Giraffaenictus Maruyama, 2008

Wang, Cheng-Bin & Song, Xiao-Bin, 2025, First record of the genus Giraffaenictus Maruyama (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from China, with first description of the female of G. eguchii Maruyama, Zootaxa 5642 (6), pp. 542-550 : 543

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5642.6.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:412B0FFF-ACC9-4B9D-9CD3-006F501B3134

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15849796

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DC3AF859-FFBB-FF95-FF7C-CAE6FA97FC99

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Plazi

scientific name

Giraffaenictus Maruyama, 2008
status

 

Giraffaenictus Maruyama, 2008 View in CoL

Chinese common name: DZdzûDzã

[1 species; Oriental region]

Maruyama, 2008: 51 (description; 1 sp.);

Type species: Giraffaenictus eguchii Maruyama, 2008 View in CoL , by original designation.

Diagnosis. The genus Giraffaenictus can be separated from allied genera of Aenictoteratini by a combination of the following characters: body myrmecoid; head elongate, 1.6 times as long as wide; eyes prominent, situated around apical 1/6 of head; maxillary palpomere 2 generalized; elytra, together with meso- and metaventrites, globular; abdominal segment III cylindrical; segments V to VIII constitute globular ‘pseudogaster’, not dumbbell-like.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

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