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Sinonichnus yunnanensis Jaloszynski 2021, comb. n.

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Sinonichnus yunnanensis Jałoszyński, comb. n.

Scydmoraphes yunnanensis Jałoszyński, 2019: 182.

Figs (1, 3–4, 11)

Type material studied: holotype of Scydmoraphes yunnanensis: ♁, three labels: „Huanxipo (1,950m) / Tengchong X., Yunnan / [SE-CHINA]“ [white, printed]; „ 14.x.1996, S. Nomura“ and locality name repeated in Chinese characters [white, printed], „ SCYDMORAPHES \ yunnanensis m. \ det. P. Jałoszyński, 2018 \ HOLOTYPUS “ [red, printed] (NSMT).

Additional material studied: China: 4 ♁♁, 7 ♀♀, Yunnan, pass SW Baoshan Gaoliging Shan, 4-8.vi.2005, sifted at base of old tree, leg. O. Nakládal (cPH, cPJ).

Emended diagnosis. Body length distinctly below 1 mm; antennae in males unmodified; anterior margin of prosternum crenulate; aedeagus (illustrated in Jałoszyński (2019)) stout, with broadly subtriangular apex, circular ventral diaphragm and lateral bunches of needle-like sclerites in endophallus.

Remarks. Females of this species differ from males in having much smaller eyes situated closer to mandibular bases, so that tempora are slightly more than twice as long as eyes. Apart from unmodified antennae in males, S. yunnanensis differs from the newly described S. leiodicornutus in a distinctly smaller body, crenulate anterior margin of prosternum (smooth in S. leiodicornutus), unmodified metaventrite, and a clearly different shape of the aedeagus.

Notes

Published as part of Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2021, Sinonichnus gen. n. for Scydmoraphes yunnanensis Jałoszyński, and description of Sinonichnus leiodicornutus sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), pp. 487-496 in Zootaxa 4938 (4) on page 490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4574976

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Biodiversity

Event date
2005-06-04
Verbatim event date
2005-06-04/08
Scientific name authorship
Jaloszynski
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Sinonichnus
Species
yunnanensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Sinonichnus yunnanensis (Jałoszyński, 2021) sec. Jałoszyński, 2021

References

  • Jaloszynski, P. (2019) The first species of Scydmoraphes (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) in China. Zootaxa, 4559 (1), 182 - 184. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4559.1.9