Contributions to Entomology 72(1): 89-99, doi: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.72.e87239
On Orsunius V. Seven new species from Borneo and Vietnam (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Medonina)
Volker Assing‡‡ Unaffiliated, Hannover, Germany
Corresponding author: Volker Assing ( vassing.hann@t-online.de ) Academic editor: Thomas Schmitt © Volker Assing. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Assing V (2022) On Orsunius V. Seven new species from Borneo and Vietnam (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Medonina). Contributions to Entomology 72(1): 89-99. https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.72.e87239 |  |
Abstract
Seven species of Orsunius Assing, 2011 are described and illustrated, six of them from Borneo and one from Vietnam: Orsunius weigeli spec. nov. (North Vietnam), O. floreni spec. nov. (Malaysia: Sabah), O. flavoniger spec. nov. (Malaysia: Sabah), O. incitatus spec. nov. (Malaysia: Sabah), O. curvicollis spec. nov. (Malaysia: Sabah), O. tricolor spec. nov. (Malaysia: Sabah), and O. arboris spec. nov. (Malaysia: Sabah). The genus now includes 31 named extant species distributed in the southern East Palaearctic, the Oriental, and the northern Australian regions.
Keywords
Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae, Medonina, Orsunius, taxonomy, new species, Oriental region, Borneo, Vietnam