Four new species and additional records of Domene and Lathrobium from the Dayao Mountains, southern China

Abstract

Material of the paederine genera Domene Fauvel, 1873 and Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802 from the Dayao Mountains, southern China, is examined. Eight species are identified, three of them described previously and five undescribed. Four species are described and illustrated for the first time: Domene hei Peng & Li, sp. n., Lathrobium jinxiuense Peng & Li, sp. n., Lathrobium kuan Peng & Li, sp. n. and Lathrobium leii Peng & Li, sp. n. One probably undescribed species of Lathrobium remains unnamed.

Two new species and additional records of Domene from China and Vietnam (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae).

“…An additional species was described by Peng et al (2015). The Domene fauna of China and Taiwan was studied and revised by Koch (1939), Rougemont (1995), Assing & Feldmann (2014), Feldmann et al (2014), Assing (2015), and Peng et al (2015). Prior to the present study, 16 species had been recorded from China and Taiwan, all of them assigned to the subgenus Macromene Coiffait, 1982.…”

“…According to Assing (2015), the Palaearctic lathrobiine genus Domene Fauvel, 1873 was previously represented by 64 described species. An additional species was described by Peng et al (2015). The Domene fauna of China and Taiwan was studied and revised by Koch (1939), Rougemont (1995), Assing & Feldmann (2014), Feldmann et al (2014), Assing (2015), and Peng et al (2015).…”

new subgenus and a remarkable new species of Domene from South China, with additional records of the genus from China, Taiwan, and Vietnam (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)

“…The remaining species are distributed on the West Palaearctic (49 species) and East Palaearctic regions, including North Vietnam (34 species). Prior to the present study, the Domene fauna of China, Taiwan, and North Vietnam was represented by 25 species, all of them assigned to the subgenus Macromene Coiffait, 1982, with 21 species (two doubtful records omitted) reported from China (17 exclusive), two (both exclusive) from Taiwan, and two (one exclusive) from North Vietnam (Koch 1939, Rougemont 1995, Assing & Feldmann 2014, Assing 2015, 2016, Peng et al 2015, 2017. Material recently made available to me by Harald Schillhammer included five specimens of an undescribed species of Domene.…”