Cephennodes inflatipes

Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2015, The Cephenniini of China. VII. New species and new records of Cephennodes Reitter of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae), Zootaxa 4033 (3), pp. 393-410 : 399-400

Cephennodes inflatipes species group

Adults of beetles that belong in this group are typically very small (BL around 1 mm) and males have the metatibiae strongly broadening distally, spatuliform. Moreover, the aedeagus is extremely small (usually below 0.2 mm in length) and represents the simonis form, with very broad apical projection, with its apex directed toward the apex of the median lobe; the dorsal wall bears no setae. In some species also the abdomen in males is modified. Both males and females have the metaventrite behind mesocoxae strongly impressed laterally, impressions (= postcoxal impressions of Jałoszyński & Nomura (2009)) are sharply delimited and filled with long curved setae.

This group comprises six nominal species: C. inflatipes Jałoszyński, 2007a ( China) , C. kopeipes Jałoszyński, 2007b ( China) , C. abdominalis Jałoszyński, 2007b ( China) , C. parabdominalis Jałoszyński, 2007b ( China) , C. patellatus Jałoszyński & Nomura, 2009 ( Vietnam) and C. pseudopatellatus Jałoszyński & Nomura, 2009 ( Vietnam) . Possibly also C. spatulipes Jałoszyński, 2007a can be included in this group, although the aedeagus of this species deviates from the typical male copulatory organ known in C. inflatipes and allied species. Several undescribed species from Nepal belonging in this group have also been seen. Another new species from China is described below.