Atopolinus silvestris, Bordoni, 2012

Bordoni, A., 2012, New data on Xantholinini from China - 18. Species from Yunnan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 227 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae, Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1), pp. 427-436 : 430-431

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5327584

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Atopolinus silvestris
status

sp. nov.

Atopolinus silvestris View in CoL nov.sp. ( Figs 9-12 View Figs 9-12 )

H o l o t y p e: China, Yunnan, Baoshan Pref., Gaoligong Shan , 65 km NNE Tengchong, 1750 m, 25°35'20''N, 98°40'21''E, 31.VIII.2009 (cS) GoogleMaps ; paratypes: same data, 1 (cS) GoogleMaps ; same data, Wrase 27.VIII.2009, 1 (cB) GoogleMaps .

D e s c r i p t i o n: Length of body 7,4 mm; from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra: 4 mm. Similar to Atopolinus brachypterus BORDONI , with similar puncturation and clear, reddish-brown coloration, with yellow legs, but larger and more robust, longer than in A. brachypterus . Head longer, less restricted before; eyes bigger; pronotum longer, with more oblique anterior margins and therefore with obsolete anterior angles, with sinuate sides. Elytra much longer and wider than in A. brachypterus , sub rectangular, with sub rectilinear and sub parallel sides, with marked anterior humeri, with punctuation equally distributed in a series near the suture, a median and a lateral, made up of a greater number of punctures that in A. brachypterus .

Posterior margin of the sixt visible male tergite as in Fig. 9 View Figs 9-12 . Male genital segment as in Fig. 10 View Figs 9-12 ; sternite of the same as in Fig. 11 View Figs 9-12 . Aedeagus ( Fig. 12 View Figs 9-12 ) 1,6 mm long, with asymmetrical, partially membranous pseudoparameres; inner sac with two overlapping

and transversely cross series of large spines.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known only for the type localitie.

E t y m o l o g y: From the Latin silvestris - e (sylvan).

N o t e: The specimens was collected in "second, mixed forest, overgrown stone, debris, litter and moss".

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Atopolinus

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