Quedius (Raphirus) muscicola Cameron 1932
Creators: name: Cai, Yan-Peng
name: Zhou, Hong-Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Quedius
Quedius muscicola

description: Quedius (Raphirus) muscicola Cameron, 1932
(Figs. 15, 15-1)
Cameron, 1932: 295 (Quedius; subgenus Raphirus; Type locality: India, Ghum district); Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1450 (catalog); Scheerpeltz, 1965: 112 (Myanmar); Smetana, 1988: 253 (lectotype designation; redescription; India, Myanmar, Nepal); Smetana, 1992: 5 (Nepal); Smetana, 1997: 131 (China (Yunnan)); Herman, 2001: 3214 (world catalog); Smetana, 2004: 667 (catalog for Palaearctic region); Smetana, 2012a: 44 (redescription; China (Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan)).
Quedius (Raphirus) dohertyi Cameron, 1932: 297 (Quedius; subgenus Raphirus; Type locality: Myanmar, Ruby Mines); Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1438 (catalog); Smetana, 1988: 253 (synonym of muscicola); Herman, 2001: 3214 (world catalog); Smetana, 2004: 667 (catalog for Palaearctic region).
Quedius (Raphirus) heterogaster Cameron, 1944: 14 (Quedius; subgenus Raphirus; Type locality: India, Chakrata district, Kanasar); Smetana, 1988: 253 (lectotype designation; synonym of muscicola); Herman, 2001: 3215 (world catalog); Smetana, 2004: 667 (catalog for Palaearctic region).
Material examined. CHINA: Sichuan Province: 1 ♂, Wan County, Wangerbao Nature Reserve, 28. V. 1994, coll. Xingke Yang; 1 ♂, Dujiangyan City, Qingcheng Mountain, 4. VI. 1997, coll. Haisheng Zhou; 4 ♂♂, 9 ♀, Baoxing County, Fengtongzhai Nature Reserve, 6–7. VI. 1997, coll. Haisheng Zhou; 1 ♂, Baoxing County, Yongfu, Pujigou, 2300 m, 11–14. VIII. 2003, coll. Xiaodong Yu; 1 ♂, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2460 m, 5–8. VIII. 2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu; 1 ♀, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2270 m, 22–25. IX. 2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Dujiangyan City, Qingcheng Mountain, 21. VIII. 2005, coll. Yejun Zhang; 1 ♀, Dujiangyan City, Qingcheng Mountain, 23. VIII. 2005, coll. Xiaoyan Li; 1 ♂, Dujiangyan City, Longchi Mountain, 26. VIII. 2005, coll. Caiyun Zhao; 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, Dujiangyan City, Longchi Mountain, 1800 m, 26. VIII. 2005, coll. Xiaoyan Li; 1 ♂, Emeishan City, Emei Mountain, 28. VIII. 2005, coll. Caiyun Zhao; 2 ♀♀, Emeishan City, Emei Mountain, 28. VIII. 2005, coll. Yejun Zhang; 2 ♀♀, Emeishan City, Emei Mountain, 1200 m, 29. VIII. 2005, coll. Xiaoyan Li; 1 ♀, Baoxing County, Fengtongzhai Nature Reserve, Dashuigou, 1500 m, 2. IX. 2005, coll. Hongzhang Zhou and Caiyun Zhao; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, Baoxing County, Fengtongzhai Nature Reserve, Dashuigou, 1500 m, 3. IX. 2005, coll. Caiyun Zhao; 4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Baoxing County, Fengtongzhai Nature Reserve, Dashuigou, 1500 m, 2–3. IX. 2005, coll. Xiaoyan Li; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Lushan County, Longmen Village, 15. X. 2005, coll. Haifeng Chen.
Measurements. BL = 6.9 mm, BW = 1.4 mm, HL/PL/EL = 1.00: 1.10: 1.30, HW/PW/EW/AW = 1.00: 1.11: 1.42: 1.27, HW/HL = 1.02, HEL/HTL = 8.96, PW/PL = 1.03, EW/EL = 1.11, ESL/EL = 0.55.
Distribution. Quedius muscicola Cameron is known from Myanmar, and from the mountain areas from the Himalayan range (India, Nepal) to southwestern China (Gansu, Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan Province), at altitudes from 650 m to 2800 m. Many of the examined specimens were collected in bushes, stacks of withered grass, leaf litter, or at the edges of creeks.
description: Published as part of Cai, Yan-Peng & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2015, Taxonomy of the subgenus Quedius (Raphirus) Stephens (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini: Quediina) with descriptions of four new species from China, pp. 151-196 in Zootaxa 3990 (2) on page 188, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245442