Quedius (Raphirus) impressiventris, sp. nov.

• Main Author: Smetana, Aleš
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Quedius; Quedius impressiventris; Canada; glacier*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5910934; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5910934

Quedius (Raphirus) impressiventris sp. nov. (Figs. 42–50) Type locality. People’s Republic of China: Sichuan, Gongga Shan, Lake above Camp 2, 2750 m. Type material. Holotype (male) and allotype (female): China: CHINA, Sichuan, Gongga Shan, Lake abv. Camp 2 2750 m, 24.VII. 1994 A. Smetana [C 20]. In the Smetana collection, Ottawa, Canada (to be eventually deposited in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Genève, Switzerland). Paratypes: China: [Sichuan]: same data as holotype [89] (ASC, MSC); same data as holotype, but 25. VII. 1994, A. Smetana [C 23], [33] (ASC); same data as holotype, but 27.VII. 1994, A. Smetana [C 27], [10] (ASC); Gongga Shan, above Camp 3, 3050 m, 22.VII. 1994, A. Smetana [C 18], [5] (ASC); Gongga Shan, Hailuogou, head of Glacier 1, 2850 m, 9. VII.1996, 29° 35 ʹN 10 ° 200 ʹE C 57 / collected by A. Smetana, J. Farkač and P. Kabátek [5] (ASC); Gongga Shan, Hailuogou, Lake above Camp 2, 2750 m, 29 ° 35 ʹN 10 ° 200 ʹE, 4.VII. 1998, A. Smetana [C 74] / 1998 China Expedition J. Farkač, D. Král, J. Schneider & A. Smetana [5] (ASC); Gongga Shan, Hailuogou, for. above Camp 2, 2800 m, 29 ° 35 ʹN 10 ° 200 ʹE, 5.VII. 1998, A. Smetana [C 75] / 1998 China Expedition J. Farkač, D. Král, J. Schneider & A. Smetana [2] (ASC); Gongga Shan, Hailuogou, in front of Glacier 1, 2850 m, 29 ° 35 ʹN 10200 ʹE, 7.VII. 1998, A. Smetana [C 76] / 1998 China Expedition J. Farkač, D. Král, J. Schneider & A. Smetana [42] (ASC, NMW); W-Sichuan (7) Daxue Shan, W Kangding 3003 ʹ 13 ʺN 10157 ʹ 11 ʺE 2700–2800 m, 24.05. 1997, M. Schülke [1] (MSC); W-Sichuan Ya’an Pref., Shimian Co. Daxue Shan, road betw. Anshunghang - Wanba, 20 km WSW Shimian, 1500 m, 9.VII. 1999, leg. A. Pütz [1] (APC). Description. In all external characters similar to Q. aureiventris BERNHAUER, 1915 (detailed description in SMETANA 1988: 250), and different mainly by the male sexual characters, particularly by the shape of the aedoeagus, and by the uniformly dark pubescence of the elytra (elytral pubescence in Q. aureiventris is a mixture of dark and ...