Description
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Length: 6.5–6.9 mm; length of forebody: 3.4–3.8 mm. Body glossy, vividly colored with head capsule black, pronotum and abdomen brown, elytra black with the apical margins more or less blackish-brown; antennae and mouthparts dark reddish, legs brownish red.
Head glossy, approximately as broad as long, vertex slightly convex. Punctures on head coarse and sparse, in median dorsal portion very sparse; interstices without microsculpture, but with micropunctation. Eyes relatively small and slightly protruding laterally. HL/EyL = 2.8, eyes shorter than postocular region in dorsal view. Antennae slender, about 1.9–2.0 mm long; all antennomeres oblong.
Pronotum oblong, PL/PW = 1.2, widest at its anterior third and approximately 1.2 times as broad as head, lateral margins straight; on either side of the impunctate midline with series of 13–16 punctures, some of these punctures often accompanied by additional punctures; punctures of lateral portions sparse to moderately dense; interstices without microsculpture.
Elytra parallel-sided, EL/EW = 8.5, slightly longer than pronotum; punctures on surface arranged in 5 series in dorsal view; interstices without microsculpture. Hind wings fully developed.
Abdomen approximately as broad as elytra, wider than head or pronotum; punctation very fine and dense; interstices with microsculpture; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe.
Aedeagus (Fig. 1D–F) about 1.25 mm long, length/width = 2.4. Dorsal plate fused with median lobe. Ventral process strongly sclerotized and curved (Fig. 1D, E). Internal sac with some strongly sclerotized structures.
Male sternite VII (Fig. 1C) with narrowly semicircular excision, margins of this excision slightly depressed; male sternite VIII (Fig. 1B) with posterior excision narrow and deep, not quite reaching middle of sternite.
Female sternites VII-VIII without any modifications.
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- Xiao-Yan Li, Alexey Solodovnikov, Hong-Zhang Zhou
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- Li X, Solodovnikov A, Zhou H (2013) The genus Pseudolathra Casey in China: new species and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) ZooKeys 356: 1–9
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- Xiao-Yan Li
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- Alexey Solodovnikov
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- Hong-Zhang Zhou
Distribution
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Pseudolathra cylindrata sp. n. is known only from the type locality: Jiulingtou in Zigui County, Hubei. The type series was collected in the period from June to September, the altitudes ranging from 100 to 200 m.
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- cc-by-3.0
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- Xiao-Yan Li, Alexey Solodovnikov, Hong-Zhang Zhou
- bibliographic citation
- Li X, Solodovnikov A, Zhou H (2013) The genus Pseudolathra Casey in China: new species and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) ZooKeys 356: 1–9
- author
- Xiao-Yan Li
- author
- Alexey Solodovnikov
- author
- Hong-Zhang Zhou