A new species and some new distribution records of the genus Apatetica Westwood from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Apateticinae)

Jin-Kang Chang; Harald Schillhammer; Liang Tang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1212.130072

A new species and some new distribution records of the genus Apatetica Westwood from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Apateticinae)

Zookeys. 2024 Sep 13:1212:65-77. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1212.130072. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Jin-Kang Chang¹, Harald Schillhammer², Liang Tang¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234, China Shanghai Normal University Shanghai China.
² Natural History Museum Vienna, International Research Institute for Entomology, Burgring 7, A - 1010 Wien, Austria Natural History Museum Vienna, International Research Institute for Entomology Wien Austria.

Abstract

Five species of Apatetica Westwood, 1848 from China are recorded and illustrated: Apateticaangusticollis sp. nov. from Sichuan, A.confusa Assing, 2018 from Yunnan, A.intermedia Cameron, 1930 from Sichuan, A.laevicollis Fauvel, 1904 from Guangdong and Guangxi, and A.sikkimi Fauvel, 1895 from Xizang. The last four are new to China. The new species is described, and a photograph of a living specimen is presented. Apateticaintermedia and A.sikkimi are redescribed and diagnosed. A key to Chinese species of the genus is provided.

Keywords: Apateticinae; Guangdong; Guangxi; Oriental region; Sichuan; Xizang; Yunnan; identification key.

Jin-Kang Chang, Harald Schillhammer, Liang Tang.