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Male (Fig. 19B). Length 3.37–3.55. Head longer than wide, HL 0.76–0.80, HW 0.66–0.69; eyes each composed of about 40 facets. Antennal clubs as in Fig. 21A. Pronotum (Fig. 21B) about as long as wide, PL 0.71–0.75, PW 0.71–0.73, rounded at anterolateral margins. Elytra wider than long, EL 0.90–0.93, EW 1.32–1.37. Metaventral processes long, and broad (Fig. 21C). Protrochanters and profemora spinose at ventral margins (Fig. 21D), protibiae with distinct blunt apical spur (Fig. 21E); mesotrochanters with small ventral spines, mesofemora simple (Fig. 21F); metatrochanters and metafemora simple (Fig. 21G). Abdomen broad at base and narrowed apically, AL 1.00–1.07, AW 1.29–1.38. Sternite IX as in Fig. 21H. Aedeagus length 0.57, with asymmetric median lobe (Figs 21I–K).
Female. Similar to male in general; BL 3.21–3.31, HL 0.74–0.75, HW 0.61–0.62, PL 0.71–0.72, PW 0.69–0.71, EL 0.83–0.84, EW 1.31–1.32, AL 0.93–1.00, AW 1.36–1.37. Eyes each composed of about 25 facets. Antennae unmodified; metaventral processes absent.
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- Zi-Wei Yin, Peter Hlaváč, Li-Zhen Li
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- Yin Z, Hlaváč P, Li L (2013) Further studies on the Pselaphodes complex of genera from China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae) ZooKeys 275: 23–65
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- Zi-Wei Yin
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- Peter Hlaváč
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- Li-Zhen Li