A taxonomic study of Korean Aloconota Thomson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) with descriptions of five new species

ABSTRACT

A taxonomic study of Korean species of the Geostibine genus Aloconota is presented. The genus is represented in Korea by seven species including five new species described in this study, namely, Aloconota brunnea Lee and Ahn, sp. nov., Aloconota hydrosmectoides Lee and Ahn, sp. nov., Aloconota impressa Lee and Ahn, sp. nov., Aloconota parviocularis Lee and Ahn, sp. nov. and Aloconota tuberculata Lee and Ahn, sp. nov. A key to species, descriptions and illustrations of habitus and diagnostic characters are provided for all seven species.

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KEYWORDS:

• Coleoptera
• Staphylinidae
• Aleocharinae
• Geostibini
• Aloconota
• Korea

Acknowledgements

We thank Margaret Thayer (FMNH, Chicago), Grzegorz Paśnik (ISEA, Kraków), Johannes Frisch (MNHB, Berlin) and Roger Booth (NHM, London) for providing valuable specimens. We are grateful to J.-C. Paik (Suncheon National University, Suncheon) for his suggestion on the nomenclature of the new species.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR); the Ministry of Environment (MOE) of the Republic of Korea; [NIBR201701203].