Two new species of the myrmecophilous genus Lomechusoides (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Lomechusini) from Sichuan, China

Abstract

*[The myrmecophilous staphylinid beetles, Lomechusoides uenoi sp.nov. & L. schneideri sp.nov. are described from Sichuan, China. They were collected from nests of Formica fusca Linneaus, 1758 (F. fusca group) & Myrmica aff. ruginodis Nylander, 1846, respectively. This is the first record of Myrmica as a host of this genus. Lomechusoides uenoi is closely similar to Lomechusoides throngensis (Sawada, 1994), but easily distinguished by the different states of labial palpus, pronotum, & aedeagus. Lomechusoides schneideri is easily distinguished from the other known species by the long quadrate head.]