Description
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Body (Fig. 1A) length: 5.5–5.8 mm. Coloration: fore body brownish; abdomen blackish, with the posterior margins of the segments reddish-brown; leg and antennae reddish-brown.
Head (Fig. 1A) almost 1.2 times as wide as long; widest just behind eyes; surface finely reticulate, covered with short golden setae. Antennae (Fig. 1D) about 2.2 mm long, shorter than head, pronotum and elytra combined; antennomeres VI–X distinctly transverse. Pronotum (Fig. 1E) 1.35 times as wide as long and 1.37 times as wide as head; widest around anterior third, narrowed posteriorly; posterior margin almost rounded; covered with short golden setae, with six macrosetae; hypomera fully visible in lateral view. Elytra (Fig. 1A) about 1.9 times as long as pronotum; covered with short golden setae; humeral angle with one macrosetae. Hind wings fully developed. Abdomen (Fig. 1A) widest at segments IV–V; surface with transverse microsculpture.
Male. Posterior margin of head distinctly angled at middle (Fig. 1B); posterior margin of tergite VIII broadly concave and finely crenulate (Fig. 1F); posterior margin of sternite VIII (Fig. 1H) almost truncate; median lobe of aedeagus as in Figs 1J–L.
Female. Posterior margin of head indistinctly angled at middle (Fig. 1C); tergite VIII (Fig. 1G) and sternite VIII (Fig. 1I) distinctly shorter than that of male; spermatheca as in Fig. 1M.
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- Xiao-Bin Song, Li-Zhen Li
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- Song X, Li L (2013) Description of Pella maoershanensis sp. n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) associated with Lasius spathepus from Guangxi, South China ZooKeys 275: 17–21
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- Xiao-Bin Song
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- Li-Zhen Li