Aleochara (Aleochara)

Yamamoto, Shûhei & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2016, Revision of the subgenus Aleochara Gravenhorst of the parasitoid rove beetle genus Aleochara Gravenhorst of Japan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 4101 (1), pp. 1-68 : 63

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4101.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:53A25A6F-72AF-4B61-B8DA-E427FA2B634F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6056056

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA87F7-FFEE-0D5F-FF21-FFE1FA63F8D5

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Aleochara (Aleochara)
status

 

Key to Japanese species of Aleochara (Aleochara) View in CoL

1. Body large, thick, uniformly black; antennomeres I–III also black in coloration.................. A. (A.) lata Gravenhorst View in CoL

-. Body small to relatively large, rather thick, not uniformly black, at most dark brown; antennomeres I–III reddish brown to brownish black....................................................................................... 2

2. Elytra uniformly yellowish to reddish brown, without any types of darkened maculations laterally and basally............................................................................................ A. (A.) coreana Bernhauer View in CoL

-. Elytra uniformly yellowish to reddish brown, with darkened maculations laterally; OR elytra uniformly brownish brown (some with weak maculations laterally)......................................................................... 3

3. Elytra with prominent, blackish, and parallel sided maculations on lateral margins, reaching to each shoulder................................................................................................ A. (A.) curtula (Goeze) View in CoL

-. Elytra with lateral maculations (if present), not reaching to each shoulder; OR without any maculations................. 4

4. Head rather coarsely and deeply punctured unevenly, especially near vertex; median lobe of male aedeagus narrowly elongate; female spermatheca with apical portion complicatedly coiled.................................. A. (A.) postica Walker View in CoL

-. Head rather densely and shallowly punctured evenly, especially near vertex; median lobe of aedeagus bulbous; spermatheca simple, C-shaped, apical portion not coiled.................................................................. 5

5. Apical lobe of median lobe of aedeagus, not hook-shaped at apex in lateral view; spermatheca with chitinized portion of spermathecal stem moderately long, almost same length of spermathecal head and neck combined.......... A. (A.) parens Sharp View in CoL

-. Apical lobe of median lobe of aedeagus, moderately hook-shaped at apex in lateral view; spermatheca with chitinized portion of spermathecal stem long, almost 1.5 times as long as spermathecal head and neck combined; endemic to Ishigaki-jima Is. and Iriomote-jima Is., Yaeyama-shotô Islands, southwestern part of Japan........................ A. (A.) yaeyamensis View in CoL n. sp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

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