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
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Scydmaenus (Scydmaenus) vestitus ( Sharp, 1874 )
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Treatment

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