Fourteen new species of the genus Gabrius Stephens, 1829 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina) from China

Abstract

The genus Gabrius Stephens, 1829 is a large and relatively well studied group in the subtribe Philonthina. In this paper, fourteen new species of the genus Gabrius from China are described and illustrated: G. breviantennatus sp. n. from Hubei; G. instrigatus sp. n. from Tibet; G. hong sp. n. from Ningxia and Shaanxi; G. zhaoi sp. n. from Ningxia; G. disparatus sp. n. from Beijing; G. extraneus sp. n. from Beijing and Shanxi; G. leigongshanus sp. n. from Guizhou and Hubei; G. batangensis sp. n., G. brevistrigatus sp. n., G. curvus sp. n., G. dentatus sp. n., G. nasiformis sp. n. and G. yaanensis sp. n. from Sichuan and G. tortilis sp. n. from Shaanxi, Ningxia, Sichuan, Yunnan and Hubei. Thus, a total of 43 species of the genus Gabrius are known from China.

Revision and phylogenetic assessment of the rove beetle genus Pseudohesperus Hayashi, with broad reference to the subtribe Philonthina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini)

“…In the last decade, a number of species and genera have been described in the subtribe Philonthina (Schillhammer, 2002, 2005; Schillhammer et al ., 2007; Hayashi, 2008; Hromadka, 2009; Li & Zhou, 2010a,b,c,d; Li, Schillhammer & Zhou, 2010; Li, Zhou & Schillhammer, 2010); these faunistic discoveries contributed valuable data and may help to solve the problem with phylogenetic analyses. An attempt to find more new taxa of Philonthina is required and of great significance.…”