Lathrobium lingae
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Genus: Lathrobium
Name
Lathrobium lingae Peng & Li & Zhao, 2012 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type locality
Longwangshan Nature Reserve, Zhejiang Province, East China
Type material
(1 ♂). Holotype: ♂, labeled ‘CHINA: zhejiang Prov. / Anji County / Longwang Mt. / 25.iv.2006, alt. 950–1,200 m / Rui-Fen Ling leg.’.
Description
Measurements and ratios (holotype):BL 6.88, HL 1.00, HW 1.11, PL 1.27, PW 1.15, EL 1.36, HL/HW 0.91, HW/PW 0.96, HL/PL 0.79, PL/PW 1.11, EL/PL 0.71.
Male (Fig. 1A). Body brown with paler apex, legs reddish brown, antennae reddish brown to yellowish brown.
Head quadrate; posterior angles broadly rounded; postgenae weakly convex ventrally; integument with coarse and moderately dense punctation; eyes reduced.
Pronotum slightly stocky, slightly broader than head; punctation sparser than that of head; interstices shining, lacking microsculpture.
Elytra at suture distinctly shorter than pronotum; wider than long; punctation well-defined; and hind wings completely reduced.
Abdomen with dense pubescence; sternite VII (Fig. 3A) with short dark modified setae on postero-median semicircular impression; sternite VIII (Fig. 3C) with triangular emargination and with short dark modified setae on deep impression; sternite IX (Fig. 3B) asymmetrical; aedeagus (Fig. 3D, 3E) with conspicuously long, slender ventral process and twisted dorsal sclerites.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution
East China (Zhejiang: Longwangshan Mountain).
Etymology
The species is named after Rui-Fen Ling, who collected the type specimens.
Remarks
The new species is close to Lathrobium fengae in similar general form. Lathrobium lingae differs especially by the male sternite VII with deeper impression, male sternite VIII with regularly triangular apico-median emargination, and aedeagus with gracile ventral process and single dorsal sclerite. Lathrobium fengae has the male sternite VII with shallower impression, male sternite VIII with irregular apico-median emargination, and aedeagus with broad ventral process and two dorsal sclerites.
Original Description
- Peng, Z; Li, L; Zhao, M; 2012: Taxonomic study on Lathrobium Gravenhorst (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) from Longwangshan Mountain, East China ZooKeys, 165: 21-32. doi
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