Hesperus babai, 1915

Cai, Yu-Jie, Li, Yue-Yang & Tang, Liang, 2024, New species group and two new species of the genus Hesperus from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina), Zootaxa 5474 (5), pp. 550-562 : 560

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5474.5.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6B9033A2-DF32-43AB-A06F-FD9392BB718A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12730980

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Hesperus babai
status

 

Hesperus babai View in CoL group

Diagnosis: The group can be defined by the following characters: body broadly elongate, head trapezoid; antennae with antennomeres 6–10 distinctly transverse; abdominal tergite III with two basal lines, apical portion of male sternite IX with finer and short setae; apical portion of median lobe hatchet-like in lateral view, paramere without peg-setae.

Distribution and diversity: The group is hitherto known only from the islands of China: Hainan and Taiwan, and includes two species: H. babai Shibata, 1990 and H. pengi sp. n..

Shibata, Y. (1990) A new species of the genus Hesperus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Taiwan. Elytra, 18, 209 - 214.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

SubTribe

Philonthina