Description
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Measurements (in mm) and ratios: BL 6.78, FL 2.68, HL 0.83, HW 0.85, PL 1.11, PW 0.93, EL 0.56, AL 1.46, HL/HW 0.98, HW/PW 0.91, HL/PL 0.75, PL/PW 1.19, EL/PL 0.50.
Habitus as in Fig. 10A. Body reddish brown with paler apex, legs light brown, antennae reddish brown to yellowish brown.
Head subquadrate; punctation moderately coarse and sparse, sparser in median dorsal portion; interstices with fine microreticulation; eyes 1/4 times as long as postocular region in dorsal view.
Pronotum nearly parallel-sided; punctation somewhat denser than that of head; impunctate midline broad; interstices without microsculpture.
Elytra 0.50 times as long as pronotum; punctation moderately dense, defined or weakly defined. Hind wings completely reduced.
Abdomen with fine and dense punctation, that of tergite VII sparser than that of anterior tergites; interstices with shallow microsculpture; posterior margin of tergite VII without palisade fringe.
Male. Sternites III-VI unmodified; sternite VII (Fig. 11A) transverse and deeply impressed in postero-median portion, this impression with several long dark setae, posterior margin weakly concave in the middle; sternite VIII (Fig. 11B) distinctly asymmetric and broadly impressed in postero-median portion, this impression with dense dark long setae, posterior margin broadly concave; sternite IX (Fig. 11G) asymmetric; aedeagus as in Figs 11D, 11E; ventral process long and asymmetric in ventral view; dorsal plate long and thin; internal sac with straight moderately sclerotized spine.
Female. Unknown.
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- Zhong Peng, Li-Zhen Li, Mei-Jun Zhao
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- Peng Z, Li L, Zhao M (2013) Eight new apterous Lathrobium species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Sichuan, Southwest China ZooKeys 303: 1–21
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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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The species is known only from one locality in Micang Shan, Sichuan. The holotype was collected by sifting dry leaf litter and moss on a southward slope with Prunus at an altitude of 1,800 m (Fig. 16).
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- Zhong Peng, Li-Zhen Li, Mei-Jun Zhao
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- Peng Z, Li L, Zhao M (2013) Eight new apterous Lathrobium species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Sichuan, Southwest China ZooKeys 303: 1–21
- author
- Zhong Peng
- author
- Li-Zhen Li
- author
- Mei-Jun Zhao