A new species of Omalium Gravenhorst, 1802 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) closely resembling O. japonicum Sharp, 1874, discovered in sympatry in Kyushu, Japan
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Maruyama, Okumura and Hashizume describe Omalium yasuhikoi from western Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and compare it with the sympatric Omalium japonicum. The new species is distinguished by the male genitalia and metaventrite punctation; most of the type series was obtained with urea traps.
Source basis: Official Zootaxa article record, abstract and open Version of Record.
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Country: Japan
Reported localities: Taku, Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, Ogiura, Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, Kusaba, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, Ito Campus, Kuwabara, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan
Work type: taxonomy, new species, comparative morphology, natural history
Keywords: aedeagus, metaventrite, morphology, paddy fields, sympatry, taxonomy, urea trap
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