Six new species of Horniella Raffray from the Oriental region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

By

Zhang, Wen-Xuan
Hu, Fang-Shuo
Yin, Zi-Wei

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1042

Pages

1--22

Subjects

Ant-loving beetles , Asia , new record , new taxa , species list , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1042.66576

 

Abstract

The Oriental pselaphine genus Horniella Raffray, 1905 currently contains 29 species. In this paper, six new species are described: H. nantouensis Zhang, Hu & Yin, sp. nov. and H. taiwanensis Zhang, Hu & Yin, sp. nov. from Taiwan, China; H. bifurca Zhang & Yin, sp. nov. and H. haucki Zhang & Yin, sp. nov. from Thailand; H. khasiensis Zhang & Yin, sp. nov. from northern India; and H. sabahensis Zhang & Yin, sp. nov. from eastern Malaysia. In addition, H. aculeata Yin & Li, 2015, originally described from Yunnan, China, is newly recorded from Thailand.