Two new species of Astenus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from Mêdog, China

Xiao-Yan Li, Xin-Yue Shen, Tian-Yun Liu, Yi-Hang Jia, Hai-Feng Chen

Editorial summary

Two new species are described from Mêdog and placed in the context of a national checklist. The new focal taxa are indexed; the paper's thirty-species Chinese checklist is not reproduced as complete coverage.

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Year: 2026
Journal: Zootaxa
Volume: 5786
Issue: 1
Pages / article: 101–111
Publication date: 1 April 2026
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5786.1.12
Publisher: Official publisher page
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Library copy: Open PDF on Google Drive Xiao-Yan Li; Xin-Yue Shen; Tian-Yun Liu; Yi-Hang Jia; Hai-Feng Chen (2026). Two new species of Astenus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae) from Mêdog, China. Zootaxa 5786(1): 101–111. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5786.1.12. Source: https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5786.1.12. The PDF is provided unchanged. CC BY-NC 4.0
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Taxa and geography

Subfamily: Paederinae Fleming, 1821
Genus: Astenus Dejean, 1833
Species: Astenus medogensis X.-Y. Li, X.-Y. Shen, T.-Y. Liu, Y.-H. Jia & H.-F. Chen, 2026, Astenus yarangensis X.-Y. Li, X.-Y. Shen, T.-Y. Liu, Y.-H. Jia & H.-F. Chen, 2026

Country: China

Reported locality: Mêdog County, Xizang, China

Work type: taxonomic article, new species, national checklist

Keywords: Coleoptera, taxonomy, Paederinae, Astenus, new taxa, Mêdog