taxonID	type	description	language	source
4D798B20CC44559469A67EB28E3128E4.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Body length slightly less than 2.5 mm. Male: antennal club almost simple, with antennomere IX slightly angulate at anteromesal corner; metaventral processes short and narrowing toward apex; protibiae with small denticle at apex; metacoxae with truncate, curved, ventral projection; aedeagus elongate, median lobe asymmetrically narrowed at apex. Female: identifiable only when in association with a male.	en	Zhao, Qing-Hao, Xu, Wang, Yin, Zi-Wei (2019): A new species of Linan Hlavacˇ (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from Shenzhen, China. ZooKeys 859: 63-68, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.35465, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.35465
4D798B20CC44559469A67EB28E3128E4.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 1 A). Body length (combined length of head, pronotum, elytra, and abdomen) 2.32 - 2.33 mm. Head longer than wide, length from clypeal anterior margin to head base 0.52 - 0.54 mm, width across eyes 0.48 - 0.49 mm; eyes small, each composed of ca. 23 facets. Antennae elongate, 1.78 - 1.79 mm long, scape elongate, ca. 3.5 times as long as wide, antennomeres 2 - 8 each sub-moniliform, of similar width, antennal club (Fig. 2 A) formed by antennomeres 9 - 11, antennomere 9 much longer than wide, broadening from base to apex, angulate at anteromesal corner (Fig. 2 A, indicated by arrow), antennomere 10 slightly transverse, antennomere 11 truncate and broadest at base and narrowing apically, both antennomeres 10 and 11 simple. Pronotum (Fig. 2 B) approximately as long as wide, with rounded lateral margins, length along midline 0.49 - 0.51 mm, maximum width 0.49 - 0.52 mm. Elytra strongly transverse, length along suture 0.56 - 0.57 mm, maximum width 0.85 - 0.88 mm. Metaventral processes (Fig. 2 C) short, narrowing apically. Protrochanters and profemora (Fig. 2 D) simple, protibiae (Fig. 2 E) with small but distinct denticle at apex; mesotrochanters, mesofemora, and mesotibiae (Fig. 2 F) simple; metacoxae (Fig. 2 G) with truncate curved projection on ventral margin; metatrochanters, metafemora, and metatibiae simple. Abdomen approximately as wide as elytra, length of dorsally visible part along midline 0.74 - 0.77 mm, maximum width 0.86 - 0.87 mm; tergite 1 (IV) more than twice as long as tergite 2 (V); sternite 7 (IX) (Fig. 2 H) semi-membranous, elongate. Length of aedeagus (Fig. 2 I-K) 0.38 - 0.40 mm; median lobe asymmetrical dorso-ventrally, narrowing apically with pointed apex; elongate parameres slightly exceeding apex of median lobe, with rounded apices; endophallus with one broad, rounded triangular sclerite, and one much shorter, elongate sclerite forked at apex. Female. Similar to male in general morphology, with slightly shorter antennae and smaller eyes; antennae and legs simple; lacking metaventral processes. Eyes each composed of approximately 18 facets. Measurements (as of male): Body length 2.33 - 2.44 mm, length / width of head 0.53 - 0.55 / 0.49 - 0.51 mm, length of antennae 1.63 - 1.70 mm, length / width of pronotum 0.50 - 0.51 / 0.51 mm, length / width of elytra 0.57 / 0.89 - 0.91 mm, length / width of abdomen 0.72 - 0.81 / 0.92 - 0.93 mm.	en	Zhao, Qing-Hao, Xu, Wang, Yin, Zi-Wei (2019): A new species of Linan Hlavacˇ (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from Shenzhen, China. ZooKeys 859: 63-68, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.35465, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.35465
4D798B20CC44559469A67EB28E3128E4.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China: Guangdong.	en	Zhao, Qing-Hao, Xu, Wang, Yin, Zi-Wei (2019): A new species of Linan Hlavacˇ (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from Shenzhen, China. ZooKeys 859: 63-68, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.35465, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.35465
4D798B20CC44559469A67EB28E3128E4.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The new species epithet refers to the type locality of the new species, Qiniang Mountain.	en	Zhao, Qing-Hao, Xu, Wang, Yin, Zi-Wei (2019): A new species of Linan Hlavacˇ (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) from Shenzhen, China. ZooKeys 859: 63-68, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.35465, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.859.35465
