Liparocephalus litoralis Kirschenblatt 1938 ...

• Main Authors: Tasaku, Yuto, Ono, Hiroki, Maruyama, Munetoshi
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Liparocephalus; Liparocephalus litoralis; Kum; Pacific; Bering Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10361599; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10361599

Liparocephalus litoralis Kirschenblatt, 1938 [Japanese name: Hotei-umi-hanekakushi] (Figs. 2B; 3A, D & E) Liparocephalus litoralis Kirschenblatt, 1938: 532 (original description; type locality: Bering Island (Komandor Islands); Maruyama & Ahn, 2000: 568 (redescription); Haga, 2022: 216 (additional records; biological notes). Material examined. Japan: Hokkaidô: 1 female, 2 unsexed, Hamanaka-chô, Mochirippu, 12. IX. 1999, M. Maruyama (KUM); 5 males, 5 females, 67 unsexed, ditto, 28. IX. 2000, M. Maruyama (KUM, cYT); 1 male, 4 females, Nemuro-shi, Bettôga, Tengu-iwa, 2. VII. 2021, K. Haga (KUM, cYT). Diagnosis. This species can be easily distinguished from all other Japanese species of the tribe Liparocephalini by its large, broad, and blackish body (Fig. 3A). This species is similar to L. brevipennis Mäklin, 1853 and L. humblei Klimaszewski, 2021 known from the eastern Pacific coast, but distinguished from them by the genital shape (see, Klimaszewski et al., 2021). These species have no clear sexual ... : Published as part of Tasaku, Yuto, Ono, Hiroki & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2023, Review of the intertidal rove beetle tribe Liparocephalini Fenyes (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Japan, pp. 251-296 in Zootaxa 5383 (3) on page 256, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10361564 ...