Published December 12, 2023 | Version v1
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Rotundicephala Tasaku & Ono & Maruyama 2023, gen. n.

  • 1. Department of Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Tokai University, Hokkaido, 005 - 8601, Japan. & Corresponding author
  • 2. Sounan, Minami-ku, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa, 252 - 0312, Japan.
  • 3. The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6 - 10 - 1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812 - 8581, Japan.

Description

Key to the species of Rotundicephala gen. n.

1. Antennae long, reaching to elytra, collected from gravel beach.................................. R. koreana comb. n.

- Antennae short, not reaching to elytra, collected from rocky shore............................................... 2

2. Head and pronotum slightly convex, antennal segments IV–IX as long as wide......................... R. koheii sp. n.

- Head and pronotum flattened, antennal segments IV–VIII transverse.............................. R. pacifica comb. n.

Notes

Published as part of Tasaku, Yuto, Ono, Hiroki & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2023, Review of the intertidal rove beetle tribe Liparocephalini Fenyes (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Japan, pp. 251-296 in Zootaxa 5383 (3) on page 272, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10361564

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Rotundicephala
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Tasaku & Ono & Maruyama
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Rotundicephala Tasaku, Ono & Maruyama, 2023