Bellenden Chandler, 2001

Yin, Zi-Wei & Jiang, Ri-Xin, 2016, Taxonomic notes on the genus Bellenden Chandler (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), ZooKeys 638, pp. 27-32 : 28

Bellenden Chandler, 2001

Bellenden Chandler, 2001: 504; Kurbatov 2006: 361 (revision). Type species. Bellenden monteithi Chandler.

Buobellenden Yin & Nomura, 2009 (in: Yin et al. 2009: 65); syn. n. Type species. Buobellenden jingyuanensis Yin & Nomura.

Comments.

Buobellenden was described from a single male collected from the northwestern Chinese province of Ningxia ( Yin et al. 2009). The authors compared the type species Buobellenden jingyuanensis with the Australian Bellenden monteithi , and separated these two genera based on the aedeagal characters. However, the earlier published revision of Bellenden by Kurbatov (2006) was not cited, in which three new Bellenden species were described from the alpine regions in central China. Kurbatov in his work specifically discussed the morphological differences between the Bellenden species from China and Australia, and concluded that creation of a new generic taxon for the Chinese Bellenden species is unjustified. After a re-examination of the type material of Buobellenden , we agree with Kurbatov’s opinion, and here place Buobellenden as a junior synonym of Bellenden .