Tachinus (Tachinoderus) ohbayashii Li, Zhao & Sakai 2001
Creators: name: Chang, Yuan
name: Li, Li-Zhen
name: Yin, Zi-Wei
name: Schülke, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Tachinus
Tachinus ohbayashii

description: Tachinus (Tachinoderus) ohbayashii Li, Zhao & Sakai, 2001
Chinese Common Name: 大林氏圆胸隐翅虫
(Figs 8–9, 12)
Tachinus (Tachinoderus) ohbayashii Li, Zhao & Sakai, 2001: 237.
Type locality. Mt. West Tianmu, Linan City, Zhejiang Province, China.
Type material examined. Holotype Ƌ: ‘ China: Zhejiang Prov., Linan City (临安市), Mt. West Tianmu (西天 目山), 7–12.IX.1999, Li-Zhen Li leg. ’ Paratypes: 3 ♀♀, same label date as Holotype.
Additional material examined (48 exs): 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀ & 7 exs: ‘ China: Zhejiang province, Tie (a!)nmushan, leg. G. de Rougemont’ (1 ♂, 1 ♀ in cSch; 7 exs in cRou); 14 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀: ‘ China: Zhejiang Prov., Longquan City (龙泉 市), Fengyangshan (凤阳山), alt. 1450–1600 m, 22.VII.2006, Shen & Li leg.’ (SNUC); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: ‘ China: Zhejiang province, Mt. Longwang (龙王山), 300–500 m, 23./ 24.IV.2004, leg. Liang Tang’ (cSch); 2 ♂♂: ‘ China: Jiangxi prov. [MF12], Jinggangshan Mts. (井冈山), Huyagta, 26°29.9’N, 114°07.3’E, 1490 m, large accumulation of moist leaf litter at side of stream in dense bush, 28.iv.2011, leg. Fikáček, Hájek, Kubeček, Jia, Song & Zhao’ (NMPC, cSch); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: ‘ China: Hunan Prov., Chenzhou (郴州), Yizhang Hsien (宜章县), Mangshan N. R. (莽山), 24°56’26’’N, 112°59’18’’E, mixed forest, leaf litter, wood sifted & beating, 1400 m, 26.iv.2015, Peng, Tu, Zhou leg.’ (SNUC); 1 ♂: ‘ China: NW-Hunan, Wulingyuan (武陵源), N Dayong suoxiyu (大勇索溪峪), 450 m, 31.X.1993, leg. H. Schillhammer’ (NHMW); 2 ♂♂: ‘ China: Fujian Prov., Wuyishan City (武夷山市), Guadun (挂 墩), 27°44’ N, 117°38’ E, alt. 1300–1500 m, 27.v.2012, Peng & Dai leg.’ (SNUC); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: ‘ China: Guangdong Prov., Shaoguan City (韶关市), Nanling N. R. (南岭自然保护区), 16.VIII.2010, alt. 700 m, Liang Tang leg.’ (SNUC); 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀: ‘ China: Guangdong prov. [MF16], W of Qixing, Heishiding Nature Reserve (黑石顶自然保 护区), 23°27.9’N, 111°54.3’E, 190–250 m, sifting of moist leaf litter in dried-up stream-beds and along streams in primary lowland forest, 1–3.v.2011, Fikáček & Hájek’ (1 ♂, 2 ♀♀ in NMPC; 1 ♀ in cSch); 1 ♀: ‘ China: Guangxi Prov., Mt. Maoershan (猫儿山), 25°54’ N, 110°27’ E, alt. 1650 m, 24.VII.2012, Hu J.Y. & Song X.B. leg.’ (SNUC).
Comparative notes. This species, originally described from Zhejiang based on four specimens, is characterized and readily distinguishable from all congeners by the five-lobed female tergite VIII. Additional collecting data provided here proves that T. ohbayashii is widely distributed in eastern and southern China. The diagnostic features (Figs 8–9, 12) of all populations seem of little variation.
Distribution. China: Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi (Fig. 12). New provincial records.
description: Published as part of Chang, Yuan, Li, Li-Zhen, Yin, Zi-Wei & Schülke, Michael, 2019, A review of the Tachinus longicornis - group of the subgenus Tachinoderus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae) from China, pp. 478-494 in Zootaxa 4545 (4) on pages 488-489, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2618275