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| (A) Pseudoligota antennata comb. nov. (B) Pseudoligota nozakii sp. nov. Hashizume, Yamamoto & Maruyama, 2023 |
Abstract
The genus Pseudoligota Cameron, 1920 is discovered in Japan for the first time, resulting in two taxonomic changes: a new combination P. antennata (Bernhauer, 1907), comb. nov., and a new species P. nozakii Hashizume, Yamamoto & Maruyama, sp. nov. from Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The former species has long been placed in the genus Oligota Mannerheim, 1830. This is the fourth genus in the subtribe Gyrophaenina known from Japan. The species P. affinis Cameron, 1939 from India and Peninsular Malaysia is placed as a junior synonym of P. antennata.
Coleoptera, East Asia, Homalotini, Hypocyphtini, Gyrophaenina, rove beetle, taxonomy
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| Habitus of two species of Pseudoligota from Japan. (A) Pseudoligota antennata comb. nov. (B) Pseudoligota nozakii sp. nov. Scale bar: 0.5 mm. |
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| The living habitus and habitat of Pseudoligota spp. (A) P. antennata comb. nov. on fruiting body of fungi. (B) fruiting body of fungi from Fig. (A) on dead wood. (C) habitus of Pseudoligota nozakii sp. nov. (D) fruiting body of fungi on dead wood from which P. nozakii sp. nov. was obtained. (C–D: photo by T. Nozaki). |
Takuto HASHIZUME, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Munetoshi MARUYAMA. 2023. Taxonomic Notes on the Genus Pseudoligota Cameron (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Japan. Zootaxa. 5227(1); 100-108. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5227.1.4 [2023-01-04]
