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Male (Fig. 1C). Length 3.41–3.75. Head slightly longer than wide, HL 0.71–0.72, HW 0.65–0.68; eyes each composed of about 45 facets. Antennal clubs as in Fig. 4A. Pronotum (Fig. 4B) about as long as wide, PL 0.70–0.73, PW 0.65–0.71, with roundly angulate lateral margins. Elytra wider than long, EL 0.87–0.93, EW 1.38–1.40. Metaventral processes short, narrowed from base toward apex (Fig. 4C). Protrochanters with small ventral spine, profemora with large thick ventral spine (Fig. 4D); mesotrochanters (Fig. 4E) with small spine at ventral margin, mesotibiae (Fig. 4F) with short blunt apical tubercle; metatrochanters and metafemora (Fig. 4G) simple. Abdomen broad at base and narrowed apically, AL 1.13–1.37, AW 1.35–1.43. Sternite IX as in Fig. 4H. Aedeagus length 0.67, with broad median lobe elongate nearly symmetric (Figs 3I–K).
Female. Similar to male in general; BL 3.36, HL 0.71, HW 0.64, PL 0.66, PW 0.64, EL 0.74, EW 1.21, AL 1.25, 1.43. Eyes each composed of about 35 facets. Antennae lacking modification; metaventral processes absent.
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- Zi-Wei Yin, Li-Zhen Li
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- Yin Z, Li L (2012) Notes on Michael Schülke’s pselaphine collections from China. – Tyrini. I. genera Labomimus Sharp, Linan Hlaváč and Pselaphodes Westwood (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) ZooKeys 251: 83–118
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- Zi-Wei Yin
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- Li-Zhen Li