Revision of the genus Trichophya from Taiwan, with description of three new species (Staphylinidae: Trichophyinae)

Fang-Shuo Hu, Bin-Hong Ho, Martin Fikáček

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Hu, Ho and Fikáček revise the Taiwanese Trichophya fauna, redescribing T. kurosawai and adding T. keris, T. maui and T. thor as new species. The paper provides a key to the four species, illustrations of habitus and male genitalia, and an associated open dataset for barcode and image files.

Source basis: Official Taiwania article record, Version of Record PDF and linked Zenodo dataset.

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Taxa and geography

Biogeographic region: Oriental region

Country: Taiwan

Reported localities: Alishan Mountains, Taiwan, Central Mountain Range, Taiwan, Datong Township, Yilan, Taiwan, West of Taitung City, Taiwan

Work type: taxonomic revision, redescription, new species, identification key, DNA barcoding

Keywords: leaf litter fauna, Oriental region, Palaearctic-Oriental transition zone, rove beetle, taxonomy