Orphnebius (Deroleptus) multimpressus ASSING, 2015

Assing, Volker, 2016, On some Lomechusini of the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (1), pp. 13-111 : 63

Orphnebius (Deroleptus) multimpressus ASSING, 2015

( Figs 293–295 )

Material examined: China: 1 ♂, Xishuangbanna, 23 km NW Jinghong , Na Ban env., 22°09'N, 100°40'E, 730 m, 23.V.2008, leg. Weigel ( NME); 1 ♂, Xishuangbanna, 37 km NW Jinghong , Guo Men Shan , 22°14'N, 100°36'E, 1080 m, open land, Malaise trap, 8.VII.2008, leg. Meng (cAss) .

Comment: The original description of this species is based on a unique female from Xishuangbanna ( ASSING 2015a). The previously unknown male sexual characters are illustrated in Figs 293–295.

Figures

Figs 277–295. Orphnebius biformis (277–278), O. retunsus (279–282), O. fodens (283–286), O. effeminatus (287–292), and O. multimpressus (293–295): median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (277–280, 283–284, 287–288, 293–294); paramere (281, 285, 289, 295); tergite VIII (282, 286, 290); median portion of tergite VIII (291); male tergites IX-X (292). Scale bars: 0.2 mm.

Figs 1–26. Antenna (1–21) and forebody (22–26) of Orphnebius spp. of the O. hauseri group: spinans (1, 23), cernens (2, 24), lunatus (3, 25), bakeri (4, 26), breviceps (5), extensus (6), serratus (7), integer (8), bicuspis, Laos (9), bicuspis, NE India (10), fusicollis (11), retunsus (12), fodens (13), opticus (14), dilatatus (15), fuscapicalis (16), grandicollis (17, 22), reductus (18), biformis, male (19), biformis, female (20), effeminatus (21). Scale bars: 22–26: 1.0 mm; 1–21: 0.5 mm.