Six new species of Horniella Raffray from the Oriental region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

Wen-Xuan Zhang; Fang-Shuo Hu; Zi-Wei Yin

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1042.66576

Six new species of Horniella Raffray from the Oriental region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

Zookeys. 2021 Jun 4:1042:1-22. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1042.66576. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Wen-Xuan Zhang¹, Fang-Shuo Hu², Zi-Wei Yin¹

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200234, China Shanghai Normal University Shanghai China.
² Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University 145 Xingda Rd., South District, Taichung City 402, Taiwan, China National Chung Hsing University Taichung China.

Abstract

The Oriental pselaphine genus Horniella Raffray, 1905 currently contains 29 species. In this paper, six new species are described: H. nantouensis Zhang, Hu & Yin, sp. nov. and H. taiwanensis Zhang, Hu & Yin, sp. nov. from Taiwan, China; H. bifurca Zhang & Yin, sp. nov. and H. haucki Zhang & Yin, sp. nov. from Thailand; H. khasiensis Zhang & Yin, sp. nov. from northern India; and H. sabahensis Zhang & Yin, sp. nov. from eastern Malaysia. In addition, H. aculeata Yin & Li, 2015, originally described from Yunnan, China, is newly recorded from Thailand.

Keywords: Ant-loving beetles; Asia; new record; new taxa; species list; taxonomy.

Wen-Xuan Zhang, Fang-Shuo Hu, Zi-Wei Yin.