Gastrobothrus platynotus (Broun, 1893), 2020

Shen, Jia-Wei & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2020, Revision of Eupines King of New Zealand (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Goniaceritae), Zootaxa 4777 (1), pp. 1-84 : 82

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4777.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BF4149EF-478F-4FE4-BE7B-B497272F99C0
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3844464
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C0438794-D813-FFFE-FF01-7691FC08FC45
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Gastrobothrus platynotus (Broun, 1893)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Gastrobothrus platynotus (Broun, 1893) NEW COMBINATION

(Figs. 77–78 in Shen and Leschen, 2019)

Bryaxis platynota Broun, 1893a: 1338 . Raffray, 1904: 244.

Eupines platynota View in CoL : combination by Hudson 1923: 364. Hudson 1934: 183.

Eupines ( Eupines) platynota View in CoL : subgeneric assignment by Nomura and Leschen 2006: 254. Maddison 2010: 417; Shen and Leschen 2019: 272 View Cited Treatment .

Type locality: [HB] Mangawhare, Northern Wairoa.

Type depository: BMNH HT ♂ .

Comments: The holotype of E. ( E.) platynota has strongly narrowed elytral bases and the glabrous pronotum lacking median antebasal fovea and antebasal sulcus that are consistent with members of the genus Gastrobothrus . Here we formally transfer this species from Eupines to Gastrobothrus .