Scaphidium grande Gestro 1880
Creators: name: Tang, Liang
name: Li, Li-Zhen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Scaphidium
Scaphidium grande

description: Key to the species of <i>Scaphidium grande</i> -complex 1. Mesofemora and metafemora black with reddish fascia............................. <b>2</b> – Mesofemora and metafemora totally black without reddish fascia............. <b>6</b> 2 Distinctly elongated body form; male profemora slender (Fig. 22), FW/ FL=0.14. Habitus (Figs 4, 5), aedeagus (Figs 19, 20). BL: 7.5–9.9 mm. China (Hainan)................................................................................. <i>S. longum</i> – Stout body form; male profemora stout, FW/FL&gt;0.155............................ <b>3</b> 3. Smaller body size, BL&lt;7.4 mm; male profemora (Fig. 26) with an acute angle at apical third, protibiae (Fig. 26) with a blunt angle before apical angle. Habitus (Figs 6, 7), aedeagus (Figs 23, 24). 5.9–7.3 mm. China (Anhui).... <i>S. spinatum</i> – Larger body size, BL&gt; 8.4 mm.................................................................... <b>4</b> 4. Wider body form, PL/PW of male no more than 0.75, PL/PW of female no more than 0.69; lateral sides of pronotum shallowly incurved near antebasal row of punctures; male protibia incurved................................................... <b>5</b> – Narrower body form, PL/PW of male: 0.79–0.84, PL/PW of female: 0.75– 0.77; lateral sides of pronotum almost straight near antebasal row of punctures; male protibia (Fig. 18) almost straight. Habitus (Figs 1–3), aedeagus (Figs 14–16, also see Fig. 71 in Löbl, 1992 and Fig. 10 in He et al., 2008). BL: 8.4–9.4 mm. China (Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hainan, Taiwan), Burma, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam................................................ <i>S. grande</i> 5. Male profemora strongly swollen at basal 2/3 forming a blunt angle at apical third, protibiae = 2.8 mm (Fig. 30). Habitus (Figs 8, 9), aedeagus (Figs 27, 28). BL: 8.9–9.4 mm. China (Yunnan).......................................... <i>S. laxum</i> – Male profemora not swollen, protibiae = 3.6 mm (Fig. 34). Habitus (Figs 10, 11), aedeagus (Figs 31, 32). BL: 10.1 mm. China (Yunnan).... <i>S. inflexitibiale</i> 6. Last antennal segment (Fig. 41) light brown in about apical third. Habitus (Fig. 2 in He, 2009, regarded as <i>S. dureli</i>), aedeagus (Figs 39, 40). BL: 8.0– 9.1 mm. China (Xizang).............................................................. <i>S. liui</i> – Last antennal segment (Fig. 37) entirely blackish. Habitus (Figs 12, 13), aedeagus (Figs 35, 36). BL: 6.8–9.5 mm. China (Guizhou).................. <i>S. reni</i>
description: Published as part of <i>Tang, Liang &amp; Li, Li-Zhen, 2010, On Scaphidium grande-complex (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae), pp. 65-78 in ZooKeys 43 (43)</i> on pages 67-68, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.43.447, http://zenodo.org/record/576659
description: {"references": ["Lobl I (1992) The Scaphidiidae (Coleoptera) of the Nepal Himalaya. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 99 (3): 471 - 627.", "He WJ, Tang L, Li LZ (2008) Notes on the genus Scaphidium Olivier of China with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae). The Entomological Review of Japan 62 (2): 177 - 182.", "He WJ, Tang L, Li LZ (2009) A new species and a new record species of the genus Scaphidium Olivier (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae) from China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 34 (3): 481 - 484."]}