Scydmaenus (Scydmaenus) vestitus ( Sharp, 1874 )

Yin, Zi-Wei, Zhou, De-Yao, Wang, Qing & Hu, Jia-Yao, 2025, A new species and an additional faunistic record of Scydmaenus Latreille (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Shanghai, China, Zootaxa 5659 (1), pp. 127-132 : 130

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5659.1.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FFF6FBF8-3D13-494F-9C6B-BC0DFFB6C7F5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15823348

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E587A6-FFED-FFF3-31FF-EC88FC00F81D

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Plazi

scientific name

Scydmaenus (Scydmaenus) vestitus ( Sharp, 1874 )
status

 

Scydmaenus (Scydmaenus) vestitus ( Sharp, 1874) View in CoL

Eumicrus vestitus Sharp, 1874: 126 ; 1886: 49. Type locality: Japan .

Scydmaenus (Scydmaenus) vestitus View in CoL ; Reitter 1913: 267; Franz 1985: 109; Schülke & Smetana 2015: 898; O’Keefe & Li, J.-K. 1999: 160.

Scydmaenus kunmingensis Franz, 1988: 24 View in CoL ; O’Keefe & Li 1999: 160; Jałoszyński 2021: 358 View Cited Treatment . Type locality: Yünnan, Kunming. (synonymized in Yin & Zhou 2025: 537)

Material examined. 5 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, ‘ China: Shanghai, Changning, Shanghai Zoo , 31.198056°N, 121.354964°E, alt. 10 m, 02.x.2018, X.-B. Song leg., 上ả动ń园 Ệâėī ’ ( SNUC) GoogleMaps

Distribution. China: Shanghai, Taiwan, Sichuan, Yunnan; Japan: Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands; South Korea. New record for Shanghai.

Remarks. This well-recognized species is widely distributed in East Asia. Males are readily distinguishable by their large body size (exceeding 2.5 mm), modified protarsi and metaventrite, elongate apical spines of the mesotibiae, and the distinctive form of the aedeagus (see Yin & Zhou 2025).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

SubFamily

Scydmaeninae

Genus

Scydmaenus

Loc

Scydmaenus (Scydmaenus) vestitus ( Sharp, 1874 )

Yin, Zi-Wei, Zhou, De-Yao, Wang, Qing & Hu, Jia-Yao 2025
2025
Loc

Scydmaenus kunmingensis

Yin, Z. - W. & Zhou, D. - Y. 2025: 537
Jaloszynski, P. 2021: 358
O'Keefe, S. T. & Li, J. - K. 1999: 160
Franz, H. 1988: 24
1988
Loc

Scydmaenus (Scydmaenus) vestitus

Schulke, M. & Smetana, A. 2015: 898
Franz, H. 1985: 109
Reitter, E. 1913: 267
1913
Loc

Eumicrus vestitus

Sharp, D. 1874: 126
1874
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