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Diaulota oharai Ahn & Yoo 2018

  • 1. Department of Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Tokai University, Hokkaido, 005 - 8601, Japan. & Corresponding author
  • 2. Sounan, Minami-ku, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa, 252 - 0312, Japan.
  • 3. The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6 - 10 - 1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812 - 8581, Japan.

Description

Diaulota oharai Ahn & Yoo, 2018

[Japanese name: Oohara-tsutsumune-umi-hanekakushi]

(Fig. 13)

Diaulota oharai Ahn & Yoo in Song et al., 2018: 933 (original description; type locality: Hokkaido, Nemuro, Rausu, Tengu-iwa).

Material examined. Japan: Hokkaidô: 1 male, 1 female, 2 unsexed, Rausu-chô, Tengu-iwa, 4. IX. 2020, Y. Tasaku (KUM, cYT); 1 unsexed, Nemuro-shi, Bettôga, Tengu-iwa, 2. VII. 2021, K. Haga (KUM).

Diagnosis. It is distinguished from other species of the genus by the following combination of characteristics: body bicolored, head and pronotum reddish brown, abdomen black (Figs. 13A & B); infraorbital carina long, reaching to eye; tarsal formula 4-4-5.

Habitat. This species was collected from rock crevices on rocky shores rich in seaweed.

Distribution. Japan: eastern Hokkaidô.

Notes

Published as part of Tasaku, Yuto, Ono, Hiroki & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2023, Review of the intertidal rove beetle tribe Liparocephalini Fenyes (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Japan, pp. 251-296 in Zootaxa 5383 (3) on page 269, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5383.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10361564

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
KUM , KUM, VII
Event date
2020-09-04
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Diaulota
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ahn & Yoo
Species
oharai
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2020-09-04
Taxonomic concept label
Diaulota oharai Ahn, 2018 sec. Tasaku, Ono & Maruyama, 2023

References

  • Song, J. - H., Yoo, I. - S. & Ahn, K. - J. (2018) Discovery of two new Diaulota Casey species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) from coastal Hokkaido, Japan based on morphological and molecular characters. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 21, 930 - 936. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. aspen. 2018.07.002