Review of the Anotylus cimicoides species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae)

Review of the genus platystethus mannerheim (coleoptera: staphylinidae: oxytelinae) in china.

Platystethus Mannerheim, currently comprising 53 species, is a widespread genus of the subfamily Oxytelinae in Northern Hemisphere. Platystethus species are most commonly found in dung and other decaying plant materials, occasionally on stream banks. In this paper, we reviewed all 12 species currently known from China. Three species are described as new to science: P. bucerus sp. nov. (from Xiz...

On Chinese species of Dianous group I (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Steninae)

Chinese species of Dianous group I are studied and three new species are described: Dianous fengtingaesp. n. from Hainan Province, Dianous zhujianqingisp. n. from Jiangxi and Guizhou Province, and Dianous huanghaoisp. n. from Yunnan Province. Dianous shan Rougemont and Dianous viridicupreus Rougemont are discovered from China for the first time. Their diagnostic characters are illustrated and a...

A review of the Tychobythinus algiricus species group from North Africa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae).

The species belonging to the Tychobythinus algiricus group are revised and the group is characterized and defined. Tychobythinus algiricus (Raffray, 1871) is redescribed, illustrated and its distribution and its synonymic framework discussed, establishing that Tychobythinus occidentalis Besuchet, 1962 is a junior synonym of Tychobythinus algiricus (syn. nov.). A key for species identification i...

Review of Solier's Mecorhopalus species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae).

Antoine Joseph Jean Solier, a French naturalist, described 53 species of Staphylinidae of the Chilean fauna, among them three species in a new genus Mecorhopalus (M. ater, M. bipustulatus and M. elongatus). Today these species are regarded as Aleochara atra, A. solieri and A. mutare , respectively. The objective of this study is to provide an updated description and nomenclatural status of thes...

Trogophloeus tripunctulatus Coiffait, 1981, a new synonym of Carpelimus insularis (Kraatz, 1858) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae).