Pselaphodes symmetricus Huang & Yin, 2020

Huang, Meng-Chi & Yin, Zi-Wei, 2020, Validation of five Pselaphodes species names in Huang & Yin (2019): The Pselaphodes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) of Nepal, Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (1), pp. 241-242 : 242

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0016
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scientific name	Pselaphodes symmetricus Huang & Yin
status	sp. nov.

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Pselaphodes symmetricus Huang & Yin , sp. nov.

Type material (3 ex.): Holotype; MHNG- ENTO-44079; ♂; NEPAL, “ NEPAL: distr. Kathmandu: Phulcoki , 2500 m, 30.IV.84, Löbl – Smetana” ( MHNG) . – Paratypes; MHNG-ENTO-44080; 1 ♀; NEPAL, same label data as holotype . – MHNG-ENTO-44081; 1 ♂; NEPAL, “ NEPAL (Prov. Bagmati), Gul Bhanjyang , 2600 m, 6.IV.81, Löbl & Smetana” (both paratypes in MHNG) .

Diagnosis: Male. Length 3.01-3.15 mm. Antennomeres 9 slightly concave on mesal surface, antennomeres 10 with large projection at base. Metaventral processes moderately long, with pair of small triangular projection in addition to elongate processes. Protrochanters with slender ventral spine, profemora with blunt ventral spine, protibiae with large spine at apex; mesotrochanters with acute ventral spine, mesotibiae with small projection at apex. Median lobe of aedeagus symmetric, narrowed at apex; parameres short and symmetric. Female. May be identified only when associated with male.

Description and figures: Huang & Yin, 2019: 191; figs 19B, 21.