Paraphloeostiba Steel 1960
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Paraphloeostiba

description: Key to species of Paraphloeostiba of China and Laos
1 Pronotum slightly flattened, with acute posterior angles....................................................... 2
- Pronotum convex, with obtuse posterior angles.............................................................. 6
2 Parameres wide, significantly extending beyond apex of median lobe............................................ 3
- Parameres short, not reaching apex of median lobe........................................................... 5
3 Median lobe very wide (Figs. 1–2). Body brown. Female accessory sclerite as in Fig. 10. Body length: 2.00– 2.50 mm. China (Yunnan).................................................................................... P. ampliata
- Median lobe narrower. Body slightly darker................................................................ 4
4 Parameres very long, narrow in apical portions, with several moderately long apical setae (see figure 21 in Shavrin & Smetana 2016). Apical portion of female accessory sclerite narrow (Shavrin & Smetana 2016: figure 11). Body length: 2.10–2.30 mm. Myanmar, Taiwan ............................................................................... P. sonani
- Parameres shorter, wider in apical portion, with very long apical and preapical setae (Fig. 4). Apical portion of female accessory sclerite moderately wide (Steel 1960: figure 81). Body length: 1.90–2.10 mm. Indonesia (Sumatra), China (Hong Kong).............................................................................................. P. sulcicollis
5 Pronotum narrow, without impression in medioapical third. Body brown. Apex of median lobe narrow, acute (Figs. 15, 17). Female accessory sclerite with wide and short apical portion (Fig. 22). Body smaller: 1.50–1.82. Laos ........ P. brancuccii
- Pronotum disitnctly transverse, with narrow impression in medioapical third. Body yellow-brown to reddish-brown. Apex of median lobe moderately wide, rounded (Figs. 28, 30). Female accessory sclerite with narrow and long apical portion (Fig. 35). Body larger: 2.13–3.32. Vietnam, Laos .......................................................... P. opacicollis
6 Pronotum from middle more sharply narrowed posteriad than anteriad. Body brown. Parameres not reaching apex of median lobe (Fig. 23). Body length: 1.90 mm. China (Zhejiang)................................................ P. cooteri
- Pronotum from middle evenly narrowed both anteriad and posteriad. Coloration different. Parameres extending beyond apex of median lobe......................................................................................... 7
7 Punctation of pronotum and elytra moderately fine and sparse. Head, pronotum, and abdomen brown, elytra yellow-brown. Median lobe slightly narrowed apically; parameres narrow (Fig. 25). Female accessory sclerite with narrow and long apical portion (Steel 1960: figure 99). Body length: 1.70–3.30 mm. Europe, China, North America, Australia, New Zealand .............................................................................................. P. gayndahensis
- Punctation of pronotum and elytra deep and dense. Body yellow-brown to red-brown. Median lobe significantly narrowed apically; parameres wide (Fig. 5). Female accessory sclerite with wide and short apical portion (Shavrin & Smetana 2016: figure 5; Shavrin 2017: figure 17). Body length: 1.80–2.50 mm. China, Taiwan, Vietnam ........................ P. formosana
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2020, New species and records of Paraphloeostiba Steel, 1960 from China and Laos and descriptions of four new species of related genera (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae Omaliinae: Omaliini), pp. 301-329 in Zootaxa 4890 (3) on page 317, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4306124