Abstract
A new Chinese species of the genus Linan Hlaváč, 2003, L.qiniangmontissp. nov., is described based on two male and three female specimens from sifted leaf litter samples at Qiniang Mountain, Shenzhen City, Guangdong. The species can be readily recognized and separated from all congeners based on the forms of the male antennae, the metaventral processes, and the aedeagus.
Highlights
The Oriental genus Linan Hlaváč, 2003 belonging to the ‘Pselaphodes complex’ of genera (Hlaváč 2003; Yin et al 2013a) is a small group containing 16 species distributed in China (16 spp.) and Thailand (1 sp.) (Hlaváč 2003; Yin et al 2011, 2013b; Yin and Li 2012, 2013; Zhang et al 2018)
The material used in this paper is housed in the Insect Collection of Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China (SNUC)
Male: antennal club almost simple, with antennomere IX slightly angulate at anteromesal corner; metaventral processes short and narrowing toward apex; protibiae with small denticle at apex; metacoxae with truncate, curved, ventral projection; aedeagus elongate, median lobe asymmetrically narrowed at apex
Summary
The Oriental genus Linan Hlaváč, 2003 belonging to the ‘Pselaphodes complex’ of genera (Hlaváč 2003; Yin et al 2013a) is a small group containing 16 species distributed in China (16 spp.) and Thailand (1 sp.) (Hlaváč 2003; Yin et al 2011, 2013b; Yin and Li 2012, 2013; Zhang et al 2018). The material used in this paper is housed in the Insect Collection of Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China (SNUC).
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