16. Ocypus (Pseudocypus) inexspectatus Eppelsheim, 1887 (Figs. 16-1, 16-2) Eppelsheim, 1887: 422 (Ocypus; Type locality: Wladiwostok); Bernhauer & Schubert, 1914: 387 (Staphylinus; subgenus Ocypus; cited as inexpectatus; catalog); Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1395 (Staphylinus; cited as inexpectatus; catalog); J. Müller, 1943: 105 (Staphylinus; cited as inexpectatus; chracters; Siberia); Coiffait, 1974: 505 (Pseudocypus; cited as inexpectatus; characters; Siberia); Smetana & Davies, 2000: 44 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus); Herman, 2001: 3405 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; Catalog); Smetana, 2004: 677 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; Catalog of Palaearctic Region); Smetana, 2009b: 11 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; redescription); Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 1092 (Ocypus; subgenus Pseudocypus; Catalog of Palaearctic Region). Material examined. CHINA: Jilin Province: 3 males, 9 females, Changbai Shan, 740 m, pitfall traps, 7.VII.1993, coll. Peiyu Yu (IZ-CAS); 3 males, 3 females, Baihe County, ecology station, 760 m, mixed coniferous and broadleaved forest; pitfall traps, 5.VI.2004, coll. Jie Wu (IZ-CAS); Measurements. Body length: 13.5–16.8 mm. CL: 0.64; EL: 2.38; ELS: 1.05; EW: 2.83; HL: 2.58; HW: 2.35; PO: 0.79; PL: 2.78; PW: 2.81. Distribution. Before this study Ocypus inexspectatus was recorded only from the Russian Far East. This is the first time that this species is recorded from northeastern China (in Jilin Province).

Published as part of He, Liang & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2017, Taxonomy of the subgenus Pseudocypus Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) and eight new species from China, pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4339 (1) on pages 49-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4339.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1037681