Sphaeromacrops Schillhammer, 2001

Huang, Yujie, Tang, Liang, Zhou, Yu Feng & Wan, Xia, 2025, A new species of Sphaeromacrops Schillhammer, 2001 from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae), Zootaxa 5729 (3), pp. 485-488 : 488

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.3.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A3133BDA-CA0D-4399-8903-0FD8DFAC096F

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F62E87CA-C408-C03F-FF72-19042AC5FB9F

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Sphaeromacrops Schillhammer
status

 

Key to species of Sphaeromacrops Schillhammer View in CoL

1 Three outer antennal segments white........................................................... S. strigosifrons View in CoL

- Four or five outer antennal segments white................................................................. 2

2 Larger species, FL: 7.5–7.8 mm.......................................................................... 3

- Smaller species, FL: 5.4–7.0 mm......................................................................... 4

3 Head with indistinct cross-shaped impunctate portion between eyes, admedian impunctate patches of the pronotum very inconspicuous.............................................................................. S. nepalensis View in CoL

- Head without cross-shaped impunctate portion between eyes, admedian impunctate patches of the pronotum relatively distinct................................................................................... S. antennalis View in CoL

4 Admedian impunctate patches of the pronotum indistinct, abdominal tergites III and IV without dark tomentose patch.............................................................................................. S. yunnanensis View in CoL

- Admedian impunctate patches of the pronotum distinct, abdominal tergites III and IV with a pair of dark tomentose patches. 5

5 Front tarsi with segment V shorter than segments III and IV combined.................................. S. varicornis View in CoL

- Front tarsi with segment V longer than segments III and IV combined............................................ 6

6 The median portion of tergite III and IV without long,white setae, segment 6 entirely black................ S.guizhouensis

- The median portion of tergite III and IV have long,white setae, segment 6 black with broad reddish base......... S. gracilis View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

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