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Male (Fig. 10B). Length 3.14–3.33. Head longer than wide, HL 0.69–0.72, HW 0.63–0.65; eyes each composed of about 40 facets. Antennal clubs as in Fig. 12A. Pronotum (Fig. 12B) slightly longer than wide, PL 0.65–0.68, PW 0.63–0.65, rounded at anterolateral margins. Elytra wider than long, EL 0.95–1.00, EW 1.28–1.32. Metaventral processes broad, apically narrowed (Fig. 12C). Protrochanters and profemora spinose ventrally (Fig. 12D), protibiae with tiny apical spur (Fig. 12E); mesotrochanters with two ventral spines, mesofemora simple (Fig. 12F); metatrochanters and metafemora simple (Fig. 12G). Abdomen broad at base and narrowed apically, AL 0.85–0.93, AW 1.26–1.31. Sternite IX as in Fig. 12H. Aedeagus length 0.61, with asymmetric median lobe (Figs 12I–K).
Female. Similar to male in general; BL 3.28–3.43, HL 0.75–0.80, HW 0.62–0.69, PL 0.71–0.72, PW 0.67–0.68, EL 0.87–0.93, EW 1.28–1.35, AL 0.95–0.98, AW 1.35–1.46. Eyes each composed of about 30 facets. Antennae unmodified; metaventral processes absent.
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- Zi-Wei Yin, Peter Hlaváč, Li-Zhen Li
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- Yin Z, Hlaváč P, Li L (2013) Further studies on the Pselaphodes complex of genera from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) ZooKeys 275: 23–65
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- Zi-Wei Yin
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- Peter Hlaváč
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- Li-Zhen Li