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A new species and an additional faunistic record of Scydmaenus Latreille (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Shanghai, China.

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A new member of Scydmaeninae, Scydmaenus shanghaicus Yin & Zhou, sp. nov., is described from material collected in Chongming and Jiading, Shanghai. This species is distinguished from its East Asian congeners primarily by the markedly slender aedeagus and
Zixu Yin, De-Yao Zhou, Qing Wang, JIA-YAO Hu   +3 more
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John Nietner collection of Sri Lankan Scydmaeninae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae).

Zootaxa
The Scydmaeninae collection of John Nietner was rediscovered in the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. The placement of each species is verified, all species are redescribed, and for each a lectotype is designated ...
P. Jałoszyński
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New material of Euroleptochromus tuberculatus Yin & Cai (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) in Eocene Baltic amber.

Zootaxa, 2023
The extinct members of the ant-like stone beetle supertribe Mastigitae are among the best studied groups of all fossil Scydmaeninae, and their evolutionary history can be traced from the latest Albian to the earliest Cenomanian through Miocene/Oligocene,
Xin-Hui Chen, Zi-Wei Yin
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Taxonomy of ‘Euconnus complex'. Part XXV. Afrotropical species misplaced in Magellanoconnus Franz transferred to Euconnus Thomson (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)

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Twenty-nine species of Afrotropical Stenichnini occurring in the Republic of South Africa and Zimbabwe and previously misplaced in Magellanoconnus Franz are transferred to Euconnus Thomson, subgenus Tetramelus Motschulsky.  
P. Jałoszyński
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An unexpected discovery: the first species of Paraneseuthia Franz from the Mascarene Islands (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae).

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Paraneseuthia disjuncta sp. nov. is described, based on a male collected in le aux Aigrettes, a small island off the south-east coast of Mauritius. Females of unknown species are also recorded from Runion.
P. Jałoszyński
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Two new species of the South African genus Stenomastigus Leleup (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae).

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Stenomastigus Leleup currently includes seventeen species and six subspecies, all endemic to South Africa. Two new species are described: S. mpumalanganus sp. nov., and S. bulirschi sp. nov., both based on specimens collected in Mpumalanga province.
P. Jałoszyński
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A new species and new records of Cephennomicrus Reitter on the island of Okinawa (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae).

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Thirteen nominal species of Cephennomicrus Reitter are currently known to occur in Japan, and five of them inhabit Okinawa-jima. One more Okinawan species, Cephennomicrus crypticus sp. n. is described. New distributional data are given for C. disjunctus (
P. Jałoszyński
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Two new species of Syndicus in southern India (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae).

Zootaxa, 2023
To date, five species of the Australo-Oriental genus Syndicus Motschulsky have been discovered in India, although the true distribution of one of them (the type species of the genus) remains unclear, as the only known specimen comes from "Indes ...
P. Jałoszyński
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Africaphes gen. nov., a new genus of Stenichnini in Burundi and Rwanda (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae).

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Africaphes gen. nov. is described to accommodate A. quadripunctatus sp. nov. (Burundi; type species of the genus) and A. bipunctatus sp. nov. (Rwanda).
P. Jałoszyński
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A new Cephennodes Reitter (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) of C. lustricollis group from East China.

Zootaxa, 2023
The C. lustricollis group of the scydmaenine genus Cephennodes Reitter was previously represented by three species distributed in northern Vietnam and China (Hong Kong and Guizhou). Here we describe a fourth member, Cephennodes gusu sp.
Ting Feng, Zi-Wei Yin
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