New species and additional records of Lomechusini from the Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)

Abstract

Ten species of Palaearctic Lomechusini are described and illustrated: Pella kirgisica n. sp. (Kyrgyzstan), P. puetzi n. sp. (China: Yunnan), Tetrabothrus puetzi n. sp. (China: Yunnan), Amaurodera schuelkei n. sp. (China: Yunnan), Orphnebius paucisetosus n. sp. (eastern Nepal), O. scissus n. sp. (China: Yunnan), O. truncus n. sp. (China: Yunnan), O. tricuspis n. sp. (China: Yunnan), Lomechusa gerardiphila n. sp. (Spain: Andalucía), and Zyras (Termidonia) viti n. sp. (Taiwan). The previously unknown sexual characters of Orphnebius oculatus Coiffait, 1982 are described and illustrated. The following synonymies are proposed: Peltodonia Bernhauer, 1936, n. stat. = Chaetosogonocephus Pace, 1987, n. syn.; Peltodonia bodemeyeri (Bernhauer, 1936) = Chaetosogonocephus adventicius Assing, 2004, n. syn. The species previously attributed to Chaetosogonocephus are moved to Peltodonia. The distribution of P. bodemeyeri is mapped. Additional records of various Palaearctic Lomechusini species are reported, among them several new country records.