Mahavana daliana BORDONI 2010

Bordoni, A., 2013, New data on Xantholinini from China. 19 °. Five new species of Mahavana from Yunnan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (1), pp. 267-277 : 271-277

Mahavana daliana BORDONI 2010

This species is known from Yunnan: Dali Bai, Diancang Shan, 2860 m and Baihualing, Gaoligong Shan, 2290 m ( BORDONI 2010).

N o t e: In the contribution 227° (Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1): 427-436) the holotype of Atopolinus eminens nov.sp. from Yunnan (p. 431) is devoid, by omission, of depository. The holotype is preserved in the collection of Michael Schülke, in Berlin.

Acknowledgements

I wish to thank my colleague and friend Michael Schülke from Berlin for providing interesting material from Yunnan, and for the useful bionomic data.

Zusammenfassung

Fünf Arten der Gattung Mahavana BORDONI 2002 werden aus der chinesischen Provinz Yunnan beschrieben: M. schuelkei nov.sp., M. acinosa nov.sp., M. caeca nov.sp., M. evestigata nov.sp., M. rhododendri nov.sp.

References

BORDONI A. (2002): Xantholinini della Regione Orientale (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Classificazione, filogenesi e revisione tassonomica. — Monografie del Museo regionale di Scienze naturali, Torino 33: 998 pp.

BORDONI A. (2009): New data for the knowledge of the Xantholinini) Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China. XII. Species preserved in the National Museum of Naure and Science, Tokyo. — Japanese Journal of systematic Entomology 15 (1): 267-275.

BORDONI A. (2010): Contribution to the knowledge of the Xantholinini from China. XV. New species collected by Michael Schülke in Zhejiang and Yunnan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). — Beiträge Entomologie, Keltern 60 (1): 111-123.

CAMERON M. (1932): The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Coleoptera. Staphylinidae. III. — London, Taylor & Francis, 443 pp.

Author's address: Arnaldo BORDONI

Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze

sezione di Zoologia "La Specola", via Romana 17,

I-50125 Firenze, Italia

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Figs 1-5: head; last three antennomeres; tergite of the male genital segment; sternite of the same; aedeagus of Mahavana schuelkei nov.sp.:(scale bar: 0,1 mm; m= membranous).

Figs 6-10: head; last three antennomeres; tergite of the male genital segment; sternite of the same; aedeagus of Mahavana caeca nov.sp. (scale bar: 0,1 mm).

Figs 11-15: head; last three antennomeres; tergite of the male genital segment; sternite of the same; aedeagus of Mahavana acinosa nov.sp. (scale bar: 0,1 mm).

Figs 16-20: head; last three antennomeres; tergite of the male genital segment; sternite of the same; aedeagus of Mahavana evestigata nov.sp. (scale bar: 0,1 mm; m= membranous).

Figs 21-25: head; last three antennomeres; tergite of the male genital segment; sternite of the same; aedeagus of Mahavana rhododendri nov.sp. (scale bar: 0,5 mm).

Fig. 26: Mahavana rhododendri nov.sp.: forebody (scale bar: 0,5 mm).