widest anteriorly; surface finely reticulate, covered with short golden setae; antennomeres 
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distinctly transverse (Fig. 1B). Pronotum (Fig. 1A) 1.28 times as wide as long and 1.40 times as wide as head; widest approximately in anterior third, narrowed posteriorly; surface covered with short golden setae; hypomera fully visible in lateral view. Elytra (Fig. 1A) approximately 1.08 times as long as pronotum; 
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with short golden setae; humeral angle with one macroseta. Hind wings fully developed. Abdomen (Fig. 1A) widest at segments 
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; surface with transverse microsculpture.
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Male. Tergite VIII (Fig. 1C) with posterior margin slightly emarginate, its emarginated apex weakly serrate; sternite VIII (Fig. 1E) with posterior margin rounded; median lobe of the aedeagus (Figs 1 
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) cone-shaped in ventral view; ventral process of aedeagus curved at base, obtuse at apex in lateral view; copulatory piece as in Fig. 1J.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="149">Female: Tergite VIII (Fig. 1D) with posterior margin truncate and weakly crenate; sternite VIII (Fig. 1F) with 12 or 13 pairs of macrosetae. Spermatheca (Fig. 1G) coiled three times.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="149">Measurements.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="149">BL: 4.56-6.56; FBL: 2.19-2.67; HW: 0.87-0.93; PL: 0.92-1.01; PW: 1.22-1.32; EL: 1.02-1.18; EW: 1.45-1.54; SL: 0.79-0.82.</paragraph>
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Most material of the new species was taken by sifting mixed leaf litter around the nest of 
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, together with three species of 
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Kraatz, 1858 and with 
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(
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, Sugaya &amp; Zhou, 2002). At least three 
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and some 
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beetles were observed walking along the ant trails. Approximately five 
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individuals were observed eating dead caterpillars together with 
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workers.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="150">Remarks.</paragraph>
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Based on the size of eyes, the shapes of the pronotum, the bicolored elytra, and the morphology of the aedeagal median lobe, 
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belongs to the 
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group, of which four species are known from China: 
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Maruyama, 2006, 
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Zheng &amp; Zhao, 2014, 
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Assing, 2009, and 
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Song &amp; Li, 2013. The new species is distinguished from 
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by the broader and shorter ventral process of the aedeagus in ventral view; from 
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by the darker color of the body, and by the length of the elytra slightly exceeding that of the pronotum (
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: EL/PL= 0.86); from 
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and 
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by the absence of a sexual dimorphism of the head and the different shape of the ventral process of the aedeagus, especially in lateral view.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="150">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="150">The specific epithet is derived from the type locality.</paragraph>
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