Scaphidium liui Tang & Li, 2010

Tang, Liang & Li, Li-Zhen, 2010, On Scaphidium grande-complex (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae), ZooKeys 43 (43), pp. 65-78 : 75-76

Scaphidium liui Tang & Li , sp. n.

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Figs 39–42

Type Material. Holotype: CHINA: Xizang: male, glued on a board with labels as follows: “ Xizang, Motuo County, Yadong , alt. 1250m, 25.V.1980, coll. Jin Gen-Tao & Wu Jian-Yi ” “NO. 24205538” “ Holotype / Scaphidium liui / Tang & Li” [red

Figures 3Ι–38. 3Ι–34 Scaphidium inflexitibiale 35–38 S. reni . 3Ι, 35 aedeagus 32, 36 internal sac in detail 33, 37 antenna 34, 38 male front leg in ventral view. Scales = 0.25 mm (3Ι, 32, 35, 36), scales = 1 mm (33, 34, 37, 38).

handwritten label] ( SEM). Paratypes. CHINA: Xizang: female, Motuo Couty, Kabu, 1070m, 14. V.1980, coll. Jin Gen-Tao & Wu Jian-Yi (NO. 24205537, SEM).

BL: 8.0– 9.1 mm, ED: 0.36–0.40 mm, PL / PW of male: 0.79, PL / PW of female: 0.76.

Extremely similar to S. reni sp. n., differing only in the following characters: body form slightly narrower; last antennal segment light brown in about apical third; apical portion of elytra indistinctly impressed; internal sac of aedeagus as in Figs 39, 40.

Distribution. China (Xizang).

Diagnoses. This new species was wrongly recorded as S. dureli Achard, 1922 in He et al., 2009 . Scaphidium dureli is now known only from the type locality “British