Taxonomic notes on the genus Pseudoligota Cameron (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from Japan

Hashizume T 1 , Yamamoto S 2 , Maruyama M 3

Affiliations 

  • 1 1Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 819-0395 . [email protected]
  • 2 2The Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido University, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810 Japan. . [email protected]
  • 3 3The Kyushu University Museum, Fukuoka, 812-8581 Japan. . [email protected]
Zootaxa, 2023 Jan 04;5227(1):100-108.
PMID: 37044492 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5227.1.4

Abstract

The genus Pseudoligota Cameron, 1920 is discovered in Japan for the first time, resulting in two taxonomic changes: a new combination P. antennata (Bernhauer, 1907), comb. nov., and a new species P. nozakii Hashizume, Yamamoto & Maruyama, sp. nov. from Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The former species has long been placed in the genus Oligota Mannerheim, 1830. This is the fourth genus in the subtribe Gyrophaenina known from Japan. The species P. affinis Cameron, 1939 from India and Peninsular Malaysia is placed as a junior synonym of P. antennata.

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