Hesperus Bernhauer 1915
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Description
Hesperus borneensis group
Diagnosis: Slightly modified from that of Schillhammer (2002, 2016), the group can be defined by the following characters: body broadly elongate with head trapezoid; antennae with antennomeres 7–10 asymmetrically extended; abdomen with tergites III–V with two basal lines; apical portion of male sternite IX with stout and long setae; median lobe rod-like, apical portion slightly bent dorsad in lateral view, lateral margin of apical portion of paramere with large number of peg-setae.
Distribution and diversity: The group is presently known from the Sunda region, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, southwestern and southern China, and it includes the following species: H. borneensis Bernhauer, 1915, H. birmanus Cameron, 1932, H. javanus Cameron, 1937, H. malayanus Cameron, 1932 a, H. temburong Schillhammer, 2002, H. watanabei Shibata, 2002, H. wemmeri Schillhammer, 2002, H. susannekontrusae Schillhammer, 2005, H. rougemonti Schillhammer, 2016 and H. flexibilis sp. n..
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Hesperus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bernhauer
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hesperus Bernhauer, 1915 sec. Cai, Li & Tang, 2024
References
- Schillhammer, H. (2002) Three new Oriental species of Hesperus Fauvel (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 72, 127 - 135.
- Schillhammer, H. (2016) Hesperus rougemonti sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Borneo. Zootaxa, 4061 (2), 197 - 200. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4061.2.10
- Cameron, M. (1932) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera. Staphylinidae. Vol. III. Taylor & Francis, London, 443 pp.
- Shibata, Y. (2002) A new species of the genus Hesperus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Special Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Coleopterology, 5, 255 - 260.
- Schillhammer, H. (2005) Faunistic data of Asian Philonthina and descriptions of a new genus and five new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 75, 179 - 189.