Ocypus (Pseudocypus) densissimus
Creators: name: He, Liang
name: Zhou, Hong-Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Ocypus
Ocypus densissimus

description: 12. Ocypus (Pseudocypus) densissimus (Bernhauer, 1933)
(Figs. 12-1, 12-2)
Bernhauer, 1933: 35 (Staphylinus; subgenus Pseudocypus; Type locality: Kiang-Si: T’en-gan); Smetana & Davies, 2000: 43 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus); Herman, 2001: 3373 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; Catalog); Smetana, 2004: 677 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; Catalog of Palaearctic Region); Smetana, 2009a (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; redescription); Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 1091 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; Catalog of Palaearctic Region).
Material examined. CHINA: Sichuan Province: 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2585 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 6–9.V.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 3 females, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2585 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.V.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS);1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2585 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 6–9.VI.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2585 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.VI.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2585 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 6–9.VII.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2585 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 5–8.IX.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2585 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.IX.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 3 males, 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2610 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 6–9.V.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 male, 3 females, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2610 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.V.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2610 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 6–9.VI.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2610 m, forest, pitfall traps, 21–24.VI.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 male, 2 females, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2610 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.VI.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2610 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.VII.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 male, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2610 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 5–8.VIII.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 5 males, 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2610 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.IX.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 3 males, 2 females, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2615 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 6–9.V.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2615 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.V.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 male, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2615 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 6–9.VI.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2615 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.VI.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 male, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2615 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 5–8.IX.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ- CAS); 6 males, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2615 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.IX.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2650 m, forest, pitfall traps, 21–24.VI.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2650 m, weed field, pitfall traps, 21–24.VI.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2650 m, forest, pitfall traps, 21–24.VIII.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 female, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2650 m, forest, pitfall traps, 5–8.IX.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS); 1 male, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wulidun, 2650 m, forest, pitfall traps, 21–24.IX.2004, coll. Xiaodong Yu (IZ-CAS).
Measurements. Body length: 24.3–25.1 mm. CL: 0.85; EL: 3.46; ELS: 2.01; EW: 3.55; HL: 2.58; HW: 2.94; PO: 0.85; PL: 3.38; PW: 3.13.
Distribution. Ocypus densissimus is at present known from Jiangxi and Sichuan Province.
description: Published as part of He, Liang & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2017, Taxonomy of the subgenus Pseudocypus Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) and eight new species from China, pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4339 (1) on pages 39-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4339.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1037681