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Tetrabothrus inflexus ASSING 2015

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Tetrabothrus inflexus ASSING, 2015

(Figs 440–441)

Material examined: India: 1 ♂, Arunachal Pradesh, Dirang env., 27°21'N, 92°13'E, ca. 1800 m, 8.–22.V.2006, leg. Pacholátko (BMNH); Thailand: 1 ♀, NW-Thailand, 23 km SE Pai, W Mae Hong Son, 10.–20.V.2006, leg. Grimm (SMNS); 1 ♀, NE Bangkok, Khao Yai National Park, Khao Khieo, 1150 m, 28.XUI.1985, leg. Burckhardt & Löbl (cAss); 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep, 1180 m, pitfall traps, VII.1986, leg. Schwendinger (MHNG, cAss); 1 ♀, Chiang Mai, 54 km NE Chiang Mai, Mae Nang Kaeo, 900 m, 3.XI.1985, leg. Burckhardt & Löbl (MHNG); 6 exs., Tak Province, Umphang District, Mae Chan / Mae Klong confluence, Thung Yai Wildlife Sanctuary, 15°30'N, 98°48'E, 300 m, 27.IV.–6.V.1988, leg. Brendell (BMNH, cAss); 9 exs., Tak Province, Umphang District, Song Bae stream, Thung Yai Wildlife Sanctuary, 15°28'N, 98°48'E, 300 m, 18.–27.IV.1988, leg. Brendell (BMNH, cAss). Laos: 1 ♀, Houa Phan province, Phou Pane mountain, 20°13'N, 104°00'E, 1480–1510 m, 22.IV.– 14.V.2008, leg. Kubáň (NMP); 11 exs., Louangphrabang, Thong Khan, 19°35'N, 101°58'E, 750 m, 11.–21.V.2002, leg. Kubáň (NHMB, cAss); 1 ♀, Bolikhamxai prov., 8 km Ban Nape, 18°21'N, 105°08'E, 600 m, 1.–18.V.2002, leg. Kubáň (NHMB).

Comment: Tetrabothrus inflexus was previously known only from the Chinese provinces Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, and Guangxi (ASSING 2015b, YAN & LI 2015b). The above material represents the first records from India, Thailand, and Laos. The aedeagus of a male from Laos is illustrated in Figs 440–441.

Notes

Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2016, On some Lomechusini of the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 13-111 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.66.1.13-111, http://zenodo.org/record/6421171

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  • ASSING, V. 2015 b: On the Tetrabothrus fauna of China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Lomechusini). - Linzer Biologische Beitrage 47 (1): 127 - 143.
  • YAN, Z. - Q. & Li, L. - Z. 2015 b: New species and additional records of Tetrabothrus BERNHAUER from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) - Zootaxa 4007 (2): 276 - 282.