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Measurements and ratios:BL 8.50–9.30, FL 3.00–3.63, HL 1.13–1.15, HW 1.26–1.31, PL 1.48–1.54, PW 1.30–1.35, EL 0.98–1.00, HL/HW 0.88–0.90, HW/PW 0.97, HL/PL 0.75–0.76, PL/PW 1.14, EL/PL 0.65–0.66.
Habitus as in Fig. 1A. Body brown with paler apex, legs light brown, antennae brown to light brown.
Head subquadrate (HL/HW 0.88–0.90); punctation coarse and sparse; interstices with very shallow microreticulation; eyes small, approximately 1/4–1/3 the length of postocular region in dorsal view.
Pronotum nearly parallel-sided; punctation sparser than that of head; impunctate midline broad; interstices without microsculpture.
Elytra with punctation denser than that of pronotum and well defined; hind wings completely reduced.
Abdomen with dense punctation; interstices with very shallow, transversely striate microsculpture.
Male. Sternite V (Fig. 3A) with dark setae in postero-median impression and posterior margin with several point-like setae; sternite VI (Fig. 3B) with sparse, short setae in postero-median impression and posterior margin with 7–8 peg-like setae; posterior margin of sternite VII (Fig. 3C) weakly concave, pubescence unmodified; sternite VIII (Fig. 3D) with deep asymmetric emargination and blackish setae along both sides of this emargination; sternite IX (Fig. 3E) asymmetric; aedeagus (Fig. 3F, 3G) with asymmetric, apically truncate ventral process, short and moderately sclerotized dorsal plate, and without sclerotized spines in internal sac.
Female. Unknown.
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- Zhong Peng, Li-Zhen Li, Mei-Jun Zhao
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- Peng Z, Li L, Zhao M (2012) Five new apterous species of the genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) from the Baishanzu Natural Reserve, East China ZooKeys 251: 69–81
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- Zhong Peng
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- Li-Zhen Li
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- Mei-Jun Zhao
Distribution
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East China: Donggong mountain range.
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- Zhong Peng, Li-Zhen Li, Mei-Jun Zhao
- bibliographic citation
- Peng Z, Li L, Zhao M (2012) Five new apterous species of the genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) from the Baishanzu Natural Reserve, East China ZooKeys 251: 69–81
- author
- Zhong Peng
- author
- Li-Zhen Li
- author
- Mei-Jun Zhao