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21. Miobdelus gracilis Smetana, 2001 Smetana, 2001: 181 (Type locality: Sichuan: Gongga Shan massive, Hailuogou valley, lake above Camp 2, 29��35���N, 102��00���E, 2750 m); Smetana, 2004: 673 (Catalog of Palaearctic Region); Smetana, 2005a: 304 (new records in Ebian Yizu Zizixian); Smetana, 2005b: 573 (new records in Daliang Shan); Sch��lke & Smetana, 2015: 1085 (Catalog of Palaearctic Region). Distribution. Miobdelus gracilis is at present known from Sichuan Province.

Published as part of He, Liang & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2018, Taxonomy of the genus Miobdelus Sharp, 1889 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) and five new species from China, pp. 301-353 in Zootaxa 4377 (3) on page 340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4377.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1164438