Nazeris Fauvel 1873
Creators: name: Li, Li-Zhen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Nazeris

description: Key to species of Nazeris in Guangxi, China
1 Head with non-umbilicate punctation (Fig. 15)........................................... N. alatus Hu & Li, sp. n.
- Head with umbilicate punctation..........................................................................2
2 Abdomen with fine microsculpture on all tergites........................................... N. qini Hu & Li, 2012
- Abdomen lacking microsculpture.........................................................................3
3 Body reddish brown, less than 6.0 mm.....................................................................4
- Body dark brown, more than 6.4 mm .....................................................................10
4 Dorso-lateral apophyses of aedeagus extending to the same level as or only slightly beyond apex of the median lobe....... 5
- Dorso-lateral apophyses of aedeagus extending much beyond apex of median lobe..................................6
5 Ventral process of aedeagus narrow, constricted to sharp apex in ventral view (Hu et al. 2012: 36, Fig. 4).............................................................................................. N. dayaoensis Hu & Li, 2012
- Ventral process of aedeagus conspicuously broad, with round apex in ventral view (Assing 2016: 307, Fig. 11)............
............................................................................... N. latilobatus Assing, 2016 6 Ventral process of aedeagus nearly triangular, with narrow apex in ventral view (Assing 2016: 309, Fig. 16)................................................................................................ N. obtortus Assing, 2016
- Ventral process of aedeagus broad, with wide apex in ventral view...............................................7
7 Ventral process of aedeagus provided with a pair of apicad narrow processes on dorsal side of apex (Hu et al. 2012: 38, Fig. 12) N. luoi Hu & Li, 2012
- Ventral process of aedeagus lacking processes near apex.......................................................8
8 Ventral process of aedeagus with round apex in ventral view and with a pair of round basal laminae ventrally (Hu et al. 2013: 87, Fig. 4).................................................................. N. damingshanus Hu & Li, 2013
- Ventral process of aedeagus with truncate apex in ventral view and with a pair of thin basal laminae ventrally............9
9 Dorso-lateral apophyses of aedeagus roundly widened at apex in ventral view (Fig. 13)..... N. huapingensis Hu & Li, sp. n.
- Dorso-lateral apophyses of aedeagus narrowed at apex in ventral view (Hu et al. 2012: 39, Fig. 16).... N. tani Hu & Li, 2012
10 Male sternite VII with small semi-circular emargination in middle of posterior margin (Hu et al. 2012: 41, Fig. 26)....................................................................................... N. megalobus Hu & Li, 2012
- Male sternite VII lacking emargination in middle of posterior margin............................................ 11
11 Dorso-lateral apophyses of aedeagus extending beyond apex of ventral process (Fig. 28)...... N. chenyanae Hu & Li, sp. n.
- Dorso-lateral apophyses of aedeagus not reaching apex of ventral process........................................12
12 Dorso-lateral apophysis of aedeagus greatly expanded in apical half (Hu et al. 2012: 42, Fig. 34)... N. grandis Hu & Li, 2012
- Dorso-lateral apophysis of aedeagus slender, not expanded in apical half.........................................13
13 Ventral process of aedeagus extremely elongate, about twice as long as dorso-lateral apophysis (Hu et al. 2013: 88, Fig. 10)................................................................................ N. longilobus Hu & Li, 2013
- Ventral process of aedeagus not extremely elongate..........................................................14
14 Apex of ventral process of aedeagus divided into two straight branches in ventral view (Fig. 23).... N. exilis Hu & Li, sp. n.
- Ventral process of aedeagus with round apex (Assing 2016: 307, Fig. 4)..................... N. bihamatus Assing, 2016
description: Published as part of Li, Li-Zhen, 2017, Four new species of Nazeris Fauvel in Guangxi, China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae), pp. 333-342 in Zootaxa 4312 (2) on pages 340-341, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/852914