Thoracostrongylus miyakei Bernhauer, 1943

Yang, Zhuo, Zhou, Hong-Zhang & Schillhammer, Harald, 2011, Taxonomy of the genus Thoracostrongylus Bernhauer (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with descriptions of five new species from China, Journal of Natural History 45 (7 - 8), pp. 407-433 : 428-430

Thoracostrongylus miyakei Bernhauer, 1943

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Thoracostrongylus miyakei Bernhauer, 1943: 179 (type locality: Formosa, Shinchiku ).

Shibata, 1982: 74 (characters; Taiwan); Smetana and Davies, 2000: 39 (checklist); Herman, 2001: 3556 (catalogue); Smetana, 2004: 686 (catalogue of Palaearctic region).

Type material

Syntype. CHINA: 1 male, Taiwan (FMNH) .

Additional material. 2 males, 1 female, CHINA: Sichuan, Baoxing, Qingshangou [30 ◦ 35’N, 102 ◦ 52’E], pitfall trap, 1820 m, 2003.VIII.3–6, Xiaodong Yu coll. (IZCAS) ; 2 males, 2 females, Sichuan, Baoxing, Qingshangou [30 ◦ 35’N, 102 ◦ 52’E], pitfall trap, 1800 m, 2003.VIII.3–6, Xiaodong Yu coll. (IZCAS) ; 2 females, Sichuan, Baoxing, Qingshangou [30 ◦ 35’N, 102 ◦ 52’E], pitfall trap, 1700 m, 2003.VIII.3–6, Xiaodong Yu coll. (IZCAS) ; 2 females, Sichuan, Baoxing, Qingshangou [30 ◦ 35’N, 102 ◦ 52’E], pitfall trap, 1935 m, 2003.VIII.3–6, Xiaodong Yu coll. (IZCAS) ; 2 females, Sichuan, south of Jiulong County [29 ◦ 00’N, 101 ◦ 30’E], 2665 m, pitfall trap, 2001.VII.9–12, Xiaodong Yu coll. (IZCAS) ; 1 male, 3 females, Sichuan, Baoxing [30 ◦ 22’N, 102 ◦ 48’E], 1400 m, 1995.VIII.16–18, Peiyu Yu coll. (IZCAS) .

Description

Measurements. Body length: 9.2–10.5 mm. ♂ (mean, n = 5): HL: 1.47; HW: 1.88; CL: 0.93; PO: 0.30; PL: 1.95; PW: 1.53; EL: 2.2; EW: 2.15; ELS: 1.15. ♀ (mean, n = 5): HL: 1.45; HW: 1.93; CL: 0.95; PO: 0.30; PL: 1.78; PW: 1.50; EL: 2.05; EW: 2.20; ELS: 1.05.

Distribution

China (Sichuan, Taiwan).

Figures

Figure 10. Thoracostrongylus miyakei Bernhauer, 1943, syntype, male from Sichuan and Taiwan, China. (A) 8th sternite, male; (B) 10th tergite, male; (C) 9th sternite, male; (D) aedeagus, ventral view; (E) aedeagus, lateral view. Scale bar 1 mm.