Aploderus Stephens, 1833

Zheng, Fake, Li, Yujie & Yan, Xianghui, 2018, Two new species of the genus Aploderus Stephens (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from China, Zoological Systematics 43 (2), pp. 215-220 : 215

Aploderus Stephens, 1833

Aploderus Stephens, 1833: 273 . Type species: Staphylinus brachypterus Marsham, 1802 (= Oxytelus caelatus Gravenhorst, 1802 ).

Key to species of Aploderus Stephens of China.

1. Forebody with distinct microsculpture.................................................................................................................................................2 Forebody without microsculpture ................................................................................................. A. szechuanensis Bernhauer, 1934

2. Abdomen black, male 8th sternite shallowly arcuately emarginate at apical margin ........................................................................... 3 Abdomen blackish brown with yellow lateral and posterior margins, male 8th sternite with deeply triangularly emarginate in middle of apical margin .......................................................................................................................................................... A. songi sp. nov.

3. Elytra yellow with large subtriangular black marking extending from outer apical angle to apex of suture............ A. zhouae sp. nov. Elytra yellow brown with small black marking at outer apical angle................................................ A. disparatus Zheng & Pu, 1999