DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15153002
title: Table 2 in Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Liotesba Scheerpeltz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae: Xantholinini) with descriptions of four new species

description: Table 2. List of characters used in the phylogenetic analysis.
1.Body, length: (0) shorter than 10 mm; (1) longer than 10 mm.2.Head, colour: (0) black or dark brown; (1) dark reddish brown or ferruginous.3.Elytra, colour: (0) black or dark brown; (1) reddish brown; (2) yellowish brown.4.Head, shape: (0) subquadrate (HL/HW <1.2); (1) subrectangular (HL/HW> 1.2).5.Head, lateral margin: (0) substraight; (1) parenthesis-shaped; (2) expanded.6.Head, posterior angle, shape: (0) rounded and not protruding; (1) arcuately protrudinglaterad; (2) subangulate.7.Head, microsculpture: (0) absent; (1) present.8.Head, epistoma, width: (0) narrow; (1) wide; (2) absent.9.Head, epistoma, shape: (0) acute; (1) broad and subrectangular.10.Tempora, punctures distribution: (0) absent; (1) one row; (2) more than one row.11.Eye, furrow around inner side of eye: (0) deep and distinct; (1) not clear.12.Eye, number of punctures next to dorsal margin of eye: (0) less than 4; (1) more than 4.13.Eye, size: (0) small, shorter than 0.4 of temple length; (1) medium, 0.4–0.5 of templelength; (2) large, over 0.5 of temple length.14.Eye, large punctures row behind eye: (0) absent; (1) present.15.Frontal furrow: (0) absent; (1) short; (2) obviously long.16.Anteocular furrow: (0) absent; (1) present.17.Antennae, shape of antennomere II: (0) elongate; (1) subspherical.18.Antennae, ratio of antennomere II to III: (0) <1; (1)> 1.19.Antennae, length of last antennomere: (0) as long as two preceding combined;(1) distinctly shorter than two preceding combined; (2) longer than two precedingcombined.20.Antennae, interval: (0) subequal to distance from antenna to eye; (1) distinctly shorterthan that form antenna to eye; (2) longer than distance from antenna to eye.21.Labrum, middle teeth, shape: (0) slight protruding; (1) obviously protruding.22.Labrum, lateral teeth: (0) absent; (1) present.23.Labrum, lateral teeth, shape: (0) slight protruding; (1) obviously protruding.24.Mandibles, inner tooth of right mandible: (0) sharpen; (1) crenulated.25.Maxillary palpi, shape of apical segment: (0) subcylindrical; (1) fusiform; (2) aciculate.26.Maxillary palpi, longest palpi: (0) segment II; (1) segment III.27.Neck, width: (0) narrower 0.4 of head width; (1) equal to or wider than 0.4 of headwidth.28.Pronotum, shape: (0) oblong (PL / PW <1.4); (1) distinctly oblong (PL / PW> 1.4).29.Pronotum, lateral margin: (0) subparalleled or slightly convergent backwards;(1) distinctly convergent backwards.30.Pronotum, microsculpture: (0) absent; (1) present.31.Pronotum, punctate pattern: (0) not in row; (1) two pairs of rows32.Mesoscutellum, punctures, distribution: (0) irregular; (1) regular.33.Mesoscutellum, microsculpture: (0) absent; (1) transverse microstriae; (2) polygonalreticulum.34.Protarsi: (0) not dilated; (1) dilated.35.Protibia, subapical ctenidium: (0) absent; (1) present.36.Elytra, shape: (0) oblong (1<EL/EW <1.3); (1) distinctly oblong (EL/EW> 1.3);(2) broad (EL/EW <1).37.Elytra, punctate pattern: (0) four or five rows; (1) fully covered.38.Elytra, punctate rows along median suture, number: (0) one row; (1) two or three rows.39.Abdomen, microsculpture: (0) not clear; (1) clear.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Yu-Lingzi & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2013, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Liotesba Scheerpeltz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae: Xantholinini) with descriptions of four new species, pp. 2873 in Journal of Natural History 47 (45 - 46) on page 2873, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791936, http://zenodo.org/record/5198102