Notes on the Stenus cirrus group of Zhejiang, East China, with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

Sheng-Nan Liu; Liang Tang; Rong-Ting Luo

doi:10.3897/zookeys.684.13524

Notes on the Stenus cirrus group of Zhejiang, East China, with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

Zookeys. 2017 Jul 11:(684):75-84. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.684.13524. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Sheng-Nan Liu¹, Liang Tang¹, Rong-Ting Luo¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, 1st Educational Building 323 Room, Shanghai, 200234 P. R. China.

Abstract

Two new Stenus species of the cirrus group collected from Zhejiang Province, East China, are described, S. wuyanlingus Liu, Tang & Luo, sp. n., S. yuyimingi Liu, Tang & Luo, sp. n. and a new distributional locality for S. ovalis Tang, Li & Zhao, 2005 was discovered. The diagnostic characters of the new species are illustrated, and a key to species of the group from Zhejiang Province is provided.

Keywords: China; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Stenus cirrus group; Zhejiang; new species.