Pseudolathra lineata Herman 2003
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pseudolathra
Pseudolathra lineata

description: Pseudolathra lineata HERMAN, 2003 (Figs 15-19, Map 1)
Lathrobium seriatum Sharp 1889: 259; preoccupied.
Pseudolathra lineata Herman 2003: 7; replacent name.
Type material examined:
Lectotype ♂ [dissected prior to present study], present designation: “ Lathrobium seriatum. Type D.S. Yokohama, Lewis [written on mounting label] / Japan. G. Lewis. / Type / Sharp Coll 1905- 313. / Aedeagus at rest turned to 180° in abdomen / Pseudolathra seriata (Sharp) ♂, V.I. Gusarov det. 1992 / Lectotypus ♂ Lathrobium seriatum Sharp, desig. V. Assing 2012 / Pseudolathra lineata Herman, det. V. Assing 2012” (BMNH).
Additional material examined:
China: 3 ♂♂, Jiangsu, Nanjing, Agricultural University, VII.1991, leg. Cooter (MMUM, cAss).
Comment:
The original description of L. seriatum is based on “two examples” from “Yokohama” (Sharp 1889). The name is a junior primary homonym and was replaced with the nomen novum Pseudolathra lineata by Herman (2003). The above type specimen, a male in good condition, is designated as the lectotype.
Redescription:
Body length 4.9-5.8 mm; length of forebody 2.9-3.1 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 15. Coloration: head blackish-brown; pronotum and elytra reddish, with the postero-lateral portion of the elytra more or less extensively infuscate; abdomen dark-reddish; legs and antennae reddishyellow.
Head (Fig. 16) approximately as broad as long; punctation coarse and sparse, in median dorsal portion very sparse; interstices without microsculpture, but with micropunctation, and glossy. Eyes large, longer than postocular region in dorsal view. Antennae slender, 1.9 mm long; all antennomeres oblong.
Pronotum (Fig. 16) approximately 1.15 times as long as broad and approximately 1.05 times as broad as head; on either side of the impunctate midline with series of approximately 15 punctures, these punctures partly accompanied by additional punctures; punctation of lateral portions unevenly distributed; interstices without microsculpture.
Elytra (Fig. 16) 1.0-1.1 times as long as pronotum; laterally with fine submarginal carina; punctation moderately coarse, arranged in several series; interstices without microsculpture. Hind wings fully developed.
Abdomen distinctly narrower than elytra; punctation very fine and dense; interstices with microsculpture; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe.
♂: protarsomeres I-IV strongly dilated; sternite VII with almost truncate posterior margin, pubescence unmodified; sternite VIII oblong, posterior excision narrow and deep, almost reaching middle of sternite (Fig. 17); aedeagus 0.9 mm long, shaped as in Figs 18-19.
♀: not available.
Distribution:
Pseudolathra lineata was previously known only from Japan. The above specimens from Jiangsu (Map 1) represent the first record from China. They were collected in the same locality as P. regularis.
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2012, The Pseudolathra species of the East Palaearctic and the Oriental regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 299-330 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 on pages 310-311, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.299-330, http://zenodo.org/record/5873469