The genus Pseudolathra Casey in China: new species and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae)

Xiao-Yan Li; Alexey Solodovnikov; Hong-Zhang Zhou

doi:10.3897/zookeys.356.5979

The genus Pseudolathra Casey in China: new species and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae)

Zookeys. 2013 Nov 27:(356):1-9. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.356.5979. eCollection 2013.

Authors

Xiao-Yan Li¹, Alexey Solodovnikov², Hong-Zhang Zhou³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chao Yang, 100101 Beijing, P.R. China ; Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum of Denmark/University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15,Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.
² Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum of Denmark/University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15,Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.
³ Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chao Yang, 100101 Beijing, P.R. China.

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Pseudolathra Casey from mainland China are described and attributed to their respective species groups, P. cylindrata sp. n. from Hubei and Sichuan, and P. superficiaria sp. n. from Yunnan. Pseudolathra pulchella (Kraatz, 1859), P. transversiceps Assing, 2013 and P. bipectinata Assing, 2013 from Yunnan are reported from China for the first time. The history of the exploration of the Chinese fauna of Pseudolathra is summarized.

Keywords: China; New species; Paederinae; Pseudolathra; Staphylinidae.