Stilicoderus continentalis Rougemont 2015, n. sp.
Creators: name: Rougemont, Guillaume De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stilicoderus
Stilicoderus continentalis

description: <i>Stilicoderus continentalis</i>n. sp. Cited as <i>Stilicoderus continentalis</i> in ASSING 2013 a: 59. Holotype (&amp;male;): China, Zhejiang Prov., Lin’an County, W. Tianmu shan N. R., V. 1996, flight interception trap, leg. J. COOTER (CRO). P a r a t y p e s: 1 &amp;female;, China, Zhejiang Prov., Anji County, Long Wang Shan N. R., 14. V. 1996, flight interception trap, leg. J. COOTER (CRO); 3 &amp;female;&amp;female;, China, Fujian Prov., Wuyi Shan, ca. 800 m, N 27º75′ E 117º68′, ca. 2 km NE Tongmu vill., flight interception trap, 4.– 7. VI. 2001, leg. J. COOTER &amp; P. HLAVÁ&amp;Ccaron; (CRO). F u r t h e r m a t e r i a l: 1 ex., China, Fujian Prov., Wuyi Shan, 1150 m, N 27º70′ E 117º64′, Qiliqiao–Guadun rd, 1. VI. 2001, mixed forest litter, leg. J. COOTER &amp; P. HLAVÁ&amp;Ccaron; (CRO); 1 &amp;male;, China, Sichuan Prov., Qingcheng Shan, NW Chengdu, 650– 700 m, 30.53.57 N 103.32.23 E, 3.– 4. VI. 1997, leg. M. SCHÜLKE, det. G. DE ROUGEMONT as <i>Stilicoderus formosanus continentalis</i> (CVA). Description Body length ca. 6.3 mm. Proportions of holotype: length of head: 91; breadth of head: 88; diameter of eye: 16; length of antenna: 153; length of pronotum: 86; breadth of pronotum: 76; length and breadth of elytra: 100; metatibia: 94; metatarsus: 58. Fore-body black, shiny, abdomen pitchy-black, labrum, mouthparts, antennae and legs reddish brown. Male: aedoeagus see Fig. 15; the parameroid lobes are broadly rounded apically, not acute as in <i>S. formosanus</i> (cf. aedoeagus of <i>S. formosanus</i>, ROUGEMONT 1996: 731, fig. 18); the apical process of the ventral blade is slightly differently shaped, broader and devoid of a small ventral tooth. Abdominal sternite VIII deeply emarginate, as in <i>S. formosanus</i>. Differential diagnosis <i>S. continentalis</i> n. sp. is similar in every respect to the <i>S. formosanus</i> except in its conspicuous pubescence and in the aedoeagus. The reddish brown pubescence of the head is fairly long (ca. 10) and erect; that of the pronotum and elytra is short (ca. 4) and erect. In <i>S. formosanus</i> the pubescence on all parts of the fore-body is very short (ca. 2) and inconspicuous. The apex of the ventral blade of the aedoeagus (Fig. 15) of the new species is characteristic, and like the difference in pubescence, is constant over the vast range encompassed by the distances between Fujian, Zhejiang and western Sichuan. Remark I had assumed that this new subspecies is the representative form of <i>S. formosanus</i> Rougemont 1996 (described from Taiwan) in mainland China, but ASSING (2013 a) records <i>S. formosanus</i> from Fujian.
description: Published as part of <i>Rougemont, Guillaume De, 2015, Studies on Stiliderus Motschulsky and Stilicoderus Sharp: biogeographical notes and descriptions of new species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 113-130 in Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 8</i> on page 123, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3833627
description: {"references": ["ASSING, V. (2013 a): New species and records of Stilicoderus and Stiliderus, primarily from the southern East Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). - Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 6: 57 - 82.", "ROUGEMONT, G. DE (1996): Stiliderus and Stilicoderus: New data and new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae). - Revue Suisse de Zoologie 103: 713 - 736."]}