Pselaphodes loebli 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
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6983549
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FF3D36-FFA3-FFF2-FF06-FE32CF8A38D9
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Pselaphodes loebli Huang & Yin
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Pselaphodes loebli Huang & Yin View in CoL , sp. nov.

Type material (9 ex.): Holotype; MHNG- ENTO-43999 ; ♂; NEPAL, “NEPAL (Prov. Bagmati), Malemchi , 2800 m, 14.IV.81, Löbl & Smetana ” ( MHNG) . – Paratypes; MHNG-ENTO-44000 to 44007 ; 3 ♂, 5 ♀; NEPAL, same label data as holotype ( MHNG) .

Diagnosis: Male. Length 3.01-3.14 mm. Antennomeres IX with disc-shaped process at apex. Metaventral processes long, with pair of small projection in addition to long processes. Protrochanters with slender ventral spine, profemora with large, blunt ventral spine, protibiae with acute spine at apex; mesotrochanters with multiple ventral spines, mesotibiae with small tubercle at apex. Median lobe of aedeagus almost symmetric, narrowing apically; parameres broad dorso-ventrally. Female. May be identified only when associated with male.

Description and figures: Huang & Yin, 2019: 177; figs 10A, 11.