Pselaphodes rotundatus Huang & Yin, 2020

Huang, Meng-Chi & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2020, Validation of five Pselaphodes species names in Huang & Yin (2019): The Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) of Nepal, Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (1), pp. 241-242 : 242

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.35929/RSZ.0016
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6983551
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FF3D36-FFA3-FFF2-FF18-FB1FCF8D3BEF
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Pselaphodes rotundatus Huang & Yin
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Pselaphodes rotundatus Huang & Yin View in CoL , sp. nov.

Type material (5 ex.): Holotype; MHNG- ENTO-44063 ; ♂; NEPAL, ‘NEPAL (Prov. Bagmati), below Thare Pati , 3300 m, 11.IV.81, Löbl & Smetana ” ( MHNG) . – Paratypes; MHNG-ENTO-44064 to 44066 ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀; NEPAL, same label data as holotype . – MHNG-ENTO-44067 ; paratype, 1 ♂; NEPAL, same label data as holotype, except “ 10.IV.81 ” (all paratypes in MHNG) .

Diagnosis: Male. Length 3.10-3.13 mm. Antennomeres 9 with large disc-shaped process at apex, antennomeres 10 with small projection at base. Metaventral processes broad, forked at apex. Profemora with triangular ventral spine, protibiae with distinct spine at apex; mesotrochanters with slender ventral spine, mesotibiae with small projection at apex; metacoxae with short ventral projection. Median lobe of aedeagus broad and asymmetric at apex; parameres short. Female. May be identified only when associated with male.

Description and figures: Huang & Yin, 2019: 185; figs 16A, 17.