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Batrisodes grossus
| Batrisodes grossus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Beetle |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Family: | Staphylinidae |
| Genus: | Batrisodes |
| Species: | B. grossus |
| Binomial name | |
| Batrisodes grossus Jiang, Ri-Xin & Zi-Wei Yin, 2017 | |
Diagnosis
The new species can be separated from other Chinese Batrisodes species by the following combination of characters: head dorsum, pronotum, and elytra roughly punctate, antennomeres III–V wider than VI–X, mesotrochanter, mesofemur, and mesotibia spinose, and slightly asymmetrical aedeagus expanded at the apex.
Description
Distribution
China
Biology
Ant host: Odontomachus All adults were collected from an Odontomachus colony in a tree hole.
REFERENCES
- Park, O. New or little known species of pselaphid beetles from southeastern United States. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, 31 (1): 54-100. (1956).
- Yin, Zi-Wei, Jia-Wei Shen & Li-Zhen Li. New species and new combinations of Asian Batrisodes Reitter (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), and synonymy of Batrisodellus Jeannel with Batrisodes. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 62 (1): 45-54. (2015).