The genus <i>Saltisedes</i> (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae): redefinition, synonymic notes, and new species from the Oriental region

Abstract

Abstract The genus Saltisedes Kubota, 1944 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae: Tmesiphorini) is redefined and three new species are described and illustrated: S . hainanensis Yin and Nomura, new species (China), S . kojimai Nomura and Yin, new species (Japan), and S . yahiroi Nomura and Yin, new species (Malaysia). Saltisedes brunneus Kubota, 1944 (Japan), the only previously known species is redescribed. Stethotaphrus Newton and Chandler is placed as a junior synonym of Saltisedes , the placement results in the following new combinations: Saltisedes clavatus (Raffray, 1882), new combination , Saltisedes hamotoides (Schaufuss, 1882), new combination , Saltisedes javanicus (Raffray, 1882), new combination , Saltisedes longispina (Raffray, 1903), new combination , and Saltisedes weiri (Chandler, 2001), new combination . A list of known Saltisedes species is included and a key to the species from continental Asia and Japan is presented.