New species, synonymies, combinations, and records of micropterous Athetini from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
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https://doi.org/10.21248/contrib.entomol.71.1.087-101Keywords:
Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Athetini, Bellatheta, Atheta, Microdota, Franzidota, taxonomy, new species, description, new synonymies, new combinations, endemism, wing reduction, China, Taiwan, new records, catalogue, distribution mapAbstract
Two micropterous and locally endemic species of Bellatheta Roubal, 1928 and four of Atheta Thomson, 1858, subgenus Microdota Mulsant & Rey, 1873, from China are described and illustrated: Bellatheta qiliana spec. nov. (Qinghai, Gansu); B. aucticeps spec. nov. (Yunnan: Gaoligong Shan); Atheta (Microdota) clarata spec. nov. (Yunnan: Gaoligong Shan); A. (M.) minica spec. nov. (Sichuan: Songpan env.); A. (M.) qinlingica spec. nov. (Shaanxi: Qinling Shan); A. (M.) biformis spec. nov. (Gaoligong Shan). New illustrations are provided for two previously described Microdota species. One genus-group and one species-group synonymy are proposed: Bellatheta Roubal, 1928 = Oroekklina Pace, 1999, syn. nov.; Atheta (Microdota) amischoides Assing, 2006 = A. (M.) wuliangensis Pace, 2017, syn. nov. Five new combinations are proposed: Bellatheta daxuensis (Pace, 1999), comb. nov., B. excaecata (Assing, 2009), comb. nov., B. proiecta (Assing, 2002), comb. nov., B. smetanai (Pace, 2004), comb. nov. (all of them previously in Oroekklina), and Franzidota geostiboides (Assing, 2011), comb. nov. (ex Platyola Mulsant & Rey, 1875). Additional records of two species of Bellatheta and of five species of Microdota are reported from China. Catalogues of the Bellatheta species and the micropterous Microdota species recorded from China are provided. Including the new species and synonymies, 15 species of Bellatheta, seven of them micropterous, and 85 of Microdota, 19 of them micropterous, have been reported from China. The Microdota fauna of Taiwan is composed of 13 species, four of them micropterous. The distributions of the micropterous Bellatheta species of China are mapped.
Taxonomic acts
Bellatheta qiliana spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F391FF78-2A4B-4BEA-BB85-85AC8E30FE70
Bellatheta aucticeps spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1A3E6AAA-2C3C-44B8-A911-4F1246774075
Atheta clarata spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EE3C4E47-FEAB-413A-81C7-A063529A5235
Atheta minica spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E325AF25-C1DD-441C-B7D5-AB2ACF109581
Atheta qinlingica spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1590B986-DE95-458C-AFE3-71CC51AB4106
Atheta biformis spec. nov. – urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:30A8940E-5B8A-4E27-997F-777E8FFF3E80
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