Indomorphus spinosus nov.sp. M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: Holotype: Hubei, Houhe conv., Wufeng coun., Li-Zhen Li 30.IV.2004 (SNUC); paratypes: same data, 1 (SNUC), 1 (cB). D e s c r i p t i o n: Length of body about 7 mm; from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra: 4,5 mm. Body without micro-sculpture, apart transverse micro-striation on 5°-6° visible abdominal segments. Black with reddish black abdomen; antennae and legs brown dark. Head ovoidal, narrow anteriorly, with largely rounded posterior angles. Eyes very small but very prominent. Surface of head with few, spaced and not wide punctures, apart a large median strip. Pronotum a little longer and narrower than head, oblong and narrow, with very oblique anterior margins and almost obsolete anterior angles, and with sinuate sides. Surface with dorsal series of 7 fine punctures and lateral series of 7-8 wider punctures. Elytra large, sub-rectangular, very longer and wider than pronotum, with sub-rectilinear sides and rounded humeral angles. Surface with very fine, dense punctures, arranged in numerous, dense series, with reclined yellow setae. Abdomen with fine and dense puncturation on the sides. Sixt visible abdominal tergite of particular shape (Fig. 96); 6° visible abdominal sternite as in Fig. 97. Male genital segment with asymmetrical pleurae, the left with a median, acute potrusion, with modified, small tergite (Fig. 98); sternite of the same as in Fig. 99. Aedeagus (Fig. 100) 2,2 mm long, with asymmetrical, large pseudoparameres; inner sac with very numerous, big spines. E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet refers to the Latin spinosus- a- um (with spines), in relation to the inner sac of aedeagus. G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: The species is known only from the type localitiy, in Hubei.

Published as part of Bordoni, A., 2013, New data on the Xantholinini from China. 24. New genus, new species and new records of the Shanghai Normal University collection (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 244 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae, pp. 1745-1797 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2) on page 1763, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10273196