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Issue: Vol. 3911 No. 1: 16 Jan. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-01-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3911.1.4
Page range: 81–90
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 6

Redescription of Oedichirus flammeus Koch, and description of two new Oedichirus species from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae, Pinophilini)

Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
Staphylinidae Procirrina taxonomy new species Oedichirus micropterous China

Abstract

Oedichirus flammeus Koch, 1939 (Zhejiang, East China), O. damingensis sp. n. (Guangxi, South China), and O. pengzhongi sp. n. (Hainan, South China) are (re-)described and illustrated. The genus is now represented in China by eight described species, six of them are micropterous. The latest key to the Oedichirus species of China is modified to include the new species.